http://www.wcti12.com/news/25482180/detail.html
New Bern -- Voters in Craven County are complaining that voting machines are selecting people they do not want to vote for. Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern and Diana Creel say the machines marked off candidates they did not want to vote for when they touched the screens on the voting machines.
NC: Problems At The Polls* (video)
http://www.wcti12.com/news/25483049/detail.html
Creel says a red flag went up for her while voting in Havelock when the woman in front of her began having problems with the voting machine.
"She had problems, whenever she checked a candidate, it always popped to another one," says Creel.
Creel says she had the same problem and she notified an election official who helped her sort out the machine, but then...
"I pressed confirm and the screen went totally black," tells Creel.
Now she says she isn't sure if her vote was counted.
NC: Voting irregularities discovered in Craven
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-c-2010-10-22-248252.112112-Voting-irregularities-discovered-in-Craven.html It has been reported that some voting machines in the state are malfunctioning. But we have been told by Kellie Hopkins, Elections Director of Beaufort County that no such problems have been identified in Beaufort County. Beaufort County does not use the same kinds of machines that have been reported to be causing problems.
(also talks about DC internet voting pilot hack)
NC: Political E-Mails Spark Complaints at Winston-Salem State U.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/political-e-mail-messages-spark-complaints-at-winston-salem-state-u/27779 ...The Republican Party has also asked the Forsyth County Board of Elections to take Winston-Salem State University off its list of eight early-voting sites scheduled to open on October 25.
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The county's elections director, Robert H. Coffman, said the university, which has been hosting early voting on its campus since 2004, simply provides a venue for voting. Closing the site will affect everyone in the surrounding community, he said, not just the university. "I'm confused on the logic on exactly who's being punished," he said.
NY: It's another 'royal screwup' as sample ballots are printed with wrong directions for voters http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/22/2010-10-22_its_royal_screwup_redux_as_sample_ballots_are_printed_with_wrong_instructions_el.html
A vote for Republican Carl Paladino could actually be a vote for Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins - if you follow the directions printed on the November ballot.
NY: Board of Elections Practices Damage Control For Their Incorrect Ballots*
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/127583/voting-instructions-incorrect-on-ballots
NY: About those "Vote by Mail" applications hitting statewide...* (scans included)
http://www.thealbanyproject.com/diary/8981/about-those-vote-by-mail-applications-hitting-statewide These mailers claim that they are "vote by mail" applications. New York doesn't have voting by mail last time I checked. They also include no "paid for" information and no return address, only the address of the local county Board of Elections.
They have so far turned up in Long Island, Westchester, the Hudson Valley, Capitol Region, the Southern Tier, WNY and the North Country. They're showing up everywhere and I hear some local BoEs have even started to receive them with the propaganda still attached.
OH: Board of Elections continuing its voting machine lawsuit
http://www.journal-news.com/news/hamilton-news/board-of-elections-continuing-its-voting-machine-lawsuit-983331.html
HAMILTON -- The Butler County Board of Elections made no decision Thursday to opt into the Ohio secretary of state's settlement with Premier Elections Solutions regarding faulty voting machines, so it will continue with its own lawsuit.
OK: It's Official: No Problems for State Military Voters
http://www.edmondsun.com/local/x1744208903/Official-No-problems-for-state-military-voters
OH: A LEADER IN OUR EFFORTS TO SERVE MILITARY AND OVERSEAS VOTERS
http://www.progressohio.org/blog/2010/10/secretary-brunner-ohio-a-leader-in-our-efforts-to-serve-military-and-overseas-voters.html
PA: Republicans cry foul over letters to voters
click here
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-cry-foul-over-letters-to-voters.html http://tinyurl.com/26v9lg4
Party leaders said a series of letters the Democratic Party sent to Bucks County voters urging them to apply for absentee ballots appeared to be part of a scheme to screen out applications by GOP voters.
TN: State task force on the watch for election trouble
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/oct/23/state-task-force-on-the-watch-for-election/
(for voter fraud, no mention of probs with voting machines, voter reg, access to vote)
TX: Video Shows Touch-Screen Voting Machine Purportedly Flipping Vote From Republican Perry to Green Party Candidates in Dallas County, TX* http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8141
Incident challenged by election official, reported to D.A., highlights familiar problem with unverifiable machines
ALSO: Vote said flipped from Dem to Repub in Collin County..
TX: Paperless Voting to Continue, for a While
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/News/Blogs/index.html/objID1101367/blogID/
If you distrust Travis County's electronic, paperless voting machines, you're out of luck until at least 2013.
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"Although optical/digital-scan ballots systems are on the market now, they do not meet the Group's standards for security, software design, and cost effectiveness," the report noted.
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