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Hopefully Diebold Has The List of These Secret Voting Locations

Friday, October 26, 2007 – 1:00 pm

Via TPM, Pennsylvania has gone completely over the edge of lunacy.
State officials have decided not to publicize their list of polling places in Pennsylvania, citing concerns that terrorists could disrupt elections in the commonwealth.
The Department of State was influenced by the terrorist bombings that struck just days before Spain’s national elections in 2004, spokeswoman […]

By andrew | Also posted in Pennsylvania | Comments (1)

Turnout Is High

Tuesday, November 7, 2006 – 2:34 pm

This report squares with others from key states across the country:
Reports from around Virginia early Tuesday indicated an extraordinarily high turnout for a midterm election, with perhaps 65 percent of registered voters expected to cast ballots, state elections officials said. That would double the midterm turnout in 2002.
Regardless of where you live, you must […]

By andrew | Also posted in 2006 election, Virginia | Comments (0)

The Matrix Has You

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 – 11:05 am

More voting problems, this time in Texas:
Early voting runs through Friday, November 3rd.
KFDM continues to get complaints from Jefferson County voters who say the electronic voting machines are not registering their votes correctly.
Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a […]

By andrew | Also posted in electronic voting machines, Texas | Comments (3)

More (Yes, More) Voting Machine Troubles

Thursday, October 26, 2006 – 3:27 pm

Don’t trust the election results.
The maker of Maryland’s electronic voting system replaced a flawed electronic component in several thousand touch-screen voting machines in 2005, state election officials acknowledged this week.
To eliminate unpredictable “screen freezes” that have occurred since the machines were first used in Maryland in 2002, Diebold Election Systems installed new system boards […]

By andrew | Also posted in 2006 election, Diebold | Comments (0)

Voting Machines Don’t Work

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 – 2:32 pm

News from Virginia to help convince you that election results aren’t to be trusted so long as we use electronic voting machines:
Some names are cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by voters in Alexandria, Falls Church and Charlottesville — the only jurisdictions in Virginia that use balloting machines made by Hart […]

By andrew | Also posted in 2006 election, Virginia | Comments (0)

Maryland’s Election Is A Mess

Thursday, October 12, 2006 – 12:23 pm

Maryland has ordered 1.6 million paper ballots for the November election. Not to use in place of computers, mind you, but simply as a backup should the machines fail. If there were a problem on election day, the paper ballots would be available to voters as provisional ballots.
This is, of course, stupid. […]

By andrew | Also posted in voters, 2006 election, Diebold, Maryland | Comments (0)

Governor Ehrlich Is… Gasp… Right

Thursday, September 21, 2006 – 11:22 am

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I agree with Maryland’s Bob Ehrlich. The state needs to give up on electronic voting in this election. No one trusts the machines anymore, and with good reason. If the voters can’t trust the results of an election, the most basic principle of democracy […]

By andrew | Also posted in Robert Ehrlich, 2006 election, Maryland | Comments (0)

House Moves To Disenfranchise More Americans

Thursday, September 21, 2006 – 10:26 am

Reuters:
In a move to crack down against illegal immigrants voting in U.S. elections, the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to require Americans to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections.
Democratic opponents said the bill would discourage eligible voters. But it passed with overwhelming support of Republicans who argued that it […]

By andrew | Also posted in civil rights, voting rights, immigration | Comments (0)

Trouble In Maryland

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 – 11:55 am

It sounds like a few of you are probably having some trouble voting today. Montgomery County had major issues with its electronic voting system, and the Post is also reporting problems in the District and PG County. It’s going to be hard to convince people that electronic voting is reliable when it […]

By andrew | Also posted in 2006 election, Washington, DC, Maryland | Comments (0)

Yet Another Post About Voting Irregularities, But This Time With Mexico In Mind

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 – 1:55 pm

As a disclaimer, I haven’t followed the Mexican election story all that closely. I’d love to hear from people who have in the comments.
That being said, the Federal Electoral Tribunal declared Felipe Calderon the winner of the presidential election to the dismay of his opponent, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. I’ve written in […]

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