With regard to the straight-party voting issue, the secretary of state's office has instructed counties to post signs telling voters to wait for machines to render their straight-party selections before doing anything else on the systems and to be sure to carefully review all of their votes before they push the final button to cast their ballot. But the Texas Civil Rights Commission, in a letter to the state on Friday, has called the measures "woefully inadequate." "The scale of this issue--in terms of numbers and geographic breadth--cry out for a statewide response from the only official capable of such action," the Commission wrote. "Additional possible solutions to consider may include 1) an investigation into whether specific machines at polling locations are to blame, 2) sending additional technical assistance to counties and affected polling places, and/or 3) conducting an audit of or replacing problematic machines."
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From Truthout's article on this subject (URL is below):
Watchers have observed that there is a voting systems computer, in the central counting station " and it had wi-fi connectivity, and emails were being sent from that computer," election security advocate Laura Pressley told Truthout in an exclusive phone interview, raising the alarm about vote-counting security in Dallas County, Texas.Pressley worked for years as a device engineer and engineering manager in the semiconductor industry. She's the founder of a non-partisan group called True Texas Elections that is monitoring elections all across the state -- focusing especially on electronic voting machines and tabulators.
Pressley is not the only one concerned about wireless internet networks being anywhere near a voting machine or tabulator. Texas state law specifically prohibits it, mandating that "No voting system is ever connected to the internet at any point -- either when votes are being cast or when they are being counted."
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The Houston Chronicle in an article by Andrea Zelinski of their Austin bureau reported on 10/27:
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