BBV: Tuesday Feb 3 Primarys, tell us what you see and hear

[GregD]

Tuesday offers a number of Primaries, and Verified Voting is asking for help. Iowa was "counting noses" and New Hampshire is 100 percent paper. This is the first Primary in 2004 featuring paperless in some areas... We are hoping you will be our eyes.

Arizona Preference Election, Delaware Primary, Missouri Primary, New Mexico Caucuses, North Dakota Caucuses, Oklahoma Primary, South Carolina Preference Primary

This page includes links to ElectionLine, where they show what basic equipment is in use by county. We'd like to keep track of what paperless touch screen equipment you see out there, so if you can, send them to us at [e-mail]

We have created a new message board secion for reporting your stories. We are hoping to learn about any reports of: equipment problems, illegal harrassment, videotaping in precints, suspicious people with laptops in precincts - all that weirdness that folks spotted last November.

Also in November, we saw stories (for example in Texas) where the news was pretty bad early in the day, and later in the day the same story sounded like nothing happend. They literally changed the character of the story mid-day. Please watch for machine failure news stories, and when you do, please consider copy and pasting the whole story, them e-mail it (HTML is fine) to [e-mail]

Keeping this bumped into Wednesday will be much appreciated. Thanks to one and all.

www.VerifiedVoting.org


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[GregD]

1. kick

[leftchick]

2. Hey Greg....

Did you post this in the 2004 primary forum also? Thanks and great work!

:bounce:

[GregD]

3. I did now

[GregD]

4. any news folks?

[leftchick]

5. kick

:kick:

[SpiralHawk]

6. A wee personal story of frustration in Santa Fe, NM

I switched from I to D in Dec. so I could vote in our caucus. I have been trying for 2 days to find the location of the school where I must go to cast my ballot. I have searched street directories, the phone book, the internet, and the NM Democratic parties so-called web site. They all give the name of the school, and they all give different spellings of the street name. No matter, can't find any of the spellings in any of the directories.

I have finally dispatched an e-mail to the NM Dem party, and am hoping for an answer before 7 when the polls close. I will cast my ballot or pop a corpuscle trying. But why have they made such a mess of it?

The County has completely messed up hundreds of absentee Dem ballots in the weeks leading up to today, apparently depriving about 400 SF country residents of their caucus vote (many hundreds more in other counties around the state).

Finally, to add insult to injury, today is also the day of the Mill Levy vote to support the county schools. If I want to cast a ballot in that, I have to drive back about 20 miles south of town to another school where that election is being held.

Is this any way to run an election?

Signed, A frustrated Democrat (at least until after I cast my ballot when I am going back to Independent faster than a hog can skitter across a frozen pond), SH

[Robbien]

7. Just took a look at the Senate calendar

And saw this for 2/02/04 calendar :

The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:

. . .

By Mrs. BOXER:

S. 2045. A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent record or hardcopy under title III of such Act, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

I know this doesn't answer your voting question, but this was the only BBV thread on DU today. Didn't want to start a new thread in case everyone already knew this was happening.