'Daily Voting News' For November 03, 2007

Today the Daytona Beach News Journal reports that 25,000 Diebold optical-scan machines used across the country may have a defect that causes failures in the memory cards. Apparently Diebold has known this problem for sometime. One election official claims that she THINKS no votes have been lost. Diebold says that around one percent of the memory cards are affected but the News Journal has found that some counties have reported over nine percent failure. There will be an election in Florida next week but the state is not requiring any beefed-up audits to ensure there are no lost votes. Diebold says they will inspect machines outside of Florida on a “case by case basis”. In other words they are not going to warn their customers and they won’t inspect anything unless a customer forces their hand. This is just another reason to recall all voting devices qualified by NASED and inspected by ITAs paid by the vendors to look the other way. It is time to “Rage against the machines”.

 

CT: Voting rules rankle tense city registrars

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18985117&BRD=1641&PAG=461&dept_id=594835&rfi=6

 

FL: Voting Out E-Voting Machines

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1680451,00.html

 

FL: Volusia County - Survey contradicts vote machine firm's failure rate claim

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD05POL110307.htm

 

GA: Statesboro - Our Views: Citizens group should withdraw challenges to voter registrations

http://www.statesboroherald.com/news/article/6416/

 

GA: Statesboro - GSU Student Voting Debate

http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2007-11-01-0032.html

 

IN: Towns aim to balance costs, voters' rights to equipment

http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071103/NEWS01/711030301/1008

 

IN: Hamilton County - Election Board seeks consistency in absentee ballot count

http://www.county29.net/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7647&Itemid=230

 

PA: Fayette County - Judge names monitors at Brownsville polls

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/fayette/s_536089.html

 

PA: Luzerne County - Absentee procedures questioned

Attorney: County is violating election code by not counting those ballots at polling place.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071103_03elect_jen_ART.html

 

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