Manual Validation of Election Law passed in 2006 already violated. Ahhhhh... duh :) Show Cause Hearing now scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 11:00 am before Judge Larry Grant, courtroom 701 in the central court building, 201 W. Jefferson, Phoenix.
No matter what method you used, do you believe your vote was truly counted this year? Do you believe "mail in" ballots are a the next wave of scamming elections?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation site OurVoteLive.org, which is recording complaints from voters across the country, has had more than 9,000 complaints of voting problems, including at least 500 reports with voting equipment.
Wendy Lee was given a partially filled in paper ballot to vote on. After Wendy returned the ballot as invalid, the poll worker did not destroy the ballot. Only after Wendy insisted that it be destroyed, was the ballot voided.
"What happened was that my name was not on the rolls, and I'm not the only one. While I was waiting, thirty people...in the first five hours had been taken off the rolls...You do the math on that: Six per hour, per district, across America?*
An election monitoring group is asking officials in Virginia to address reports of massive voting machine failures and voters being turned away from polls, and it may go to court if no action is taken.
I vote every time I place a sign, write an article or any other form of expression and education of others that I choose to participate in. And this is as close as I am willing to get to the government's process as a "voter".
Some of the necessary reforms (esp. those mandated by state law) can be put into place before tomorrow's election while others clearly fall into the “too-late-for-this-one” category and may need legal reforms.
The flow chart shows how voting information was transferred from Ohio to SmarTech Inc., a Chattanooga Tennessee IT company known for its close association with the Republican Party, before the 2004 election results were displayed online.
Touch-screen machines can occasionally fail or register votes for unintended candidates. At least one study suggests that electronic voting machines can be easily hacked.
(Elections in America - Bottomline: If you are not voting on paper and hand counting them in front of witnesses immediately after the polls close, right then and there,... you don't know what happened.)
I was an observer at the Maricopa County Ballot Tabulations Center yesterday for their 'Logic and Accuracy' test of the Optical Voting Equipment. Did they tell you on the news that the first test failed? I didn't think so.
Remember that all of this is just about the visible problems with DRE machines, and that if all the visible problems were fixed there would be no reason whatsoever to believe your vote was counted and no way whatsoever to verify it.
Voters in Clayton County, Georgia reportedly waited in line between eight and twelve hours on Monday, in some cases into early Tuesday morning. The county's election supervisor Annie Bright blamed the state for the delays, citing computer problem
Berry is one of more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters who have been "flagged" because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information.
Tactics to deny Americans the right to vote are as old as, well, the right to vote. Democrats have been at fault in the past—take the literacy tests Southern states used to deprive blacks of their suffrage from the Civil War up through 1965