Absentee votes may(will) delay Ohio results

[Algorem]

Absentee votes may delay results

http://www.cleveland.com/election/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1161765666260920.xml&coll=2

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Joan Mazzolini
Plain Dealer Reporter

Elections officials in large and small Ohio counties say they can't count all their absentee ballots in time to provide results on Election Day, unless they can start scanning them days earlier.

But the secretary of state's office has told Cuyahoga and Lucas counties, which asked for advice, that state law does not allow counting absentee ballots before 12:01 a.m. Election Day...

Completing the scans by 8 p.m. is critical. A Diebold Election Systems computer server that Cuyahoga bought can't download absentee ballot information at the same time it downloads votes from the touch-screen machines used in polling places.

"We will do it as just as quick as we can get it done," said Cuyahoga County elections board Chairman Bob Bennett(Chairman,Ohio Republican Party).



Scattered woes in the forecast for Election Day
New equipment, rules may become sources of trouble

http://www.cleveland.com/election/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1161765820260920.xml&coll=2

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Sabrina Eaton
Plain Dealer Bureau

Washington- Groups that monitor elections anticipate problems around the country on Nov. 7 as new election systems are broken in and new voter registration and identification laws present potential pitfalls.

Ohio is among 10 states where new election procedures and tight contests could lead to delayed election results, recounts, challenges and other controversies, said Doug Chapin of Electionline.org, a nonpartisan election research group that scrutinizes election reforms...

Blackwell spokesman James Lee said that the secretary of state's office expects a smooth election and that Blackwell can impartially fulfill his elections duties given that "Ohio's secretaries of state have run for other offices for generations in this state." He called the group "ill-informed."

"In all that you've described to me, I haven't heard any issue that was brought up by Electionline.org that had any basis in truth or fact," Lee said.


Summit absentee ballots delayed to fix errors

http://www.cleveland.com/election/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/1161765357260920.xml&coll=2

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Karen Farkas
Plain Dealer Reporter

Akron - ...

"We look like we're incompetent, while it is the company that is incompetent," said elections board member Wayne Jones, referring to Election Systems & Software, the Omaha, Neb., maker of the county's optical scan voting machines. ES&S is responsible for contracting with a printer to provide ballots. It chose Miami Printing of Cincinnati.

Don Mummey of ES&S told the board that printing was initially delayed for several reasons, including a change in the wording on one ballot issue. The ballots had to be corrected because a software glitch made the digital printers unable to read them.

Mummey was unable to explain why issues and candidates on three pages were printed correctly but errors, including words that ran together, abounded on the fourth page...

Board members said they planned to bill ES&S for overtime and costs for temporary workers.




thurs.,npr
http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/06/10/26.php#11452

10:00Electronic Voting Machines
Topic and guests to be announced




And Everybody is Okay With This?

http://www.wruw.org/guide/show.php?show_id=334

with Victoria (Lovegren)

Thursdays 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Genre(s): Public Affairs

I will be reading articles, playing tapes of speeches/programs, interviewing guests, and playing music that will heighten public awareness of government and corporate abuses and empower people to participate in true democracy.


http://wecount2006.org/radioblog

[wakeme2008]

1. I know in Florida that scan all that have come in

a couple days before the election. They call of the political partys and tell them the time of the scanning and they can have a representative present. This seems to work well.

[texpatriot2004]

2. Count ALL the votes nm

[liberal N proud]

3. They are looking for any way they can to screw this election

delays, problems with machines, not enough machines, purged voters.... It just doesn't end with the bull shit under this regime.

[BillORightsMan]

4. TOTN had a discussion yesterday

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6375956">Questions Raised About Security of Voting Technology

Talk of the Nation, October 24, 2006 · The mid-term election is two weeks away, and questions remain about new voting machines. Guests examine the technology that will be available on Election Day. Can you count on your vote being counted?

Guests:

Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services

Paul Degregorio, chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission

Douglas Jones, associate professor of computer science at the University of Iowa

Check the site for the audio...
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