UPDATE... Polling sites addressing glitch; ShortNameGate a non-issue
Here's the latest from our election protection folks:
Webb campaign staff have talked with the State Board of Elections. The State Board is going to make sure that there are posters explaining how to make sure your ballot matches your intended vote, and offering help from polling site staff. These posters are going to be at every affected polling site and booth, and on every machine.
We're working with elections staff and we're confident that they are doing all they can to prevent any vote from being miscast or uncounted. We think we're in pretty good shape.
Of course, the ideal solution would be to reprogam the voting machines themselves - but any software patch would need to be tested first to make sure it wouldn't affect the vote tally (we'd fight tooth and nail to make sure those tests were done) and those tests take a couple of weeks at the earliest - so the state doesn't have time to fix the software.
(For all you out-of-state election law junkies who are thinking "what about paper ballots?!?" - Virginia is a no-paper-ballot state, and the Help America Vote Act defers to state law on that issue. But we hear you. And we love that folks from across the country are lending a hand!)
More news as it breaks...
Webb campaign staff have talked with the State Board of Elections. The State Board is going to make sure that there are posters explaining how to make sure your ballot matches your intended vote, and offering help from polling site staff. These posters are going to be at every affected polling site and booth, and on every machine.
We're working with elections staff and we're confident that they are doing all they can to prevent any vote from being miscast or uncounted. We think we're in pretty good shape.
Of course, the ideal solution would be to reprogam the voting machines themselves - but any software patch would need to be tested first to make sure it wouldn't affect the vote tally (we'd fight tooth and nail to make sure those tests were done) and those tests take a couple of weeks at the earliest - so the state doesn't have time to fix the software.
(For all you out-of-state election law junkies who are thinking "what about paper ballots?!?" - Virginia is a no-paper-ballot state, and the Help America Vote Act defers to state law on that issue. But we hear you. And we love that folks from across the country are lending a hand!)
More news as it breaks...
Labels: names glitch, state board of elections
posted by b.t. at 2:22 PM
4 Comments:
Hey Gang,
We have a Public Access TV show that focuses on Dirty tricks the night before each election here in Northern Virginia... if you are in the area that night we would love to have you by the studios. If you will be in New England, we will gladly interview you by phone.... check out www.RadioInsideScoop.com and look at the videos as well..
Thanks for all you are doing and we will do our best to get the word out to all MSM as well....
Hey jim -
thanks for the invite :) We would love to talk, that's exactly what we're here for... I'm at the Webb campaign right now, and Lowell tells me he can get me your email. I'll contact you and we can talk about it more. Keep getting the word out!
I'm very concerned that while signage might solve the first level of problems, non-English speakers and persons with disabilities could have real problems due to the Hart Intercivic issue! What is being done to ensure that non-native speakering, blind and deaf voters are properly informed about the glitch and the changes?
Also, for those who think paper ballots are the solution, remember that there was fraud with paper ballots. Look up "Landslide Lyndon" [Baines Johnson] and votes turning up at the last minute or the 1960 Chicago dead people's vote which may have proved decisive in that year's presidential election.
that's a great question, daniel davis - everyone's asleep right now (except me, and I will be asleep soon). I'll see if I can't find you more information after daylight dawns...
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