Lou Dobbs has taped a one-hour "Democracy At Risk" special to be aired at various times on CNN this coming Sunday. Be sure to tune in. / The Washington Post has found that new system boards were installed in Diebold voting machines used in Maryland. These modifications were made in several thousand machines in 2005. The modification was meant to fix a problem with touch-screen freezes. The WaPo investigation seems to reveal that the modification was made without the knowledge of State Board of Elections members. /
The cutoff of names by Hart machines in Texas is frustrating for election officials. "I don't like it. We've been asking the vendor to address this issue for a couple of years now," Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said. The names are cut off because of the size of the letters onscreen, which "causes longer names to truncate," Hart InterCivic Vice President Phillip Braithwaite said. / “It’s really terrible,” said Robert J. Antonetti Sr., elections administrator in Prince George’s Co Maryland about the late delivery of paper ballots by Diebold. “Time is running out. It’s going to deny people the right to vote.” I ask again; is Diebold doing to Maryland what they did to Kevin Shelley and Bruce Funk and attempted to do to Ion Sancho?
NAtional: Stand Up, Be Counted: Grassroots Docs Warn of Flawed Electronic Voting Systems
http://www.indiewire.com/movies/2006/10/stand_up_be_cou.html
NAtional: New Voting Systems Face Midterm Exam
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116182342343304102-B0bNsnwdBLRf3KupmKiKCbcN0hY_20061124.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
NAtional: Opinion – Paul DeGregorio - Your vote will count
Hype over hacking shouldn't shatter confidence
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061026/OPINION05/610260344/1006/OPINION
NAtional: Reistered voter list errors might impede some
Act requires state registration lists' accuracy by Nov. 7
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/15848698.htm
NAtional: Omaha prints own ballots as others wait
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/15854518.htm
NAtional: How to steal an election by hacking the vote
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars
NAtional: Penetrating The Voting Vortex
http://www.indypendent.org/?p=598
AR: Paper Or Touch-Screen? Ark. Voters Go Paper In Early Voting
http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/tristate/story.aspx?content_id=3DD018C4-0EA3-40F7-AD84-F77963DC9ED2
AR: Washington County - Voting machines to get fix after audit trail prints right vote for the wrong district
http://nwanews.com/nwat/News/46437/
AZ: Opinion – Bill Bradbury - Guest opinion: Vote by Mail best way to safeguard democracy
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/opinion/30478.php
CA: Los Angeles County - L.A. County to audit touch-voting machines
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4551357
CA: Los Angeles County - County to audit touch-screen voting systems
Handful to be tested in wake of concerns about accuracy
http://dailynews.com/news/ci_4550897
CA: San Mateo County - Missing: Absentee ballots
County Elections Office a week behind; A toll-free number has been set up for voters' missing ballots
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/ci_4552405
CA: Ventura County - Some in Ojai Valley receive wrong ballots
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/oj/article/0,1375,VCS_168_5094596,00.html
CO: CBS4 Investigates Security Procedures For Voters
http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_298223407.html
FL: Florida's elections chief defends bid for Negron-Foley poll signs
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-celxcobb26oct26,0,7321985..story?coll=sfla-news-broward
FL: Early voters find few problems
Thousands of voters in South Florida have already cast their ballots during early voting this week. So far, only minor machine problems were reported in Broward.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15849795.htm
FL: Broward County - Thousands in South Florida cast early ballots
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/15848264.htm
FL: Volusia County - Democratic poll watchers outnumber Republican oberservers
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD02102606.htm
IL: PFAW Foundation Recruits Thousands of Tech-Savvy College Students to Ensure Voting in Chicago and Cook County Runs Smoothly on Election Day
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22931
MD: Md. Voting Machines Had Part Defect
Key Component Was Replaced in Touch-Screen Units After Repeated 'Freezes'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501907.html
MD: CNN's Lou Dobbs: Maryland Trains Poll Workers So Diebold Can't Blame Them For Diebold's Failures
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3666
MD: Diebold Quietly Repaired Vote Machines
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/10/26/ap3124069.html
MD: Keeping watch on Election Day
http://www.gazette.net/stories/102606/princou172217_31943.shtml
MD: Diebold machine glitch fixed quietly
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-te.md.voting26oct26,0,990206.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
MD: WaPo Reveals Hidden Work by Diebold in Maryland as Thousands of System Boards Were Replaced in Secret!
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3670
MD: Columnist - Diebold's secret code keeps voters in the dark
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-bz.pl.himowitz26oct26,0,6000921.column?coll=bal-local-headlines
MD: Late paper ballots creating problems
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2006/10_26-02/GOV
NJ: Essex County - Awaiting the exit poll on electronic voting machines
http://www.montclairtimes.com/page.php?page=13281
NY: Voting machines alarm democracy
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=529045&category=OPINION&newsdate=10/26/2006
NY: Board Of Elections Tests Next Generation Voting Machines
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=3&aid=63802
NY: Krueger Cautions State Against Rushing Into Compliance
http://www.amhersttimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3174&Itemid=27
OH: Absentee ballot counting has to wait until Nov. 7
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=315530&Category=13
OH: Voting machines, new ID rule for Ohio
http://www.timesgazette.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=140993&TM=27073.74
OH: Tuscarawas County - Voter SS numbers exposed
http://www.timesreporter.com/index.php?ID=60095&r=0
PA: Centre County – Commissioner Exarchos warning: Don't tamper with voting machines
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/15855699.htm
PA: Dauphin County - New voting machines spur battle over write-ins
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1161830407181840.xml&coll=1
TX: Voting machines chop off candidates' names
Computer glitch affects eSlate machines used in Travis, Hays counties; error cannot be fixed by Nov. 7.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/10/26/26glitch.html
TX: Hart Intercivic Voting Machine Screen Displays in Texas Fail Like The Ones In Virginia
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3671
UT: Utah's New Election Audit and Recount Procedures Found Lacking by Utah's Desert Greens Party and Utah Count Votes
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_press_re_061026_utah_s_new_election_.htm
UT: Some Question Security of E-Voting Machines
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=594704
UT: Salt Lake County - Expect delays on Election Day
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650201880,00.html
VA: James H. 'Jim' who?
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/wb/xp-88659
VA: F.C. Election Chief Says Problem With Voting Machines Identified a Year Ago
http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=422&Itemid=33
VA: Lawmakers Pushing for Paper Trail As Backup
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501918.html
WV: Kanawha County - Votes to be counted by precinct
http://www.dailymail.com/story/News/+/2006102617/Votes+to+be+counted+by+precinct/
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