Well, here we are. Tomorrow is the day
we have been building toward. Today much of the news is
articles of reassurance from election officials across the
nation. They say they are ready. Tomorrow we will see just
how ready they are. Our main reporting tomorrow will be on
voting machine problems and long lines due to voting machine
and voter registration data base problems. No matter how
much officials assure their voters that they are ready
machines still fail to work, polls open late, votes are
flipped, polls run out of paper ballots, e-poll books fail,
machines are allotted unfairly, and lines will be long.
Wednesday and the rest of the week we will hear about the
tabulation and reporting problems. Lost votes from
tabulators that were not designed or built to handle the
number of votes they are expected to count; ballot printing
and programming errors that result in hundreds of lost
votes. These and more have been the stories of the past. Can
we expect any better for the rest of this week? I hope so
but I’m not holding my breath....
National: Tales from the trenches – More
election stories LINK
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National: Why
touchscreen voting machines suck LINK
National: Voting
Rights Watch: FL and GA leading states nationally for voter
complaints LINK
National:
Researcher teases out truth of election ballots LINK
National: Opinion
- Will your vote count tomorrow? LINK
National:
E-Voting's Biggest Test The 2008 presidential election could
be shaken by flawed electronic voting technology. LINK
National: Fears
of US ballot-box overload trigger citizens' army LINK
National: Voter
Integrity Group Urges Preservation of Unadjusted National
Exit Poll LINK
National:
E-voting Groups Are Watching a Handful of States LINK
National: Ed
Felten on E-voting: What Can Go Wrong LINK
National: A Brief
History of Ballots In America LINK
National:
Editorial - Pitfalls at the polls Congress and the president
need to create uniform, national standards for voting
procedures and ballots. LINK
Ohio: Ohio: Suit
Filed for Election Observers, "Dial Up" Provisional
Ballots, and a Comment LINK
Ohio: A Hard
Rain's A-Gonna Fall How is Jennifer Brunner, Ohio's
embattled Secretary of State, holding up as the election
(and the likely accusations of impropriety) approach? LINK
Pennsylvania:
Penn students help protect the vote LINK
Pennsylvania:
Voting disputes can be immediately challenged LINK
Virginia: Federal
judge to hear NAACP election lawsuit today LINK
West Virginia:
Carper calls for re-evaluation of voting system Several
voters say machines switched their selections LINK
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