Votec/Votesafe software at the polls: NOT updating new voter records

[rainbow4321]

Is this software used nationwide?? Adding to the problem, election judges were trying to intimidate poll watchers.


http://www.baumbach.org/b2evolution/blogs/index.php

These ID issues were made much worse because the software the county was using to look up voters in the main registration database was not functioning as it should. Thousands of valid voter registrations, mostly newly registered voters, were not added to the poll lists because the software was not communicating to the central database.

The software, a program called VoteSafe purchased from San Diego based Votec, is an automated poll book software package that is supposed to allow "near real time" synchronization of voter registration databases, so that an election worker can look up a voter's registration and check the voter in to vote. While Votec promises, "Multiple fail-safe technologies keep you in control and your poll places always connected." the reality "on the ground" in Collin County was markedly different.

Beginning on the first day, VoteSafe was not processing new voter lists uploaded by officials at the McKinney elections office. Over the next 2 weeks, elections officials, Votec and county IT staff worked day and night to try to solve the communication problems, but with only limited success. On at least 2 occasions, elections officials dispatched workers to manually upload new databases at each polling location. The VoteSafe problems were still only partially resolved when early voting ended Friday night.

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According to some poll watchers at the Collin College Spring Creek campus polling place, the election judge, refused to allow the watchers to enter the election clerks area to observe the check-in process. On Friday, the judge, James Middleton, called the campus police and threatened to have the poll watchers removed. Even though the police were dispatched, common sense prevailed and the poll watchers were permitted to remain, however they were never granted full access to observe.

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Mr. Barrow also stated that the North Texas Election Protection team has over 150 lawyers and law students prepared to respond to election day issues. He promised that they, "would use any means at their disposal, including the courts, to remedy the dis-enfranchisement of registered voters on election day."

[LiberalFighter]

1. Is James Middleton the reincarnation of William Rehnquist?

If so, castrate the bastard!!