VotersUnite! Daily Reports Continue to Point Up Corrupt, Inept Election

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11/16/2004 Late counting AR
Lonoke County. Certification of the election totals likely will not be done until Friday, the deadline for certification, Jean McCanliss, chairman of the Lonoke County Election Commission, said on Monday. http://www.carlisleindependent.com/Pages/11-10-04/County%20election%20still%20being%20counted,%20delay%20caused%20by%20missing%20member.html

11/16/2004 Provisional ballots CA
Alameda County. Students at Berkeley were given provisional ballots when they chose the option for paper mandated by the Secretary of State. In one precinct nearly half the ballots were provisional. http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=11-16-04&storyID=20110

11/16/2004 Machine malfunction CT
Norwalk. The state Elections Enforcement Commission will consider whether to penalize the city's registrars of voters for failing to fully merge the city's voter rolls with the state's centralized voter system. The registrars said they tried to comply with the Help America Vote Act, but experienced problems, such as the elimination of voters, each time the local rolls were converted to the state registry. http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-nor.registrars5nov16,0,2258506.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines

11/16/2004 Absentee ballots (error) FL
Escambia County. While the machines accurately counted the number of absentee votes, they began feeding an incorrect result into the office's computers. The tabulation error showed more than 85% turnout, when it was closer to 75%. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/16/State/Escambia_voters_had_a.shtml

11/16/2004 Malfeasance FL
The unmarked brown box sat unnoticed in the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections office until Monday, two weeks after the election, when an employee cleaning a desk stumbled upon it. Inside were 268 uncounted absentee ballots. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/16/Tampabay/Pinellas_ballot_box_s.shtml

11/16/2004 Election law IN
Indiana's law has a quirk many voters may not realize. Voters who vote a straight ticket but want to vote for candidates of another party in multi-candidate races like at-large council will lose all votes for candidates in that race from their own party. If a voter votes a straight Democratic ticket but picks one Republican in the at-large race, no votes count for the Democratic candidates. Only the Republican vote is counted. http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041116/NEWS01/411160333/1008

11/16/2004 Machine malfunction IN
Ripley County discovered an error with Fidlar Election Co. (Diebold) optical scan memory cards, Ripley County Clerk Ginger Bradford said. The memory cards that count the votes in optical scanners had the wrong precinct labels, so the cards were sent back to the company to be reprogrammed. http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041116/NEWS01/411160333/1008

11/16/2004 Machine malfunction IN
Brown County, which uses ES&S optical scanners, considered recounting votes in one precinct because the tally tape produced by the scanner showed 63 unvoted ballots. However, the law doesn't allow the election board to reject certification by the precinct board, so they didn't do anything. http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041116/NEWS01/411160333/1008

11/16/2004 Machine malfunction IN
Carroll County, with optical scanners from Election Systems and Software (ES&S), had to handcount county council votes in its 19 precincts on election day. The Indiana Election Commission determined the computer program didn't comply with Indiana law for that office, Carroll County Clerk Laura Sterrett said. http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041116/NEWS01/411160333/1008

11/16/2004 Registration fraud IN
Hendricks County. 102 provisional ballots were given to voters who registered through registration drives, but whose names were not on the rolls. http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=2574896

11/16/2004 Machine malfunction OH
Sandusky County elections officials discovered some ballots in nine precincts were counted twice. The county doesn't yet know how it happened. http://www.thenews-messenger.com/news/stories/20041116/localnews/1601347.html

11/16/2004 Provisional ballots OH
Of the 11 counties that have completed checking ballots, 81 percent, or 4,277 out of 5,310 ballots, are valid, according to a survey Monday by The Associated Press. Most of the counties are in rural areas. http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20041116/localnews/1599347.html

11/16/2004 Machine malfunction UT
Utah County. Improperly programmed and inadequately tested punch card machines failed to count 33,000 straight-party votes. Once the problem was corrected and votes counted, Bush' lead went from 66% to 85% in the county. Republicans in other races also posted significant gains. http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2454128
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595105309,00.html

11/16/2004 Testing problem UT
Utah County. Because of inadequate testing, the county failed to find that the punch card readers were programmed incorrectly. "The test procedure would not have picked because the procedure itself was insufficient," Commissioner Jerry Grover explained. http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2454128

11/16/2004 Machine malfunction WA
Grays Harbor County. Elections officials started recounting about 28,000 ballots on Tuesday after the ES&S Unity reporting system showed too many votes. After ballots were counted, the results were saved on computer disks and downloaded into another computer to keep a running tally. Some of the disks were apparently downloaded twice by mistake. The Unity software is supposed to prevent that from happening. http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-11162004-401381.html
http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D86D7FA80.html


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