Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News, FRI. Oct. 5 & 6, 2006 -

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America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self control,
Thy liberty in law.


http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/bates.php

The Federalist No. 51

The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments

Independent Journal
Wednesday, February 6, 1788

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm

With gratitude to all those who defend the people's rights


From an astrologer site:

If, in the world of quantum physics, all things are possible and reality is what we choose to focus on... Try this. It can't hurt. Spread the word.

If only 3 percent of the U.S. population takes 60 seconds to do this exercise every day, we can make a massive difference. This is how it works: for 60 seconds each day visualize your favored candidate elected as our next . See the celebrations and excitement and sense of fulfillment across America. See yourself rejoicing with people in your home, neighborhood, and workplace. See people all over the world trusting and building real alliance with the US! See your candidate being sworn into office. Feel the hope, joy, and gratitude. Believe it is possible.

Now, imagine your candidates restoring greater wellbeing in America. See people streaming back to work. See young children getting the support they need. Visualize our teachers, police officers, single mothers, the mentally ill, and many others getting the help they deserve. See our soldiers coming home to their families. Imagine our leaders establishing greater trust and good will with other nations. See peace spreading across the world. See the Iraq conflict ending. Feel how good it will be for the environment to be protected and renewed. See hope rising across the world in the hearts and souls of all of us. See these pictures in your mind for 60 seconds every day between now and November. Be grateful that you have the gift of participating in shaping a greater country. Be grateful that you care. Believe that all this is possible—and more! And be sure to vote!

http://daykeeperjournal.com/feature4.shtml

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1. On DU: Busby-Bilbray Case - Appeal Filed - Land Shark Strikes!!!

thanks to autorank

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2324174&mesg_id=2324174

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2. Scoop/Autorank: Appeal Filed in Bilbray Election Challenge

thanks to althecat

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2326915

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3. Alaska 2004 data apparently has been tampered with...

thanks to Blue_In_AK

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451959

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4. Guilty in Appalachian Election Fraud Scheme (Dems)

thanks to Land Shark

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451969

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5. VOTER REGISTRATIONS FAKED IN GOP DRIVE

thanks to mod mom

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451982

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6. Raging Grannies take no prisoners, Denounce DREs at local meeting

thanks to Stevepol

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451942

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7. RFK Jr. video - now interested in running!

thanks to garybeck

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451911

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8. Levy fights on vs. new vote machines (Suffolk, NY)

thanks to calO4

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451951

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9. Best MSM E-voting Coverage: CNN Lou Dobbs (video) WeCount conference!

thanks to Land Shark

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451949

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10. URGENT - Ohioans, please contact your local libraries...

thanks to liam_laddie

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451899

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11. IL -- DuPage Election Chairman Took $12,500 from Diebold Vendor

thanks to AtLiberty

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451891

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12. GUAM: Barcinas will take up new election challenge

Pacific Daily News

By Steve Limtiaco
Pacific Daily News
[e-mail]

Superior Court of Guam Judge Arthur Barcinas, who on Thursday dismissed an election challenge filed by candidates and voters, is scheduled to hear the latest challenge to the Primary Election next Wednesday afternoon.

Superior Court of Guam Judge Katherine Maraman yesterday morning said the attorney general's office challenge to the Sept. 2 Primary Election was assigned to Barcinas, who will hear initial motions in the complaint 1:30 p.m. Oct. 11.

The challenge filed late Thursday afternoon by the Office of the Attorney General, alleges that the Guam Election Commission met illegally in connection with the election.

Barcinas earlier in the day had dismissed the challenge by voters and candidates, who alleged that laws were broken by the commission while conducting the election.
Barcinas said he was troubled by the evidence presented, but said it was up to the political parties to challenge a Primary Election.

The attorney general's office wants the court to order a new Primary Election or to order a Primary Election at the same time as the Nov. 7 General Election.

http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061007/NEWS01/610070320/1002

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13. WI: Sex, Packers, Politics -- Secretary Of State Race Has It All

Channel 3000
Former Packers QB Endorses Sullivan On Web Site

POSTED: 4:44 pm CDT October 5, 2006
UPDATED: 4:58 pm CDT October 5, 2006

MADISON, Wis. -- Sandy Sullivan, 65, is putting a little spice into this year's race for secretary of state.
Sullivan, a Republican, has published a memoir of her affair with Packers great Paul Hornung.
The Packers groupie also has a picture of herself standing next to legendary former Packers quarterback Bart Starr on her campaign Web site. The site quotes Starr as saying Sullivan is reliable and remarkable.

http://www.channel3000.com/politics/10011072/detail.html

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14. Robin Williams Interview, Man of the Year

Movies Online

Movie Man of the Year (2006) Posted By: Sheila Roberts

From 1987’s wartime comedy "Good Morning, Vietnam" to 1997’s current-events satire "Wag the Dog," Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson’s films have often drawn their humor from a rich comedy source – the political arena. He has examined our politicos’ decisions and deceptions…and helped guilty voters laugh as we share with our elected leaders the fallout of some pretty bad choices.

Now in his new comedy, "Man of the Year," the writer-director asks us to ponder a "what-if" scenario that doesn’t seem so far-fetched in 2006: what would happen if a computer voting error allowed one of the nation’s funniest men to become its president? On October 13, 2006, Oscar winner Robin Williams reunites with the filmmaker to answer just that question.

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_10095.html

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15. ZDNet: Standards to stimulate e-voting?

By Candace Lombardi, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: October 6, 2006, 9:17 AM PT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The government was quick to trust the Internet with tax returns, but it still has not managed to organize a paperless voting system. What's the holdup?
Many voting citizens, whether they consider themselves red, blue or green, have been asking that question since the 2000 election shed light on how inconsistent, and often low-tech, the voting systems are in the United States.
Standardization of data fields, interoperability between counties and states, and an unwillingness on the part of local municipalities to embrace change are some of the major obstacles, according to panelists at the Voter Identification/Registration Conference, hosted by the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday and Friday.
Politicians and election officials have been scrambling to put together high-tech solutions, but the potential for voter fraud, coupled with the exposure of security flaws in e-voting systems and voter databases, has slowed down the conversion.
The panel put aside legal issues concerning e-voting machines and, instead, concentrated on how technology could be used to ensure that electronic voter registration and identification is valid and consistently maintained.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6123416.html

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16. DE: Rehoboth commissioner Paul Kuhns

By Kevin Spence
Cape Gazette staff

Election reform
Statewide election reform passed this year requires that Rehoboth update its election law. With its summer elections, Rehoboth will be among the first to implement the changes, and Cooper and Commissioner Ron Paterson have attended workshops and other election reform meetings.

“As far as I’m concerned this bill is a disaster,” said Cooper. Paterson, who agrees, said the legislation is confusing and cumbersome.

“We need to figure out what we have, what doesn’t fit with what they have done,” said Paterson.

Among provisions the city must address is establishing an election board. “In my thinking, that’s something we’re going to have to deal with first,” said Paterson.

The city has election judges, but no board.

Voter eligibility, including the matter of properties held in trust, is another topic that must be addressed, said Paterson.

The state also mandates absentee voting by mail. “As you know, that’s not the Rehoboth way. You have to show up for the five minutes it take to register,” Paterson said.

In Rehoboth, absentee ballots must be picked up in person.

The changes to the city charter must be made by June 11, 60 days before next year’s election.

http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/200610/rehokuhns100606.html

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17. Nat'l Catholic Weekly: Editorial: Disenfranchised Americans

November’s midterm elections are approaching, but over five million Americans, in nearly all 50 states, will be denied the right to cast ballots. Why? Because they are current or prior felony offenders who cannot exercise a right guaranteed them in the Constitution. Two million of them have completed their sentence, so their punishment indirectly continues long after they have paid their debt to society. This unjust situation has attracted the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Meeting in Geneva last July, the committee held hearings to assess U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the voting issue emerged as an “area of concern.” The committee charged that U.S. disenfranchisement policies violate international law and disproportionately affect the rights of minority groups. According to the nonprofit Sentencing Project in Washington, D.C., of the more than five million barred from voting, 13 percent are African-American men.

http://www.americamagazine.org/editorial.cfm?articleTypeID=3&textID=5021&issueID=587

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18. VA: McDonnell tackles military voter registration issue

The Virginian-Pilot.com

By KATE WILTROUT, The Virginian-Pilot
© October 6, 2006


Military members who live in Virginia but claim residency in another state for tax purposes may still be eligible to vote here, according to the state attorney general.

In an opinion released this week, Attorney General Bob McDonnell concluded that registrars can't deny or cancel service members' voter registration solely because they list another state as their legal residence. Many military personnel live or own property in one state but claim residency in another that does not have an income tax.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=112204&ran=55183

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19. OH: Strickland's Voter Registration Challenged

OhioNewsNow

A fellow Democrat is challenging governor candidate Ted Strickland's voter registration.

Columbiana County resident Jacquelyn Long claims Strickland doesn't really live at his address in the county, which is south of the Youngstown area in eastern Ohio. The challenge filed Wednesday with the local Board of Elections says that while Congressman Strickland is registered to vote in Lisbon, he actually lives at a Columbus address that's on his tax returns.

http://www.onnnews.com/?sec=home&story=sites/ONN/content/pool/200610/1879178814.html

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20. Beware potential pitfalls of electronic voting

Letters to the editor

October 6, 2006

After witnessing a disturbing demonstration video on how simple it is to tamper with electronic voting machines, I felt obligated to try to make as many citizens aware of this potential opportunity for criminals to steal our votes. A video based on a Princeton study, can be viewed at http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/.


Read the investigative report, "Will the Next Election Be Hacked?" in the Oct. 5 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Then ask your elected state and federal officials if they are aware of this situation and what they are doing to protect us. Also, ask them to support emergency legislation that will ensure that all states have access to paper ballots at all polling locations. Finally, contact Election Systems and Software (ES&S) officials and ask them to publicly state what security measures are being taken to ensure that we have secure, transparent and independently verifiable election results.
Amazingly, the four privately owned, for-profit electronic voting machine companies (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia Voting Systems, and Hart InterCivic) have been allowed to certify themselves without oversight from state election officials. We desperately need independent verification of all ballots that will be cast on Election Day so that we can maintain confidence in the democratic foundations that are the bedrock of our great country.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061006/OPINION01/610060385/-1/ZONES04

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21. AR: Daniels ahead in secretary of state race, poll shows

Arkansas News Bureau

Friday, Oct 6, 2006

By Rob Moritz
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK - A new poll suggests a one-side race for secretary of state, with incumbent Democrat Charlie Daniels 34 points ahead of Republican rival Jim Lagrone.

The poll, commissioned by the Arkansas News Bureau-Stephens Media, showed Daniels with 60 percent support in his bid for a second four-year term and Lagrone, a Baptist preacher from Bryant, with 26 percent. Fourteen percent of respondents said they were undecided.

Opinion Research Associates of Little Rock conducted a telephone survey Sept. 26-30 of 500 registered voters who said they would likely cast ballots in the Nov. 7 general election. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2006/10/06/News/337945.html

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22. Voter Registrations Related: UT: Voter registration deadline 10 days earli

earlier in S.L. County

The Salt Lake Tribune


Article Last Updated:10/05/2006 01:39:51 AM MDT
Salt Lake County residents who still must register for the November general election have until Tuesday to mail in their forms.
The county clerk's office has placed by-mail voter-registration forms in locations across the county, including post offices, libraries and most grocery stores.
Those who wish to vote at an early voting location must be registered by this deadline, which is 10 days earlier than previous years because of a new law.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4443965

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23. MA: Voter, absentee ballot registration available at EPOCH

Norton Monitor

Friday, October 6, 2006

A representative of the Massachusetts Extended Care Federation will visit EPOCH Senior Healthcare of Norton on Thursday, Oct. 12, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The representative will assist voter registration and absentee ballot registration. EPOCH Senior Healthcare is located at 184 Mansfield Ave.

http://www2.townonline.com/norton/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=589869

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24. IN: Election education

Friday, October 06, 2006

Who can vote

You must be a U.S. citizen, a resident of the state in which you’re registering, 18 years old, not in prison (laws about people with criminal records vary by state) and not declared mentally insane.

It can take between 10 days and three weeks for the local elections office to process your registration application, at which point they’ll send you a voter registration card. Remember to register as early as possible to ensure that your application is processed before Election Day. Elections offices often get inundated with paperwork as the deadline approaches.

http://www.uecrescent.org/articles/stories/public/200610/06/40mm_news.html

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25. FL: Voter registration deadline looms

Sun & Weekly Herald

10/06/06

Absentee ballots already coming in


NORTH PORT -- Even though election day is a month away, plenty of votes are already coming into the elections office.

"We just sent out absentee ballots last weekend," said Liz Brennan of the North Port elections office, "and already this week people are bringing them back in."

She said the returns have been steady and seem to be coming in faster than last year.

"I think that's an indication of how much interest there is in this election," she added.

Absentee ballots can be submitted until election day on Nov. 7. Early voting is also an option beginning Oct. 23 and running through Nov. 5.

"In order to vote in the general election, people must be registered by Oct. 10," Brennan said. Already registered voters can submit a change of address at any time.

http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/100606/np5.htm?date=100606&story=np5.htm

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27. VA:Voter Registration Ends Friday

WCYB Channel 5

Date 6 October 2006
If you would like to vote in the Senate race and are not registered, you are about out of time. Unless your county election commission office is open on Saturday, Friday is the last day to register to vote. Early voting starts on October 18th and runs to November 2nd. In Virginia, the last day to register in the November election is Tuesday October 10th. Election Day is November 7th.

http://www.wcyb.tv/newsread.asp?newsid=7507

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29. KS: Facebook allows online voter registration

The University Daily Kansan

Facebook has set up a page that allows students to register to vote

A Rock the Vote page on Facebook allows students to register online to vote. Students can print out a form and mail it in to register.

By Erin Castaneda

Friday, October 6, 2006

The power of peer persuasion is the motivation behind Rock the Vote and Facebook’s union Tuesday to encourage young adults to register to vote.

A Rock the Vote page, “We Will Rock the Vote,” on Facebook now allows students to register online. Young Voter Strategies, a nonpartisan political organization at The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, coordinated the Rock the Vote registration program on Facebook.

http://www.kansan.com/stories/2006/oct/06/rockthevote/?news

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32. IL: Voter registration available Saturday

The Register-Mail Online

Thursday, October 5, 2006

MONMOUTH - The Warren County Clerk's election office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday for voter registration.

http://www.register-mail.com/stories/100506/LOC_BB5FF87B.GID.shtml

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33. TN: Saturday last day for November election voter registration

Chattanooga Times Free Press

Thursday, October 05, 2006, at 3:58 p.m.

Qualified Hamilton County residents who plan to vote in the Nov. 7 election have until noon Saturday to get in their registration application, officials said.

“Any change in the voter registration has to be done 30 days prior to the election,” said Bud Knowles, director of the Hamilton County Election Commission.

Applications submitted in person must be in Saturday, while submissions by mail must be postmarked Oct. 8, which is Sunday. The Election Commission will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

http://www.tfponline.com/absolutenm/templates/breaking.aspx?articleid=5578&zoneid=41

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34. CO: Voter registration deadlines loom

Summit Daily News

DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORT
October 5, 2006

SUMMIIT COUNTY - Local elections officials want the community to realize some upcoming elections deadlines that are nearing for the Nov. 7 general election. Here's a list of some key information:

- Last day to register to vote for the Nov. 7 General Election - Tuesday, Oct. 10

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20061005/NEWS/110050063

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35. TX: Voter registration deadline approaching

The Oldest Newspaper in Central Texas · Last Updated Thursday, Oct 05, 2006 - 11:35:01 am CDT

Tuesday is the last chance for residents who are not already registered to vote to register and be eligible to vote in the Nov. 7 elections.

Residents may register at the Milam County Tax Office located on the square in downtown Cameron.

To register, one will have to fill out a form at the tax office and also show some sort of picture identification, such as a driver's license.

Tuesday is also the last day for voters to make a change of address that will be effective for the Nov. 7 vote casts. It is also the last day for a person to apply for a full ballot by mail using a federal postcard application.

http://www.cameronherald.com/articles/2006/10/05/news/news01.txt

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36. GA: Voter Registration Deadline Approaches

Deadline Oct. 10

It's almost election time, and a mistake may have thousands of Georgia residents confused about voter ID. The state election board sent out letters to 300,000 people telling them they were on a list of registered voters that might not have a valid driver's licenses or photo ID and they need to get one.

But last month, a judge barred the state from enforcing the voter ID law. Under that ruling, voters don't need to show any ID to vote.

But, they do need to register and time is running out. You have less than a week to do so in Chatham County.

http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5503322&nav=0qq6

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37. MI:Voter registration deadline nearing

The Daily Telegram

Thursday, October 5, 2006 2:53 PM EDT

New or relocated voters must register by Tuesday to vote in the Nov. 7 election.

By Dennis Pelham

Daily Telegram Staff Writer

ADRIAN — The deadline for new or relocated voters to register for the Nov. 7 election is Tuesday at the close of the business day at county, city and township clerks’ offices and Michigan Secretary of State offices.

Lenawee County Clerk Lou Ann Bluntschly has had notices published this week in an effort to avoid having disappointed voters turned away on election day because they are not properly registered.

http://www.lenconnect.com/articles/2006/10/05/news/news04.txt

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26. PA: Voter registration drives being examined by county officials

The Citizen's Voice

BY HEIDI RUCKNO
STAFF WRITER
10/06/2006


According to Bureau of Elections Director Leonard Piazza, the county has received approximately 50 applications with Social Security numbers that cannot be verified from voter registration drives in the Hazleton area, he said.

Under current election law, potential voters’ identities must be verified through their driver’s licence numbers. If they don’t have licenses or state identification cards, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers can be substituted, Piazza said. But he cannot find a match for the applications in question. He believes the unusually high number of unverifiable applications are from voter registration drives in the Hispanic community.

“We’re attempting to contact several individuals that have been assisting in registering voters,” he said. “I’ve got some general concerns at the present time. I’m seeking to reach out to the people conducting these voter registration drives in the Latino community and I’m planning to raise the issue at the next election board meeting.”

http://www.citizensvoice.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17292323&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6

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28. VA: W&M president criticizes voter registration policy

Daily Press

President Gene Nichol writes state officials that planned changes are detrimental to college students.

BY CAROL SCOTT
223-5686
October 6, 2006
WILLIAMSBURG -- College of William and Mary President Gene Nichol has written state officials, criticizing proposed changes in voter registration policy that he says don't treat college students equally.

Nichol, a constitutional law professor, said the State Board of Elections proposal remained inconsistent statewide in how college students registered to vote. He also suggested the General Assembly pass legislation similar to that in Iowa, where students can choose whether to vote in their hometown or their college towns.

Voter registrars in Virginia determine whether a would-be voter is a resident of the city or county where they want to vote. That's been controversial in some Virginia college towns, including Williamsburg, where the voter registrar doesn't consider a college dorm a permanent residence. Other college-town registrars, such as in Charlottesville, do consider a dorm a permanent home.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/williamsburg/dp-45942sy0oct06,0,56529.story?coll=dp-news-local-wbg

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USA Today: Voter ID laws target the vulnerable

Views from our editorial board, columnists and readers

By Annette Fuentes

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 came to life at a time when laws in the Jim Crow South disenfranchised African-Americans. Earlier this year, Congress and President Bush renewed the legislation, and so it will continue to protect the franchise for America's most vulnerable citizens.

But a movement is afoot at the state and federal level that threatens the essence of that law with backdoor approaches to suppress voter participation. Voter ID laws are at the heart of this strategy.

The House just passed a bill to require government-issued photo IDs to vote in the federal election in 2008. The Senate has yet to act on it. At the state level, 24 voter ID laws have been adopted — 13 of them in the past four years.

Voter ID foes argue that these laws affect poor, minority, elderly and young voters who are least likely to possess the kinds of documentation needed to obtain an ID. That includes birth certificates, which many seniors might no longer possess, and driver's licenses, which many without cars don't have.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2006/10/voter_id_laws_t.html

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30. TX: Dona Ana County Faces Voting Problems

Kfoxtv

With the election only a few weeks away, one Dona Ana County resident is trying to address inconsistencies with four voter registration cards he has received.

Harry Davis registered to vote seven months ago. Since then, he has received four registration cards, including three with conflicting information.

One issued by the county put Davis in precinct six. Another issued two months later by the state indicated the same precinct, but a different polling place. Then in September, Davis received a new voter registration card showing a completely different precinct with a new polling place.

On Thursday, KFOX-TV took the registration cards to the elections supervisor for answers.

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/10012468/detail.html

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31. RI: M.J. Andersen: Midterm vote may be hard to trust

The Providence Journal

01:00 AM EDT on Friday, October 6, 2006
PUNDITS EVERYWHERE are polishing up their best lines, preparing to pump meaning into the November elections. But the meaning could turn out to be a big problem.

Across the country, new vote-counting technologies stand poised to defy an accurate tally. Thus, much bloviating will stem from facts that may not be factual.
The latest study to raise suspicions comes from a team of Princeton computer scientists. Somehow, they got their hands on a Diebold electronic voting machine. The team's type of "AccuVote" machine, and a cousin quite like it, are scheduled to be used in 357 counties, where nearly 10 percent of U.S. voters are registered, they note.
Not only are the machines extremely vulnerable to tinkering, the team reported recently; their failure to perform accurately would probably go undetected.
"Malicious software" designed to steal votes could be installed in one minute in a single machine, by anyone (a poll worker, for instance) with access. Viruses could easily (and invisibly) spread the software to multiple machines.

http://www.projo.com/opinion/columnists/content/projo_20061006_clander.322e955.html

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38. BradBlog: Another voting system has been hacked

BLOGGED BY John Gideon ON 10/5/2006 4:56PM

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

Another voting system has been hacked and the hackers claim they could even change the software to a chess game. Liberty Systems, which is being marketed in the North East including heavily in New York, was hacked by a team of Dutch IT professionals. / Cook Co, Illinois elections staff admit to the County Board that there will probably be problems in Nov. and testing of their Sequoia equipment certainly reveals there will be problems. One elections manager told the Board that it takes 3 or 4 elections before there are no longer any problems. / Suffolk Co. New York officials are suing to keep their lever machines. / Maryland will use the e-poll books even though it took three software patches and the inclusion of a mouse, none of which have been certified federally….


NAtional: NEDAP (Liberty Systems) Voting Machines Hacked LINK


http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3579

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39. BradBlog: BREAKING - Ohio Meltdown 06!

OHIO MELTDOWN '06: Cuyahoga County Candidates Party Designation Switched On Absentee Ballots!

Democratic Incumbent Listed as Republican…
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting today that over 1,500 ballots were sent out to absentee voters with the party designation swapped on one race.

According to the Plain Dealer:

More than 1,500 absentee ballots sent to voters in several Cuyahoga County communities listed the wrong party affiliations for two candidates in the race for Ohio House District 7.
Democratic incumbent Kenny Yuko was incorrectly listed as a Republican, while challenger Beverly Valencic was mislabeled as a Democrat.

BLOGGED BY John Gideon ON 10/6/2006 3:03PM PT

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40. BradBlog: National GOP May be Tied to Voter Registration Fraud Cases

Just Discovered in Tennessee

Some good reporting from The Tennessean today on what appears to be some voter registration fraud, possibly tied to the Republican National Committee.

You'll note that Tennessee, a state which had previously been represented by outgoing Bill Frist and thought to have been a shoe-in for Republicans, is now an exceedingly tight race, with the Democratic candidate for that Senate seat, Rep. Harold Ford, beginning to pull ahead…but just barely…A few votes in a single state, at this point, could make the difference in control of the Senate this year.

With that in mind, and what we know about GOP willingness to game elections every which way possible — extra-legal or otherwise — please note the following tea leaf from today's Tennessean today…

http://www.bradblog.com/

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41. CNN's Lou Dobbs: 'Flawed elections? We're talking about a disaster here'

BradBlog

Guest Blogged by John Gideon

"A growing number of communities all across the country are now saying they simply want nothing to do with electronic voting machines. They've decided not to spend a dime of their taxpayers' money on those machines until they can guarantee that the votes of their citizens will count on Election Day and that those votes can actually be recounted with confidence." said Lou Dobbs at the top of Thursday's "Democracy At Risk" segment. The Lou finishes with this understatement, "Cook County saying it usually takes three or four elections to get it right. You are just writing off three or four elections? That's an insane statement."

The text-transcript of Thursday's segment on Lou Dobbs Tonight follows in full…

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3580#more-3580

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42. WAPO: Cardin Airs Doubts About Voting System

By Ann E. Marimow and Cameron W. Barr
Washington Post staff writers
Friday, October 6, 2006; Page B04


U.S. Senate candidate Benjamin L. Cardin yesterday voiced a lack of confidence in Maryland's voting system and worried that the problems that plagued the primary election could discourage voters from turning out in November.

"I am not convinced that they know how to run this election so that voters will not be inconvenienced to a point where they don't participate," Cardin (D) said during an interview with Washington Post reporters and editors.

Cardin's comments came on the day that state elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone announced that Maryland would continue using an electronic voter check-in system that repeatedly froze and rebooted without warning on primary day, confusing election judges and delaying voters across the state.

"After rigorous review and testing of the proposed solutions offered by Diebold Election Systems" -- the equipment's manufacturer -- "we are satisfied the issues experienced with the electronic poll books in our primary election have been resolved satisfactorily," Lamone said in a statement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501762.html

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43. Poll Worker Recruitment Drive Attracts Volunteers With a Reform Agenda

Newhouse News Service

BY DRU SEFTON
c.2006 Newhouse News Service

An unprecedented recruitment effort for those ever-elusive election workers has produced pledges from 4,000 volunteers nationwide for the Nov. 7 voting.

The drive also may signal the advent of a new species of poll worker -- more activist than neutral guide or observer.

Many of the workers recruited so far by Pollworkers for Democracy through its Web site (pollworkersfordemocracy.org) are younger, technologically savvy and have signed up to "bring real solutions and transparency to the American election process" and "be in a unique position to identify and stop voter intimidation" at the polls.

Volunteers promise to complete a post-election worker survey, part of the nationwide Election Incident Reporting System, which supports election reform.

The Pollworkers for Democracy Web site details just how these poll workers are different: They are "on a bit of a stealth mission to observe and report back afterward any breakdowns, vote switching or other election integrity issues they see occur."

It's the work of two groups, Mainstreet Moms and VoteTrustUSA, and a telephone and credit-card firm called Working Assets that says it funds "progressive causes."

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/sefton100606.html

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44. NV: A fundamental concern

Fallon Star Press

Posted: 10/6/2006

With little more than a month to go before Election Day, there is uncertainty in the land. This is not the uncertainty of rank-and-file voters about whether to vote for the Democrat or the Republican running for Congress in their district, nor that of political professionals about their candidates' prospects. No, this is a deeper and potentially more troubling kind of election-year uncertainty: A lack of confidence in the act of voting itself.
For most Americans, this is a legacy of the 2000 presidential election mess in Florida. Regardless of what one thought of the ultimate outcome, those weeks of counting, recounting and political maneuvering seemed to expose the American election system as not up to the task of dealing with a contest that was closer than this year's National League wild-card race.
And, in accordance with Murphy's Law, close elections seem to be our new national pastime.

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061006/FALLON04/610060357/1029/FALLON

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45. TX: Parties want voting paper trail

Star Telegram

Posted on Fri, Oct. 06, 2006

By AMAN BATHEJA
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER

FORT WORTH -- The heads of the Tarrant County Republican and Democratic parties both called Thursday night for a verifiable paper trail to be incorporated in the county's electronic voting machines.

They spoke at a forum attended by about 50 people on voting machine security organized by the League of Women Voters of Tarrant County in downtown Fort Worth.

"Democrats and Republicans don't agree on a lot of things, but this is something Art and I both agree on," said Stephanie Klick, chairwoman of the local Republican Party, referring to her Democratic counterpart, Art Brender.

A local Green Party official also favored use of a paper trail.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/15694549.htm

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46. IN: Election Discussion; Machines Tested

With the election only a month away, Vanderburgh County officials need to ensure all the electronic voting equipment is in good working order. So Thursday, they conducted a public test of the Ivotronic touch screen voting machines.

Dozens of the machines will go to precincts on Election Day, and they're setup for absentee voting.

Court Clerk Susan Kirk says, "It's the Ivotronic machines that the voters actually vote on, and it's also called the 650. That's for the absentee ballots. So we are testing both of these, to see if they are actually working."

http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=5505998&nav=3w6o

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47. WI: State voting machines under scrutiny

The Badger herald

by Dan Powell
Friday, October 6, 2006
The watchdog group Voter Action Wisconsin requested the State Elections Board decertify four types of touch screen voting machines Wednesday, calling them “inherently unreliable.” The board has yet to act.

“The petition is asking to decertify the direct record electronic, or DRE, voting systems,” Mike Wittenwyler, attorney for Voter Action Wisconsin, said. “It’s asking for the board to not use those in Wisconsin during the Nov. 7 election as a response to inherent technological problems.”

Wittenwyler added the complaint arose from studies showing the machines are open to fraudulent tampering and susceptible to human error.

http://badgerherald.com/news/2006/10/06/state_voting_machine.php

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48. PA: County upgrades voting machines

By: MARGARET GIBBONS, For The Reporter
10/06/2006

The decision to begin the upgrade came on the heels of Wednesday's state certification testing of the machine with the upgrade as well as the previously troublesome software.
"The machines worked great, as they always have, and the past software problems had been fixed and worked fine," said county voter services Director Joseph R. Passarella.
Passarella was in Harrisburg Wednesday during the testing.
At the conclusion of the testing, he said he discussed the results with both the examiner and officials from the Pennsylvania Department of State.
"After speaking with them, I determined there was no reason not to move forward with the upgrade," Passarella said Thursday.
The county will not receive formal written certification notice for about two weeks, he said. The examiner wants to make one final review of the test results and then the state department must sign off on it before formal certification is issued, he explained.
"With the election just a month away, we couldn't wait another two weeks and still have everything ready for the election," said Passarella.

http://www.thereporteronline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17292869&BRD=2275&PAG=461&dept_id=466404&rfi=6

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49. Businessweek:Ohio county hopes for glitch-free voting

OCT. 6 2:34 P.M. ET Election results were held up for six days in Cuyahoga County last May, testing the patience of voters and damaging their confidence.

The stakes are even higher this fall. The 1 million registered voters in the county named for a crooked river will help pick a new governor and decide whether to send Democrat Sherrod Brown to the U.S. Senate or return Republican Mike DeWine.

"Control of the Senate could hinge on a single seat," said Justin Buchler, political science professor at Case Western Reserve University. "If there's a delay in the DeWine-Brown race, there may be a delay in who controls the Senate."

Democrats need to gain 15 GOP-held seats in the House and six in the Senate to win control of Congress. Besides the DeWine-Brown contest, Cuyahoga will cast ballots in the key race in the House district Brown is leaving.
Ohio's most populous county will hold its second election in November using touch-screen voting machines made by North Canton-based Diebold Inc. The first attempt at electronic voting during the May primary was marred by problems, including poll workers who were not prepared to operate the machines and memory cards that were misplaced or lost.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8KJA3C80.htm

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50. Nigeria: Much ado about electronic voting system

Friday, Oct 6, 2006
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is reported to have invited the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the second time over the electronic voting system.

Nigeria awaits the reason for the motion by some senators and the subsequent invitation after the Chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu had assured the country of the dependability, credibility and workability of the system during his first invitation.

Knowing the importance of the 2007 election for Nigeria, no stone should be left unturned in preparing the stage for a credible election, but the reaction to the electronic voting system is becoming suspect.

The last time the National Assembly considered it, the major argument by some lawmakers were that the project would be too expensive; others said Nigeria was not mature for computerized voting, while some said that the country had not used that system before and should discard it.

http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=10/06/2006&qrTitle=Much%20ado%20about%20electronic%20voting%20system&qrColumn=EDITORIAL

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51. AR: Paper Ballots For General Election

The NEw County Times

By JEFF DEZORT
10/06/2006

JASPER - Newton County voters will have the option of voting a paper ballot in the general election Nov. 7. The Newton County Quorum Court authorized the move by passing a resolution presented to it Monday night, Oct. 2, by County Clerk Donnie Davis.

After dealing with problems with new state-purchased electronic touch screen voting machines in both the primary election last May and in the September school elections, Davis contacted the Secretary of State's Office for permission to return to paper ballots until such time as the problems with the electronic machines can be corrected.
Complaints of machine malfunctions were reported by poll officials during the prior elections. Davis said the problems could not be fixed "over the phone," and not enough poll officials were trained well enough on how to both operate and to maintain the touch screen voting machines. Many voters were uncomfortable using the machines, he added.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1815&dept_id=516632&newsid=17292681&PAG=461&rfi=9

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52. I've Had Enough With Privatization; THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!!!

Land Shark

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2869374&mesg_id=2869374


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with this post, this editor needs a drink....

over and out

:)

[FogerRox]

53. Herculean effort, VOTE THIS UP.

[JimDandy]

54. Great job RUMPEL. Give it FIVE votes in the next five minutes DUers!