Daily Voting News For March 20, 2007
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Some HR-811 proponents state that while DREs may be bad we have them now and we need to fix what we have.
My problem with this thinking is that we are talking about elections; not a line of computers. Think about those things
you know about for a minute. If your University purchased a specialized computer that failed as much as DREs do; would
your University keep it and try to fix it for the future or would you send it back and go somewhere else? If you used an
online legal library that was missing references; would you keep using that library or pay the money to change to
another one? I know that when I was doing nuclear refueling on Naval ships if I had a tool that failed constantly, use
of that tool would be stopped immediately and something else would be designed for use.
The big issue is that the special computer would never have gone on the market; the reference library would never have
gone online; and the tool would never have been sold to the Navy. Industry does not work that way.
Why is it that our elections are not as important as our work? Why is it that it's alright to allow a technology that
has constantly failed to continue to be used? And why is it that we can continue to use it while trying to fix the
problems? How many votes are to be lost, flipped, or not counted while we continue to allow the use of the machines that
are responsible for the loss, flipping and not counting? ...
NAtional: Why Audits Are Necessary LINK
National: Challenge To Opponents Of Electronic Ballots Ban LINK
National: Steve Rosenfeld Critical of Our Call for a DRE-Ban in Article Published Today at AlterNet Says 'Voting Machine
Purists Should Not Let The Perfect be the Enemy of the Good' We Disagree With Both the Premise and the Conclusion... LINK
Florida: Sarasota County - Florida officials warned of e-voting glitch prior to election Losing candidate says slow
response times may have caused undervote in Sarasota County LINK
Illinois: Kane County - Clerk proposes more eSlates LINK
Illinois: Kane County - Kane panel approves check covering purchase LINK
New Jersey: Suit Prompts New Jersey to Reinvent Voting System LINK
New Jersey: Judge urges state to raise bar on electronic voting machines LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Forced resignations and stiff prison sentences intensify the escalating blowback from Ohio's
2004 stolen election LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - GOP boss battles Mason LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County – Opinion - Out with the old Cuyahoga Board of Elections can use some new blood, and more than one
member who pays attention to the job LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Election board told to resign LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Brunner moves to oust board Citing voting problems, she tells Cuyahoga County elections
officials to resign or be fired LINK
Ohio: Montgomery County - Voting machine problems in Dayton LINK
Ohio: Montgomery County - Machines record votes inaccurately in tests Touch-screens failed in more than 24 of 62 devices
tested in Montgomery County after voters complained LINK
Ohio: Montgomery County - Calibration problems found in voting machines LINK
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John Gideon Executive Director www.votersunite.org and Member www.votetrustusa.org