From John Gideon: 3 days until Election Day.
Just a comment to those who want to dismiss 'vote-flipping' as voter error. All kinds of people go to the polls to vote. They are highly educated and high-school dropouts. Rich and poor. They have long fingernails and nails bitten to the quick. They have thin fingers and wide fingers. They are going to softly touch the screen or touch it hard. Vendors and election officials tend to blame vote-flipping on the voters. They touched the screen too hard; drug their finger; had long fingernails; or their fingers touched too large an area. So, is it the voters fault? NO! It is the vendors who designed, built and sold these machines that don't work for all voters and it is the election officials who bought those machines. A large majority of the 'vote-flipping' has been on older ES&S iVotronic DREs; those machines that were featured on last year's Dan Rather Reports. The cheaply built, poorly tested touch screens that were used as components on those systems should have been scrapped long ago. It's not the voters fault and this constant pointing of fingers is wrong. The vendors need to remember that when they point a finger at the voters they have three fingers pointing back at the real culprit, themselves; and it makes no difference what those fingers look like, they are the fingers of blame. National: The Technical Term for Voting Flaws: Human Error http://www.pubrecord.org/commentary/447.html?task=view National: Oprah's Vote Lost & How You Can Fight to Assure It Doesn't Happen to You! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/oprahs-vote-lost-how-you_b_140026.html National: Voter, election fraud charges fly as Election Day nears http://www.sacbee.com/175/story/1361905.html National: Voting Machine Incident Roundup, 11/1 http://blog.ourvotelive.org/?p=151 National: Voting Early: Sounds Good, But Its Not the Answer http://www.opednews.com/articles/Voting-Early-Sounds-Good-by-Stephen-Unger-081031-4.html National: Voters Eager to Have A Stake in Historical Election: Early Voting Predicts Strong Turnout Tuesday http://www.opednews.com/articles/Voters-Eager-to-Have-A-Sta-by-Project-Vote-081031-532.html AZ: Pima County - Pima vote count could be a slow, painstaking ordeal Full results may take days given large turnout, provisional ballots, new oversight guidelines http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/265199 AZ: Pima County - How vote problems will be addressed http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/265200 CA: Los Angeles County - Early voters tough it out http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_10872067 CA: San Mateo County - Directly connected democracy http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_10873448 CO: Larimer County - Long voting lines likely About 60,000 expected to cast their ballots on Election Day at vote centers http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/NEWS03/811010343 FL: Broward County - Close eye kept on Broward's polls As Election Day nears, some worry how Broward County's understaffed elections department will fare. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/750989.html GA: Lawyers across state plan to keep their eyes on voting procedures U.S. attorney, FBI will be on lookout for fraud, abuses http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/11/02/lawyers_1102.html GA: Georgia's Secretary of State Promotes Voter Challenges and Refuses to Extend Early Voting Hours http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/georgias_secretary_of_state_pr.php GA: Fulton, Clayton may extend voting hours on Tuesday http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2008/11/01/clayton_voting_extend.html MS: Lawmakers may call for earlier voting http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20081101/NEWS01/811010321 NC: Can N.C. handle 4.5 million voters? Concerns: Turnout, registration, software issues http://www.charlotteobserver.com/408/story/212534.html NH: Sort And Stack Elections In New Hampshire http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00011.htm NJ: Big voter turnout could test election system in NJ http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/UPDATES01/81101001 NJ: Central Jersey officials expect significant voter turnout on Election Day http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081101/NEWS/811020314/-1/newsfront NY: State restrictions put New York behind on early voting Limited exceptions hurt turnout, experts say http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/480605.html NY: New York's Voter Registration Database: Fact & Friction http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-yorks-voter-registration-database.html NY: Advocates concerned about language access at polls http://www.bakersfield.com/894/story/597192.html NY: NY State Board of Elections Halts E-Vote "Certification" Tests http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/2008/11/breaking-ny-state-board-of-elections.html OH: Succession of Voting Disputes Put Ohio Official in Spotlight http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122550106553589991.html?mod=googlenews_wsj OH: Franklin County - Paper-ballot must be offered if poll is busy http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/01/more_paper.ART_ART_11-01-08_B2_2UBP0PV.html?sid=101 OK: Pottawatomie County - Shawnee Election, Software Glitch Lend New Angle To National Vote http://www.shawneesun.com/articles/2008/11/01/news/03election.txt TX: Early Voting Records Broken In Smith County, Statewide http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20081101/NEWS15/811010328 TX: Wichita County - Final day of early voting ends strong Turnout steady at all six polling sites http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/nov/01/final-day-of-early-voting-ends-strong/ VA: NAACP to take lawsuit over voting machines to federal court http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/naacp-take-lawsuit-over-voting-machines-federal-court VA: Five-Hour Wait Today for Richmond Voters http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2008/11/five-hour_wait_today_for_richm.html **Articles and commentary included in "Daily Voting News" may not all reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or its allied organizations. 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