'Daily Voting News' For November 01, 2008 – Evening Edition

 

3 days until Election Day.

 

Just a comment to those who want to dismiss ‘vote-flipping’ as voter error. All kinds of people go to the polls to vote. They are highly educated and high-school outs. Rich and poor. They have long fingernails and nails bitten to the quick. They have thin fingers and wide fingers. They are going to softly touch the screen or touch it hard. Vendors and election officials tend to blame vote-flipping on the voters. They touched the screen too hard; drug their finger; had long fingernails; or their fingers touched too large an area. So, is it the voters fault? NO! It is the vendors who designed, built and sold these machines that don’t work for all voters and it is the election officials who bought those machines.

 

A large majority of the ‘vote-flipping’ has been on older ES&S iVotronic DREs; those machines that were featured on last year’s Dan Rather Reports. The cheaply built, poorly tested touch screens that were used as components on those systems should have been scrapped long ago. It’s not the voters fault and this constant pointing of fingers is wrong. The vendors need to remember that when they point a finger at the voters they have three fingers pointing back at the real culprit, themselves; and it makes no difference what those fingers look like, they are the fingers of blame.

 

National: The Technical Term for Voting Flaws: Human Error

http://www.pubrecord.org/commentary/447.html?task=view

 

National: Oprah's Vote Lost & How You Can Fight to Assure It Doesn't Happen to You!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/oprahs-vote-lost-how-you_b_140026.html

 

National: Voter, election fraud charges fly as Election Day nears

http://www.sacbee.com/175/story/1361905.html

 

National: Voting Machine Incident Roundup, 11/1

http://blog.ourvotelive.org/?p=151

 

National: Voting Early: Sounds Good, But Its Not the Answer

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Voting-Early-Sounds-Good-by-Stephen-Unger-081031-4.html

 

National: Voters Eager to Have A Stake in Historical Election: Early Voting Predicts Strong Turnout Tuesday

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Voters-Eager-to-Have-A-Sta-by-Project-Vote-081031-532.html

 

AZ: Pima County - Pima vote count could be a slow, painstaking ordeal

Full results may take days given large turnout, provisional ballots, new oversight guidelines

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/265199

 

AZ: Pima County - How vote problems will be addressed

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/265200

 

CA: Los Angeles County - Early voters tough it out

http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_10872067

 

CA: San Mateo County - Directly connected democracy

http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_10873448

 

CO: Larimer County - Long voting lines likely

About 60,000 expected to cast their ballots on Election Day at vote centers

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/NEWS03/811010343

 

FL: Broward County - Close eye kept on Broward's polls

As Election Day nears, some worry how Broward County's understaffed elections department will fare.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/750989.html

 

GA: Lawyers across state plan to keep their eyes on voting procedures

U.S. attorney, FBI will be on lookout for fraud, abuses

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/11/02/lawyers_1102.html

 

GA: Georgia's Secretary of State Promotes Voter Challenges and Refuses to Extend Early Voting Hours

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/georgias_secretary_of_state_pr.php

 

GA: Fulton, Clayton may extend voting hours on Tuesday

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2008/11/01/clayton_voting_extend.html

 

MS: Lawmakers may call for earlier voting

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20081101/NEWS01/811010321

 

NC: Can N.C. handle 4.5 million voters?

Concerns: Turnout, registration, software issues

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/408/story/212534.html

 

NH: Sort And Stack Elections In New Hampshire

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00011.htm

 

NJ: Big voter turnout could test election system in NJ

http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/UPDATES01/81101001

 

NJ: Central Jersey officials expect significant voter turnout on Election Day

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081101/NEWS/811020314/-1/newsfront

 

NY: State restrictions put New York behind on early voting

Limited exceptions hurt turnout, experts say

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/480605.html

 

NY: New York's Voter Registration Database: Fact & Friction

http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-yorks-voter-registration-database.html

 

NY: Advocates concerned about language access at polls

http://www.bakersfield.com/894/story/597192.html

 

NY: NY State Board of Elections Halts E-Vote “Certification” Tests

http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/2008/11/breaking-ny-state-board-of-elections.html

 

OH: Succession of Voting Disputes Put Ohio Official in Spotlight

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122550106553589991.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

 

OH: Franklin County - Paper-ballot must be offered if poll is busy

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/01/more_paper.ART_ART_11-01-08_B2_2UBP0PV.html?sid=101

 

OK: Pottawatomie County - Shawnee Election, Software Glitch Lend New Angle To National Vote

http://www.shawneesun.com/articles/2008/11/01/news/03election.txt

 

TX: Early Voting Records Broken In Smith County, Statewide

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20081101/NEWS15/811010328

 

TX: Wichita County - Final day of early voting ends strong

Turnout steady at all six polling sites

http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/nov/01/final-day-of-early-voting-ends-strong/

 

VA: NAACP to take lawsuit over voting machines to federal court

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/naacp-take-lawsuit-over-voting-machines-federal-court

 

VA: Five-Hour Wait Today for Richmond Voters

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2008/11/five-hour_wait_today_for_richm.html

 

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