NYT/AP: ID Rules, Machines Early Voting Problems

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/AP: ID Rules, Machines Early Voting Problems
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 7, 2006
Filed at 9:23 a.m. ET

Electronic voting machine problems frazzled voters and election workers in dozens of precincts as the polls opened Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana and Ohio and leaving some in Florida with little choice but turn to paper ballots instead.

In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as poll workers fumbled with new voting machines that they couldn't get to start properly.

''We got five machines -- one of them's got to work,'' said Willette Scullank, a trouble shooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.

Election officials in Delaware County, Ind., planned to seek a court order to extend voting after an apparent computer error prevented voters from casting ballots in 75 precincts. Delaware County Clerk Karen Wenger said the cards that activate the machines were programmed incorrectly.

''We are working with precincts one-by-one over the telephone to get the problem fixed,'' Wenger said.

With a third of Americans voting on new equipment and voters navigating new registration databases and changing ID rules, election watchdogs worried about polling problems even before the voting began Tuesday....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ELN-Voting-Problems.html

[Ethelk2044]

1. Voting Machines

It seems to me it should have been common sense to test the
sytems yesterday (before the election)

[Doctor_J]

2. For exevery point ahead Dems are in the polls, another 200

precincts have "voting problems".

This was the November surprsie, although not that surprising.

[IndyOp]

3. Delaware County, Indiana

is using new Microvote Infinity direct-record electronic Voting machines - it has a population of 85,126 registered voters.

:grr:

[flpoljunkie]

4. Urgent! Missouri's chief elections official, Robin Carnahan was illegally asked to show ID 3 times!

Courts have struck down specific ID requirements in several states, but election watchdogs warned that poll workers might still mistakenly turn voters away. Missouri's chief elections official, Robin Carnahan, said she was asked three times to show a photo ID, despite a court ruling striking the requirement down there.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ELN-Voting-Problems.html

Who do you think is responsible for this? Election officials at the county level, that's who--and they should and do know otherwise! I hope there are election monitors and lawyers at the precincts to stop this attempt at vote suppression!