Election Reform, Fraud, & News Sunday 11/26/06 - 2006 Turkey Of The Year ?

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Election Reform, Fraud, & News Sunday 11/26/06

The 2006 Turkey of the Year is one tough old bird

Marilou Johanek
The Toledo Blade

FOR nearly 10 years, my Turkey of the Year award has gone to the winner of the biggest loser competition. Some years the choice is a no-brainer - not unlike the winning contestant. Other times the sheer number of human variety turkeys, who should all be given the bird, makes the selection process a tad challenging.
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One particularly impressive loser walked away with a Turkey trophy twice in a row. That distinction, of course, belongs to Ohio's own Bob Taft. It is no source of pride that the hugely unpopular and convicted governor was head and shoulders above the field of failures in 2004 and 2005.
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Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. Without question, Republicans had a banner Turkey year in 2006. They outdid themselves in the disgrace, deception, and debacle department. Polls said voters named political corruption as the No. 1 reason they swept the turkeys out of office.
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At first the sure bet for the 2006 Turkey of the Year appeared to be Ken Blackwell and his traveling revival show that inspired his landslide defeat for governor of Ohio. Running neck and giblet for most transparent Turkey in Ohio - and Arizona - was big tobacco and its richly financed smoke screen that voters in both states saw through and rejected. But the day after the elections, when it was abundantly clear how angry voters across the nation were with the Bush Administration's colossal failure at nation-building, the White House came up with a winning loser.

The choice was a turkey of renowned arrogance and murky military thinking. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had micromanaged the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq with the promised shock and awe alacrity. Then he punted on the post-invasion and laid the foundation for the chaos that followed.
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After nearly four years of perpetrating a deadly lie in Iraq Donald Rumsfeld has been plucked clean of any redeeming value to the country. He slinks away from the carnage he helped create as a monumental loser. The 2006 Turkey Award belongs to him in the worst way. It's the least he deserves for damage done.
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http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061124/COLUMNIST13/611230344/-1/NEWS30
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1. NAT: Election Won, Election System Broken

Election Won, Election System Broken

Stephen Crockett
American Chronicle
November 25, 2006

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=17158

American voters should not think that our election system is working fine just because control of Congress changed hands in 2006. The election system nationally, and likely in your local community, is broken!

We do not have reliable, standard voting procedures and equipment in every community. Many voting machines are still not reliable and can be easily corrupted. Vote counting is still in private hands and controlled by a small number of “for profit” corporations. Voting rights are still being manipulated, and often denied, by partisan officeholders. Elections are still hugely expensive and more advertising exercises than public discussions of issues and policies. The right to have your vote counted honestly and correctly is still not Constitutionally guaranteed.

We have an election crisis. The system must be fixed. Both national and state Constitutions should be amended to guarantee uniform equipment in all voting jurisdictions, that all votes be honestly and correctly counted and that all citizens residing in a jurisdiction should have the right to vote.

No government, at any level, should be allowed to restrict voting rights by any group of citizens except those currently institutionalized in mental facilities or jails. Of course, non-citizens residing in the community should not be permitted to vote. ID laws should not be used to restrict voting rights of the poor. All citizens should automatically be registered when drivers’ licenses are applied for, school enrollments registered or Social Security cards issued. All citizens should be able to enroll by using postcards mailed to all addresses in the nation. Any type of ID should be accepted.

Penalties for double voting or voting by non-citizens should be severe. Strong felony charges and long sentences should be imposed on anyone attempting to rig elections. The strongest penalties should be faced officeholders who systematically deny the voting rights of large groups of citizens or who corrupt honest vote counts.
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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=17158

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2. NAT: A Canary in the Electronic Coal Mine

An Electronic Canary

E. J. Dionne Jr.
The Washington Post
November 24, 2006
Re-Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112300965.html

Americans can be grateful that Sarasota County is in Florida and not in Montana or Virginia.

There's nothing wrong with Sarasota, a lovely place. But if the voting snafus in the contest for Florida's 13th District had hung up either of this year's two closest Senate races, we still would not know which party had won control of the Senate.
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Supporters of new voting technologies have been patting themselves on the back, saying there were no big voting problems this year. Let them go to Sarasota.
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Imagine if 18,000 votes had just disappeared in either of the key Senate races. Or imagine a presidential election in which the electoral votes of Florida were decisive and the state was hanging in the balance by -- to pick a number that comes to mind -- 537 votes. And, by the way, in 2000 we could at least see those hanging and dimpled chads. In this case the votes have -- poof! -- simply disappeared.
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But there is good news here: This is a problem in just one congressional district. Control of the House does not depend on how this race turns out. It is therefore in the interest of both parties, not to mention the country, to be simultaneously aggressive and judicious in figuring out what went wrong in Sarasota and to use that knowledge to fix the nation's voting system before a major disaster strikes. Sarasota is the canary in the electronic coal mine.

The U.S. Supreme Court has insisted that "aving once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over that of another." Thousands of voters in the 13th District have an interest in demanding that the system live up to those words, which came from the decision in a little case in 2000 called Bush v. Gore.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112300965.html

[Peace Patriot]

12. It's great to see national discussion of FL-13--it's much needed. But...

E.J. Dionne is just plain wrong that privatized electronic voting has not yet caused "a major disaster." Clearly it did in the Georgia Senate race in '02. And then there's '04--the main purpose of this electronic voting coup, to manufacture an endorsement of the Iraq War and multiple tax cuts for the rich, with a $10 TRILLION deficit. I am speaking of the "major disaster" of George Bush. You can't have an unjust, unnecessary and heinous war, in a democracy--with 56% of the people opposing it before it even started (Feb. '03)--without fixing the elections. That's what they did. In a coup engineered by the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney (abetted by corporatist 'Democrat' Christopher Dodd), our election system was turned over to two BUSHITE electronic voting corporations, to be run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, in extremely unreliable, insecure and insider hackable voting machines and central tabulators, fast-tracked across the country with $3.9 billion in boondoggle funding--the so-called "Help America Vote Act" of 2002. No paper trail required. No audit required. Secret industry "testing" of the machines. Lavish lobbying. Private corporate programming of the vote tabulation code--code so secret that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review it.

Non-transparent elections are not elections. They are tyranny. And there is no reason to deliberately create non-transparent elections except to steal them.

The two main corporations that our election system was given over to are:

DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and

ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things). Diebold and ES&S have an incestuous relationship; they are run by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich.

These are the people who "counted" 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy.

I know this Election News thread is for posting mostly corporate news reports on election fraud and election reform. But I cannot let this E.J. Dionne misinterpretation of events go by without comment. So please forgive me, and accept this as news from me, one outraged citizen. The FL-13 election was NOT a "minor disaster." Loss of a Congressional seat to fraud cannot be considered "minor" in any way. True, it was not pivotal to Democratic control of Congress, and wasn't a Senate seat (which could have lost the Democrats control of the Senate). I'll grant him that. But to use these facts to say that it was not a "major disaster" minimizes and marginalizes what occurred in FL-13, and makes it sound like an unfortunate accident, when fraud is the much more likely explanation, and facts are still being gathered. But most disturbing is his typical corporate news monopoly interpretation of the facts of our election system. He promotes the view that the whole thing was an accident--that we accidentally have private corporations "counting" all our votes with secret programming. That we accidentally have voting machines that 'disappear' 18,000 Democratic votes. And that, gee, maybe it's time that we fix all these "mistakes."

The fraudulent voting system that was created by the "Help America Vote Act" was no accident and no mistake. It was rushed into place for the 2004 election. And it gave us one of the worst disasters in our history--George Bush's second term.

Also, if 18,000 Democratic votes can be 'disappeared' in Florida in one Congressional election, who's to say that lesser amounts of votes were not less noticeably 'disappeared' or changed in elections all over the country, to minimize the Democratic win, and give us a Congress that cannot impeach George Bush, cannot effectively re-assert the broken "balance of powers," cannot stop the war, and cannot enact desperately needed reforms. This needs to be stated. NON-TRANSPARENT vote counting means that we CANNOT KNOW. We can only infer. We can only guess. We can only contemplate certain statistics and wonder. And this situation is not just something we need to fix--it is outrageous. Grave harm has been done. Our most fundamental right--the very mechanism by which we exercise our sovereignty as a people--has been violated across the board, in nearly every state, and in all elections from 2002 to the present. This mild, and very late-in-the day, call of Dionne's to count all our votes NOW is much too forgiving--and, mark my words, this "forgive and forget" attitude will result in lots more money for Diebold and ES&S as they pledge to patch up all the problems with expensive new widgets, more secret code, and new and improved servicing by their private personnel. We've been scammed, friends. And we need to do more than merely patch up our election system; we need to scour it clean.

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3. NAT: Déjà Vu in Florida

Déjà Vu in Florida

Editorial
The New York Times
November 26, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/opinion/26sun2.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

One of the great hazards of the way electronic voting has been introduced in the United States is that it could end up undermining democracy by producing unreliable election results that cannot be truly audited or corrected. This month, that nightmare became a reality. Voting machines in a Congressional race in Florida — where else? — may have swallowed about 18,000 votes, far more than the nominal winner’s razor-thin margin of victory. Because those votes were in the loser’s strongest county, if there was a computer glitch it probably changed the outcome of the race.

Vern Buchanan, the Republican candidate in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, was certified the winner, with 369 more votes than the Democrat, Christine Jennings. But voting machines in Sarasota County produced about 18,000 “undervotes,” ballots on which the voter made other choices, but did not vote in the Congressional race. There have been reports of voters saying that their votes did not register when they chose Ms. Jennings, or that the race did not appear on their machines.

If the machines are to be believed — a big if — an extraordinary 14.9 percent of Sarasota County voters using the machines decided to skip the Congressional race, a highly publicized contest that voters knew could help decide which party controlled the House of Representatives. Among the absentee ballots, which were cast on paper, the undervotes were a more plausible 2.5 percent. The undervote rates in the district’s other counties were far less than in Sarasota County.

There is a good chance that if something went wrong it changed the result. Sarasota was Ms. Jennings’s strongest county, and The Orlando Sentinel’s analysis of the ballots that did not register a choice in the Congressional race found that the votes cast in other races were more Democratic than Republican — and by a margin of more than the 369 votes separating Mr. Buchanan and Ms. Jennings.

The Jennings campaign has filed a lawsuit challenging the results. There are, unfortunately, no voter-verified paper ballots, so all that can be done is to try to figure out what went on inside the “black boxes,” as critics call electronic voting machines that do not produce a paper record for each vote.

The campaign wants its experts to review the machines’ secret computer source code, the programming that runs the computer inside the machine, to look for problems. Election Systems and Software, the company that made the machines, is not saying whether it will allow this. If it resists, the courts should order the company to hand over the code — a requirement that should, in fact, be routine in all places where electronic voting machines are used.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/opinion/26sun2.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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4. FL: Analysis: Ballots favored Dems

Analysis: Ballots favored Dems. Sarasota's 'undervotes' were examined in 5 state races.

Jim Stratton
Orlando Sentinel
November 22, 2006
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-mvote2206nov22,0,1913349.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state

The group of nearly 18,000 voters that registered no choice in Sarasota's disputed congressional election solidly backed Democratic candidates in all five of Florida's statewide races, an Orlando Sentinel analysis of ballot data shows.

Among these voters, even the weakest Democrat -- agriculture-commissioner candidate Eric Copeland -- outpaced a much-better-known Republican incumbent by 551 votes.

The trend, which continues up the ticket to the race for governor and U.S. Senate, suggests that if votes were truly cast and lost -- as Democrat Christine Jennings maintains -- they were votes that likely cost her the congressional election.

Republican Vern Buchanan's 369-vote victory was certified by state officials Monday. His camp says that, although people may have skipped the race -- intentionally or not -- there is no evidence that votes went missing.

But the results of the Sentinel analysis, two experts said, warrant additional investigation.

"Wow," University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said. "That's very suggestive -- I'd even say strongly suggestive -- that if there had been votes recorded, she would have won that House seat."

David Dill, an electronic-voting expert at Stanford University, put it this way: "It seems to establish with certainty that more Democrats are represented in those undervoted ballots."
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-mvote2206nov22,0,1913349.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state

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5. FL: Saratosa Election Contest: Full Lawsuit Text

Complaint to Contest Election
http://voteraction.org/States/Florida/Legal/Sarasota_Election_Contest.pdf
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6. FL: Katherine Harris: Another Turkey of the Year Award!

Harris Stays Out of Vote Fight

Phil Davis AP
The Ledger, Lakeland FL
24 November 2006
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061124/NEWS/611240380/1004

SARASOTA - Katherine Harris is staying out of the bitter fight over the election results in the race to fill her congressional seat.

But the contested race is likely to further cement her political legacy with election controversy. The same touch-screen voting machines Harris praised in 2001 as an end to Florida's embarrassing election problems are now under national scrutiny after recording an unusually high number of voters as skipping the race to replace her in Congress.

The meltdown in Florida's 13th Congressional District is in many ways a microcosm of the 2000 Florida election fiasco that put George W. Bush in the White House.

A tight race. A confusing ballot. Allegations of massive voter disenfranchisement.

"These guys in Florida - embarrassingly - just keep getting it wrong," said Ted Selker, co-director of the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project.

Harris and Gov. Jeb Bush touted electronic voting as the end of election woes in Florida, where hanging chads and other punch-card voting mishaps made the state a national joke in the 2000 election. Harris, then-Florida's secretary of state, was key in awarding a win to George Bush by a margin of only 537 votes. The Florida win gave Bush the presidency and made Harris a Republican star, but also created widespread distrust in the state's vote counting process.

Harris backed an election overhaul law passed in 2001 that outlawed punch-card ballots in favor of touch-screen devices or optical scan machines that read paper ballots. After the machines won certification in Florida in August 2001, her office issued a statement calling touch-screen computers "a significant leap forward for Florida's voting systems."
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061124/NEWS/611240380/1004

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7. FL: Group Calls for New Election: Press Conference Video

Group calls for new election

Herald Tribune
November 26, 2006
The People for the American Way and other groups held a press conference today in Sarasota.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061115/VIDEO/61115029/-1/NEWS10

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8. FL: Cash still flowing through District 13 campaigns

Cash still flowing through District 13 campaigns

Duana Marsteller
The Herald, Bradenton FL
November 23, 2006
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16080577.htm

MANATEE - The 13th Congressional District election might have been held more than two weeks ago, but the fundraising and spending in the race haven't stopped.

Vern Buchanan's and Christine Jennings' campaigns are soliciting donations to defray costs associated with two state-mandated recounts, litigation over the election results and an upcoming state audit of Sarasota County's voting system.

The state and national Democratic and Republican parties also are raising money to help their party's candidate in the disputed race, which already had set a national fundraising record for a single House contest.

Several people involved in the fundraising efforts declined to divulge Wednesday how much money has been raised and spent since the Nov. 7 election.

"For strategic reasons we won't disclose any expenditures or fundraising amounts until we're required to do so," Buchanan campaign spokeswoman Sally Tibbetts said.
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http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16080577.htm

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9. FL: Jennings team: Test of machines flawed

Jennings team: Test of machines flawed
Candidate's lawyer says unused voting machines may not reveal problems.

Lloyd Dunkelberger
Herald Tribune
November 23, 2006
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061123/NEWS/611230371
TALLAHASSEE -- The first voting machine test in the disputed District 13 congressional election may not reveal much since state officials won't be probing machines actually used by voters in the election, a lawyer for Democratic candidate Christine Jennings said Wednesday.

"Testing unused machines -- rather than testing the machines that have actually exhibited the troubling symptoms -- will only further undermine public confidence in our electoral system generally and in the state's audit of this election in particular," Mark Herron said in a letter to the state's lawyers.

The state Division of Elections is scheduled to test four touch-screen voting machines from Sarasota County on Tuesday. It will be the first of two tests of a voting system that Jennings has alleged used faulty machines that resulted in more than 18,000 undervotes -- where no vote was registered -- in her heavily contested congressional race against Republican Vern Buchanan, who has been declared the winner.

But the initial test will use backup voting machines that were set up for the election but not deployed.

Secretary of State Sue Cobb said earlier this week that the state is prohibited from touching the machines actually used in the election until the official election "contest" period ends, which is Nov. 30.

"We cannot do anything with the machines that were actually used in the election themselves until the contest period runs," Cobb said on Monday.

Instead, the state will wait until Dec. 1 to conduct a second test of the Sarasota voting machines, using four touch-screens that were actually used in the election. The Jennings' campaign has asked, and the Division of Elections has agreed, to use machines from the election that had the highest undervote counts and came from precincts with the highest undervotes.
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http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061123/NEWS/611230371

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11. FL: Did rush to e-vote backfire on state?

Did rush to e-vote backfire on state? Counties embraced touch-screen machines after the 2000 problems. Now, most voters use the machines — but it hasn’t fixed the problems.

Adam C. Smith & Tamara Lush
St. Petersburg Times
November 25, 2006
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/25/State/Did_rush_to_e_vote_ba.shtml

After Florida’s hanging chad fiasco of 2000, a bipartisan task force set to work on how to make the recount state a national model for elections.

Among the recommendations: Counties should not rush into buying largely unproven touch screen voting machines, and instead use time-tested “optical scan” systems in which voters mark their choice on a paper ballot by filling in a bubble much like a standardized test.

Touch screens lack a paper trail for effective recounts of close races, the governor’s committee noted, and they have a record of producing more “undervotes” — where voters cast no vote — than other technology.

County leaders brushed off the report, saying touch screens were reliable and voter-friendly and would save money on paper ballot printing. In a bonanza for some high-powered lobbyists and voting machine corporations, local governments spent tens of millions of dollars on touch screen systems.

Five years later, most Florida voters use ATM-like touch screens, but nobody calls Florida the national model for elections. In fact, a growing chorus of skeptics say Florida blew it by so quickly embracing touch screen technology.

“I was quite concerned there was such a rush to go to touch screen, but the counties were heavily lobbied,’’ said former Secretary of State Jim Smith, a Republican who co-chaired the 2000 elections task force “If I could push a button I would say we ought to go back to the optical scan, which has proven it works and is very voter friendly. I want a system where the average voter is absolutely confident that their vote will count.’’

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/25/State/Did_rush_to_e_vote_ba.shtml

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10. IN: State commission blitzed by vote-recount requests

State commission blitzed by vote-recount requests

Indianapolis Star
November 23, 2006
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061123/LOCAL/611230486/1006/LOCAL

The Indiana Recount Commission met Wednesday to lay the groundwork for what state officials say is an unprecedented number of recounts being sought after the Nov. 7 election.
Four legislative races are being contested. Democrat Ed Mahern, Indianapolis, is seeking a recount after having lost his bid for re-election by seven votes to Republican Jon Elrod, Indianapolis.
Recounts also are being sought by:
Democrat Larry Hile, Hartford City, who lost to Republican Rep. Tim Harris, Marion, by 19 votes.
Republican Billy Bright, North Vernon, who lost his bid for re-election by 1,607 votes to Democrat David Cheatham, North Vernon.
Newton County Democratic Party Chairwoman Terri Pasierb, who is disputing the re-election of Rep. Donald Lehe, R-Brookston, by 27 votes over Democratic challenger Myron Sutton, Kentland.
In addition, Steve Osborn, the Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate, is asking for a recount of 10 precincts in his race against Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. Lugar beat Osborn by more than 1 million votes.
"I'm worried about getting five recounts done by December 20th," the statutory deadline for at least the House recounts to be completed, said Secretary of State Todd Rokita, who heads the three-member Recount Commission.
The commission will meet again Wednesday at the Statehouse to decide whether to grant all of the recount requests and set timetables for completion.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061123/LOCAL/611230486/1006/LOCAL

[Peace Patriot]

13. Thanks for these reports, FreedomFries! Good work!

Apologies again for interrupting the thread--but we've got to watch out for corporate news monopoly "framing" on this issue. The NYT, for instance, attributes FL-13 to a "computer glitch." And the corporate fallback position is obviously, touchscreens bad, optiscans good. But optiscans ALSO are controlled by TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming, as are the central tabulators. And look at the situation that leaves us in, with ES&S, a private corporation with very close ties to far rightwing causes, "deciding" whether or not they will "allow" the public to review their code in this outrageous theft of Jennings' victory. Optiscans are NOT good; they are merely somewhat better. But why put up with ANY secret code in our election system? And why keep rewarding these corporations with multi-millions in contracts, for all their lies and filthy lobbying and anti-democratic behavior? It IS those very multi-million dollar contracts that are making reform so difficult.

[livvy]

14. NYT:Experts Concerned as Ballot Problems Persist

November 26, 2006
Experts Concerned as Ballot Problems Persist
By IAN URBINA and CHRISTOPHER DREW

After six years of technological research, more than $4 billion spent by Washington on new machinery and a widespread overhaul of the nation’s voting system, this month’s midterm election revealed that the country is still far from able to ensure that every vote counts.

Tens of thousands of voters, scattered across more than 25 states, encountered serious problems at the polls, including failures in sophisticated new voting machines and confusion over new identification rules, according to interviews with election experts and officials.

In many places, the difficulties led to shortages of substitute paper ballots and long lines that caused many voters to leave without casting ballots. Still, an association of top state election officials concluded that for the most part, voting went as smoothly as expected.

Over the last three weeks, attention has been focused on a few close races affected by voting problems, including those in Florida and Ohio where counting dragged on for days. But because most of this year’s races were not close, election experts say voting problems may actually have been wider than initially estimated, with many malfunctions simply overlooked.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/us/politics/26vote.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

[freedomfries]

15. thanks PP and livvy!

Your warnings about the scanners are right on the mark, and the NYTimes Sunday article also belongs in this survey of half-baked reckoning of the MSM with the many perils of our post-NAVA brave new world of computer-"aided" elections! This is a turning point for the election protection movement in which we also play our part.
The crucial FL-13 lawsuit also deserves close reading and exposure. The interesting part is that it calls for public disclosure of the ES&S source code!
Thanks again for your welcome input!
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