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Electronic voting system screen. Pointing finger of hand making vote selection on touch screen.
Generic version with candidates blurred out.
NOTE: If a company exists that is named "Election Systems, Inc." it is not my intention to represent this image as an actual product illustration. I chose the name "Election Systems, Inc." because I don't think that is a real company.
Electronic voting system screen. Pointing finger of hand making vote selection on touch screen. Features candidates for President including: Boughtin Paidfor, Stew G. O'Wallstree, Christian Poser, and Petro L. Cashman. Also displays candidates for Governor including: Alec Bagman, David Kochpawn, Charles Kochbot, and August Foxhost.
NOTE: If a company exists that is named "Election Systems, Inc." it is not my intention to represent this image as an actual product illustration. I chose the name "Election Systems, Inc." because I don't think that is a real company.
Well I decided to try the "wave of the future" and used the electronic voting machine today when I went to early vote in the primary.
Its relatively simple for those of us who are computer literate -- but I think its going to be a headache for others.
This model used a dial (to the right) to move the cursor from one position/candidate to another. It was easy to "over dial"...
In my opinion, a touch-screen voting system would be much easier for everyone to use and understand -- especially for the computer-challenged.
That said, I dislike the fact that there is not a paper trail. I dont care how many redundant back-ups there are. I want the piece of paper with MY pencil mark on it..
Oh well. Time marches on.
[sidebar: There are Braille characters underneath each of the buttons. Assuming you need the bralle to read, then just how are you going to know what you're voting on -- seeing as how if you need Braille, then you probably can't see the screen...hrmm.. now *I* am being a little bit redundant.]
Voting Tuesday in Michigan for the Presidential primary election: result was Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party. The voter is greeted at the entry by a table of pens and forms to enter personal particulars. Taking the form to the long set of tables in this photo, the computer person verifies the voter is enrolled (registered) for that address. A new law coming into effect on this occasion allows a person "same day registration" if proof of residence and government-issued form of identification document (drivers license, usually) is present. Another innovation in this state on this date is the "no excuse absentee voting" (previously a reason such as travel, health, or perhaps disability were among approved/accepted reasons to vote by absentee ballot).
In the middle of this table in the photo are "privacy protection sleeves" into which the actual optical scan paper ballot is secured. The counterfoil has the same number as the ballot and is torn off along the perforation by a volunteer from within the protection sleeve, even before any vote has been marked by darkening the box adjacent to the candidate's name. Some elections include local proposals and may include voting spaces on front and back of the tally machine. After marking the ballot, the voter places it into the privacy protection sleeve to take to the tabulator/tally machine, carefully inserting and waiting for the confirmation chirping sound and green light to indicate successful receipt of the voter's choices.
Since this is a city of Grand Rapids precinct, maybe there is some stipend for some of the workers who set up the voting stations for 7 a.m. early voters and clear up after polling places close at 8 p.m. But most jurisdictions depend on the help of trained elections volunteers to carry out the day's work.
Just before leaving the voting hall, staff invite the person to take a sticker with national colors and the words "I voted" to place on clothing that is visible to others and thus serve as unspoken reminder to turn up at one's voting place to cast a ballot.
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may 10,2010, the filipino people exercised their right to vote for change, for a better life, for leaders with integrity, for their children's future.
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Media centre at the Central Elections Commission
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Media centre at the Central Elections Commission
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Media centre at the Central Elections Commission
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
Moldovan citizens, including a record number of those living abroad, cast their votes during early parliamentary elections on 28 November. This year’s voter turnout was higher than any other previous elections.
Learn more about the 2010 elections in Moldova
The Lineup
And there's undervote that's unreported. You can give your opponents' precincts bad voting machines-or don't give them machines at all. In Jacksonville, Florida, the Republican elections supervisor, knowing of the long lines expected in 2004 in Black precincts, removed several of them. In Ohio, with the high turnout expected, the same trick was repeated, leaving Black people and students in suspiciously selected precincts to wait in line for seven hours or more. It was systemic and measurable.
The chart above looks like a dark, ugly bacterium devouring a defense- less cell. This is statistician Joe Knapp's "scattergram" of the suspicious placement of voting machines in Franklin County (Columbus), Ohio, con- firmed by a nearly identical finding by Elizabeth Liddle of the University of Nottingham in Britain. The attacking splotch represents the Bush- majority precincts, the white ones getting eaten, Kerry's precincts. In fancy math, it tells us what any bonehead knows: Make people wait seven hours and some will have to leave. The result, Knapp's precinct-by-precinct cal- culation, was no less than 17,000 votes lost, cutting Kerry's net vote by 9,971 in Columbus alone. Congressional investigators, albeit Democrats, thought "hundreds of thousands of votes" were lost statewide. My own es- timate is far more conservative, 85,950 frustrated voters. The trick is, as Knapp and Liddle's bug-war chart shows, the machines were strategically allocated, with the rich getting machine-richer, and the poor getting machine-poorer polling stations. Kerry lost 71,542 votes versus 14,408 lost to Bush.
The point is not the quibbling over the number, higher or lower. The issue is, who's watching the machine allocation in 2008? Like an Agatha Christie mystery, we get to guess where vote boxes will disappear next.
[Excerpted from Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast]
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In a Philadelphia warehouse nearly four thousand Danaher ELECTronic 1242 electronic voting machines wait for election day.
The GOP seemed to get awfully lucky with registration switches to the Republican Party in critical counties in swing states. There were the switches in "Little Texas" in New Mexico, and an amazing number of Florida college students, at least 4,000 of them, mostly African- American, who switched to the Republican Party a month before the No- vember 2004 election.
However, Ion Sancho, the non-partisan elections supervisor in Tallahassee, became suspicious when he received a registration switch from one new Republican: his stepdaughter. Look at this signature; it's not a bad forgery. The students, it turns out, thought they had signed a petition to legalize use of marijuana for medical purposes. Covered over by the "legalize pot" sign-up sheet was a registration change form. The form requires two signatures. The second signature was forged, copied from the one obtained by the "pot" fraud. The students, doubly registered, then lost their right to vote altogether. Elections supervisor Sancho immediately called the cops, but Governor Jeb Bush's state police informed him that they would be too busy to investigate until after Election Day. They never did.
In Ohio, it was much simpler. Statistician Anthony Fairfax discov- ered that Black voters were twice as likely as white voters to have their mail-in registrations simply rejected. In Congresswoman Katherine Har- ris's district in Florida, Democrats found that, though they submitted registration forms on time, they were entered on the voter rolls only after the deadline, barring them from voting in the Presidential race.
[Excerpted from Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast]
Computer science and engineering faculty member Patrick McDaniel's work includes studying security of electronic voting machines, like these at the Willowbank Building in Bellefonte in 2008. (Photo credit: Gene Maylock)
"examiner.com ONLINE TODAY: asdfasdf asdfasdf"
That's what appeared in yesterday's San Francisco Examiner, in relation to a newswire story about hackers handily defeating the electronic voting machines that California is foolishly thinking of deploying.
John Lott, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC.:
“I think a lot of the discussion about disenfranchising African American voters...they weren’t able to identify even one person.”
At a press conference in Boston, Michael Moore holds up my computer displaying evidence of the illegal purge of Black voters from registries.
This photo is included here to convince progressive-minded Americans of the importance of buying this book, one of several creative and craven marketing ploys I use to overcome American resistance to information not channeled through celebrities.
(Photo: Matt Pascarella, 2004)
[Excerpted from Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast]
Willie Steen, Florida Orthopedic Center, Tampa, Florida:
“I went into the place to vote and I was with my son and there were about 40 to 50 other people around and I got up there to vote and they told me I was a convicted felon. I told the young lady that I had never been arrested. I’ve never been arrested in my life. I was in the military for four years and have been in the medical field ever since. You can’t even work for a hospital being a convicted felon...I was in the Persian Gulf War in ’91. It’s pretty screwed up how they did me, but what can I say?
“I was upset. I was ashamed—with 40 people around—it made me
feel real bad. And I’m just hoping I get a letter stating, hey, you can vote again, Willie.
“I really feel it was bad for African-Americans—but hey, what can we do sometimes? What can we do?”
[Excerpted from Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast]
"His dad called then Lt. Gov. Barnes ... to get his son ... in the Guard ..." The BBC obtained this memo in 1999 from the Justice Department U.S. Attorney's Office in Texas.