'Daily Voting News' For November 09, 2008

 

In this space in the Nov. 07 DVN I mentioned that ES&S software was responsible for flipping votes in Crawford Co Kansas. That statement was incorrect. The county did their own ballot programming for the first time. They made a mistake in ballot rotation which caused the votes for candidates to be counted for different candidates in one race. The county also did a poor job of pre-election testing which should have found their programming error.

 

Meanwhile responsibility for Kenton Co Kentucky’s Hart Intercivic eSlate machines and their failure to record straight-party votes in two legislative races is being revealed. The machines are purchased from and maintained by Harp Industries. Harp also does the ballot programming. Harp has admitted that they failed to properly program Kenton Co’s machines. The county has admitted that they failed to properly do pre-election testing which would have found the problem.

 

There is a common theme here. Ballot programming can fail and counties must do proper pre-election testing to ensure none of those failures go forward to the election. Even if a contractor or the vendor of the voting system does the programming, counties should always build their own test decks and thoroughly test the machines.

 

National: Please Look Before Leaping Into Vote-by-Mail...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6650

 

AZ: Scores in Valley had to submit provisional vote

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2008/11/09/20081109ballots1109.html

 

AZ: Opinion - Waiting so long at polls harmful to voting process

http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/waiting_45698___article.html/vote_process.html

 

CO: Boulder County - Improving the count

Oklahoma, others pose solutions for a better election system in Boulder County

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/nov/09/improving-count/

 

CT: Republican Chair Concerned With Election Integrity

http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=975

 

FL: Provisional ballots counted in St. Lucie County

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/nov/09/provisional-ballots-02/

 

FL: Wakulla County - Vote recount stokes county's suspicions

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article895277.ece

 

GA: Handel seeks probe of Fulton elections office

County was slow in counting of absentee ballots

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/11/07/fulton_ballot_count.html

 

GA: Fulton Co. Elections Officials Say Ballot Counting Finally Done

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7821708&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

 

KS: Crawford County - County officials fix old glitch, find possible new one

http://www.morningsun.net/news/x1588612405/County-officials-fix-old-glitch-find-possible-new-one

 

KY: Company: Access codes do not identify voters [Hart Intercivic]

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/11/09/3771668.htm

 

KY: Blame game: It's on

Kenton Co. tries to pin down all that went wrong

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081109/NEWS0103/811090327

 

MD: Electronic voting on its way out in Maryland

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2008/11/09/news/local_news/newsstory3.txt

 

NY: Record number of voters file long list of complaints about 'Stone Age' trip to polls

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/11/08/2008-11-08_record_number_of_voters_file_long_list_o.html

 

OH: Franklin County - Fewer paper votes count

Voters more likely to mess up when they don't use machines

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/09/copy/BAD_PAPER.ART_ART_11-09-08_A1_NFBR0P3.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

 

OH: Ohio Elections Chief Calls For Voting Summit

http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/17939008/detail.html

 

OH: Marion County - Follow through if you cast a provisional ballot

http://www.marionstar.com/article/20081109/OPINION01/811090302

 

SC: Election problems; early voting

http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/nov/09/election_problems_early_voting61060/

 

VA: On-demand voting

It's time to join all the states that have moved beyond Election (Tues)Day

http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-ed_voting_edit_1109nov09,0,5600743.story

 

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