Clint only doing audits in 4 counties; any volunteers 4 Dade, Broward, Lee,Sumter, or Charlotte ?

[philb]

Clint only doing audits in 4 counties; any volunteers 4 Dade, Broward, Lee,Sumter, or Charlotte ?
Edited on Wed Nov-22-06 05:05 AM by philb
Clint is only organizing audits in 4 counties; any volunteers for Dade, Broward, Lee, Sumter,Charlotte where UVs
were high and some other problems noted??

If there were enough volunteers, there were counties with
lots of undervotes on ES&S touchscreens in Attorney Geneneral race as well as switching reported on those machines
where I would like to see audits of some precincts.

I'd like to see some audits in Broward and Dade which were the 2 counties
with the most problems in 2004, and which also appear to have had stuff going on in 2006 on ES&S touch screens.
Any volunteers for Dade and Broward?
Or Lee?
or Charlotte?
or Sumter?
or Hillsboro? (suspicious results in some close races on Sequoia touch screens)


all that would be needed would be some precinct lists from precincts with high UVs or reported switching, a
vailable from candidate or party or
SOE(for a little money), plus some volunteers to call or canvas.
Its not that hard to organize.

(I'd be willing to help from afar, I'm a statistician with experience in canvasing)

[philb]

1. Same ballot design flaws/bias found in Dade & Broward that plagued Jennings in Sarasota

Same ballot design flaws/bias found in Broward & Dade that plagued Sarasota

ELECTIONS 2006
Ballot design an issue in Broward and Dade, tooA close look at election numbers in Broward and Miami-Dade counties shows that confusing ballot design might have caused voters to overlook two Cabinet races.
BY TRENTON DANIEL AND BREANNE GILPATRICK
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Document | Sample ballot
The same electronic ballot design flaw implicated in more than 18,300 Sarasota nonvotes might have caused problems for South Florida voters in two well-publicized Cabinet races.

Both Broward and Miami-Dade counties recorded more than 34,000 nonvotes in their elections for attorney general and chief financial officer, according to election results from each county's Supervisor of Elections office.

The problem was worse in precincts with many older voters.

In both counties, the two Cabinet races appeared at the bottom of a voting screen with the higher-profile race for governor and lieutenant governor -- a contest in which seven sets of candidates nearly filled the screen. All races on the page were listed under a general heading.

One explanation is that many voters assumed the governor's race was the only one on the page, touched the ''next'' button and moved on through the ballot without noticing the two races.

In Sarasota, where the 13th Congressional District race also occupied the same page as the governor's race, experts have blamed the design problem for 18,382 nonvotes in one of the nation's most contested congressional races.

Voting machine malfunctions could have contributed to some of the nonvotes, said Stephen Ansolabehere, a member of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project. Voters also may have decided to skip the race intentionally.

But the high number of nonvotes potentially related to the design -- throughout Florida -- signals a need to re-evaluate some of the state's electronic voting technology, Ansolabehere said.

''In general it's a good rule of thumb to have one office per screen,'' said Ansolabehere, who is also a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ``It really minimizes confusion as to what you're doing.''

The canvassing board certified election results Friday in Broward and Miami-Dade, and acknowledged the significant number of nonvotes in the two races.

''I think looking at that page you may not see those two races,'' Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes said.

Sarasota, Broward and Miami-Dade counties all use the same touch-screen iVotronic machines, which are produced by Election Systems & Software.

Each county designs its own ballots.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/16042973.htm