'Daily Voting News' For November 08, 2007 
by John Gideon

 

Sequoia has now been sold, yet again. This time the new owners are the present management team. Who is really behind the purchase and what was the final purchase price? Smartmatic paid $16M for the company which represented a $7M loss for its previous owner. Also, now that the Venezuelans are not involved who is going to do all of the ballot programming?

 

Is Cuyahoga Co Ohio too big for Diebold/Premier? That’s a question being asked by the media and probably some members of the county Board of Elections.

 

Poll workers failed to remove the results cartridges from seven Sequoia Advantage machines in Camden Co New Jersey. If the votes on those cartridges won’t affect any races the votes won’t be considered in the final tally, according to state law. Election officials wonder why voter turn-out is so low. That’s one reason.

 

Counting of ballots in Lackawanna Co Pennsylvania was much slower than expected either with or because of Premier/Diebold employees running the optical-scan machines. Was the hold-up a ploy to make optical-scan systems look bad and to sell the county DREs?

 

Lawrence Co Ohio reports that votes have been flipped due to a software error by ES&S.

 

This is it for today. DVN will be on hiatus until Monday.

 

NAtional: U.S. Voting Technology Leader Sequoia Voting Systems Announces New Corporate Ownership

http://www.sequoiavote.com/press.php

 

NAtional: Getting in Touch with the Inner VVSG

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_how_071107_getting_in_touch_wit.htm

 

NAtional: Just a Few 'Glitches'?

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5265

 

CA: Counting paper ballots means long wait

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_vote08.3eb70eb.html

 

CA: Riverside County - Supervisors' e-mails violated law, DA says

www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20071108_Camden_County_errors_trap_votes_in_a_few_machines.html

 

CA: San Bernardino County - Next election results may take days

http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_7400611

 

CA: San Francisco - SF Charges Voting Company With Breach Of Contract

http://www.nbc11.com/news/14536192/detail.html

 

CA: San Francisco seeks reimbursement for election problems

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20071107-1753-ca-sanfranciscovoting.html

 

CA: San Francisco - S.F. prepares to sue voting machine company

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/08/BAN2T84D2.DTL

 

CA: San Francisco - Voting machine vendor under fire

http://www.examiner.com/a-1035895~Voting_machine_vendor_under_fire.html

 

CA: San Mateo County - Election picture still shaping up

http://sanmateodailynews.com/article/2007-11-8-smc-election-folo

 

CO: Uncertainty looms for 2008 election in Denver

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5742427,00.html

 

CO: Denver election woes bode ill for 2008

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5742006,00.html

 

CO: Denver – Columnist - LITTWIN: What's wrong here?

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_5742097,00.html

 

CO: Denver clerk: Much to do by '08

http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_7399499

 

CT: Rage for (and against) the machine:

New voting technology draws mixed reviews

http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/newcanaan/24947.shtml

 

CT: Middlefield recount in motion

http://www.middletownpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19001219&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=10856&rfi=6

 

FL: Fla. asked to detail balloting procedures

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071107/NEWS01/711070383/1002

 

FL: Sarasota County – Opinion - Election rules in limbo

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071108/OPINION/711080837/1030

 

IA: Voting by mail?

http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071108/NEWS/711080029/1006/news

 

IA: Culver wants to explore voting by mail

http://www.action3news.com/Global/story.asp?S=7330015&nav=menu550_2

 

IA: Johnson County - Human error, number of early voters lead to counting glitch

http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071108/NEWS01/711080340/1079

 

IN: La Porte County - Some glitches at polls

http://heraldargus.com/archives/ha/display.php?id=388530

 

MT: Election chief views mail-in balloting as success

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/08/news/local/27-election.txt

 

NJ: Atlantic County - Software blamed for delay of Atlantic County vote counts

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/top_three/story/7515324p-7414212c.html

 

NJ: Camden County errors trap votes in a few machines

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20071108_Camden_County_errors_trap_votes_in_a_few_machines.html

 

NJ: Essex County - Seven voting machines replaced in Essex County

http://www.montclairtimes.com/page.php?page=16156

 

NJ: Mercer County - Judge orders county to open machines to tally leftover votes

Poll workers did not turn over cartridges when the polls closed

http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1194498367125940.xml&coll=5

 

NY: US to NY: You Gotta HAVA Faulty Voting Machine

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rady_ana_071107_us_to_ny_3a__you_gotta.htm

 

NY: Civic Groups Blast Department of Justice Proposal to Gut Standards

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_allegra__071107_reaction_to_proposed.htm

 

NY: State elections board discusses U.S. lawsuit in closed session

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071108/NEWS05/711080402/1021

 

NY: Election activists call for return to paper ballots

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=637153&category=FRONTPG&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=11/8/2007

 

OH: Ohio Election Justice Campaign, Justified

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_victoria_071105_ohio_election_justic.htm

 

OH: State will review voting trouble in northwestern Ohio county

http://www.coshoctontribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071108/NEWS01/711080314/1002/NEWS01

 

OH: Glitches delay vote count for Seneca, Putnam

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071108/NEWS09/711080400

 

OH: Stealing Ohio 2004 – The Case Heats Up

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0711/S00161.htm

 

OH: Cuyahoga County's rocky election night leaves a lot of questions

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/11/cuyahoga_countys_rocky_electio.html

 

OH: Lawrence County - Township race result flipped because of error

http://www.irontontribune.com/articles/2007/11/08/news/news170.txt

 

PA: Fayette County - Official blames election Web site errors on database 'glitch'

http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19001598&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

 

PA: Lackawanna County - Vote-Counting Woes in Northeast Pennsylvania

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2634&Itemid=113

 

PA: Lackawanna County - Voting system ‘just totally antiquated’

http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19001830&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6

 

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