The NAACP and Advancement
Project have sued the VA Governor and the state’s top
election officials for failing to provide enough resources
to accommodate expected record turnout next week. The suit
claims the state is in violation of the US and state
constitutions and that a failure to fairly distribute voting
machines, poll workers and polling places will result in
long-lines in some neighborhoods. The suit asks the state
to move voting machines to precincts most like to have long
lines; keep polls open longer and to use paper ballots in
some cases.
Also this morning is the revelation that
some Georgia polling places have had lines with as long as 8
hours waiting time due to their voter registration data base
being slow. The state claims that the problem is the turnout
but that explanation does not make sense in the real world.
The number of poll site computers feeding into the central
data base computer dictates how fast that system is; not the
number of voters. On election day there will be many, many
more poll site computers all feeding into the central
computer at the same time. Things will probably get much,
much slower and lines will grow longer....
Featured - VA: NAACP Sues Officials Over
Vote Preparations High-Minority Areas Affected, Group Says
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Featured - GA:
COUNTDOWN 2008: Computer woes slow Georgians at polls LINK
National: Cutting
Through E-Voting Debate Semantics LINK
National:
Interview: Brad Friedman On The Epic Fail Of 2008 LINK
National:
Provisional Ballots Get Uneven Treatment LINK
National:
Election Unspun Oct 28 - Vote Switching At Voting Machines
LINK
National:
E-Voting Complaints Heat Up With Early Voting LINK
National:
UCSB’s Giovanni Vigna Gives Timely Talk on Why Electronic
Voting Is Frighteningly Insecure LINK
West Virginia:
Ireland: Testing OKs touch screen voting machines LINK
West Virginia:
Touch-screen machines vetted Ireland invites voters
experiencing problems to call her office LINK
West Virginia:
Opinion - Jason Williams - Voting machines overseen LINK
West Virginia:
Voting machines remain a concern LINK
West Virginia:
ES&S VP Given 'Award of Merit' By WV SoS LINK
Germany: Court to
Examine Security of Electronic Voting LINK
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