MD: Montgomery County - Card snafu fixed by late morning, but voters angry
~ The Linda Lamone's 2004 Presidential Election Hall of Shame ~
3/8/2005 Machine malfunction MD All Maryland voting machines have been on ''lockdown'' since November 2, 2004 due to statewide machine failures including 12% of machines in Montgomery County, some of which appear to have lost votes in significant numbers.
According to the IT Report to the Montgomery County Election Board, dated December 13, 2004, screen freezes, which occurred on 106 voting units were "the most serious of errors" because many "froze when the voter pressed the Cast Ballot button." As a result "election judges are unable to provide substantial confirmation that the vote was in fact counted." Story Archive
11/23/2004 Machine malfunction MD TrueVoteMD's trained election observers 201 machine malfunction in the 108 precincts they observed, which represent 6% of the state's precincts. Among the problems were 42 instances of machine crashes, 30 screen malfunctions, 17 instances when votes were switched on the screen, 37 problems with the ballot encoder, and 16 incidents in which the ballot was incorrect or incomplete. Story Archive
11/4/2004 Machine malfunction MD Data transmission failures occurred in 14 precincts. Story
11/3/2004 Ballot secrecy violation MD One complaint heard across Maryland was that voters were a little uncomfortable with a lack of privacy, which allowed others to see how they cast their votes. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Machine malfunction MD Poll watchers report vote counts that did not match the check-in numbers. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Machine malfunction MD Nine voting machines ran out of battery power and nearly 40 votes may have been lost in Palm Beach County. The nine machines at a Boynton Beach precinct weren't plugged in properly, and their batteries wore down around 9:30 a.m. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Machine malfunction MD The software running on the touch-screen machines used across the state failed to record some votes correctly, jumped to other pages on the ballot without being prompted by the voter and inadvertently omitted some political races, according to TrueVoteMD. "We have received hundreds of calls from across the state," said the group?s co-director. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Machine malfunction MD A woman in Baltimore County pushed her selection for president and senator repeatedly, but couldn?t get the machine to register her choice properly. A man in Montgomery County said the machine skipped right past the presidential and senate races. A woman in Montgomery County tried to make her selection for the county school board, but the machine advanced to the next screen after she had chosen only half of the candidates. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Provisional ballots MD Some people had trouble getting provisional ballots, including a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq, until state elections officials intervened. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Registration fraud MD Hundreds of student voters at the University of Maryland, College Park, were turned away because they had been improperly registered by a campus organization. Story Archive
11/2/2004 Machine malfunction MD Essex County. Problems around the area range from missing keys to inoperable machines to a lack of extension cords. Story
11/2/2004 Malfeasance MD Essex County. An election judge left a polling place at Sandalwood Elementary School in Essex, saying he forgot something at home. When he returned, he was fired over the phone. Voters who had to wait were allowed to vote by provisional ballot. Story
10/26/2004 Ballot secrecy violation MD Absentee ballots have an identifier on the outside envelope, indicating the party of the voter. Election watchers say the party tags invite fraud because a ballot handler who disagrees with a voter's party choice could simply throw out his or her ballot. Maryland State Board of Elections officials maintain there is no cause for concern, but they have also said they might discontinue the practice in future elections. Story Archive
See Voters Unite 2004 Election Problems Archives
Staggering "The Lamone's" Misadventures - from www.truevotemd.us
Thursday, May 18, 2006 Lamone's letter to the State Treasurer
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 Request of Public Inquiry Over Uncertified Software Used in Montgomery County
Monday, February 13, 2006 NOTICE: Hearing On SB 713 Scheduled for 2/16/06 at 1:00pm.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 TrueVoteMD Corrects Lamone Testimony Against HB244
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 Email from Maryland Department of Budget and Management
Monday, August 29, 2005 Administrator Lamone Responds to "Tell The Truth" Campaign!
Monday, August 29, 2005 Executive Summary of Proposed Study
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Diebold Election Day Failures
Thursday, July 14, 2005 TrueVoteMD writes letter to Baltimore City
Friday, June 24, 2005 California Voter Foundation writes to SOS requesting Public Comment on VVPAT
Saturday, May 28, 2005 BackTalk- Salisbury DFA Program 1. Electronic Voting
Monday, April 18, 2005 State Election Board Re-Defines Voting As Pushing DRE Button
Thursday, March 10, 2005 Request for Records Related to Election Day 2004
Tuesday, March 08, 2005 Emerging Scandal on MD Voting Machine Performance
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 TrueVoteMD Receives Matching Challenge Grant
Monday, November 22, 2004 Disability Advocacy Group Endorses Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail on Electronic Voting Machines
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 Vigil for Democracy & Rally for a Paper Audit Trail
Saturday, August 21, 2004 Lawsuit Hearing
Monday, August 16, 2004 MD Business Leaders Urge Attorney General to Act on a VVPT
Friday, August 13, 2004 Unitarian Universalist Association Resolution on Electronic Voting
Monday, August 09, 2004 Eight Plaintiffs Filed Petitions
Monday, July 19, 2004 The Truth about SBE's Myths vs. Facts
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 TrueVoteMD Speaker's Bureau Starting
Wednesday, June 09, 2004 MD Alert: Election Integrity Deserves a
Thursday, March 18, 2004 TrueVoteMD and True Majority Hold Press Conference Spotlighting Ads
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 San Diego Election Worker Posts Experiences With Diebold Machines
Friday, March 12, 2004 TrueVoteMD Supporters Testify at State Senate Hearing
Tuesday, March 02, 2004 Avi Rubin's Turn at Being an Election Judge in Maryland
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Takoma Park supports legislation
Wednesday, January 14, 2004 House Bill 53: Election Law - Voting Systems - Voter-Verified Paper Records
Wednesday, November 05, 2003 Formal Complaint Filed
Saturday, October 04, 2003 Democratic National Committee Resolution for a Voter-Verified Paper Trail
Friday, September 26, 2003 Commentary on the SAIC Report
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 Maryland Board of Elections statement on the SAIC Report
Sunday, September 21, 2003 Maryland Board of Elections Voting System Security Action Plan
Tuesday, September 02, 2003 SAIC Report: Risk Assessment Report: Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting System and Processes
Thursday, August 07, 2003 Governor Ehrlich orders review of Diebold system
Wednesday, August 06, 2003 The Diebold AccuVote TS Should be Decertified
Friday, August 01, 2003 The Hopkins Team response
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Rebuttal from Diebold
Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute Technical Report
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Ballot Check: Computerized Voting Comes Under Fire in Georgia and California
Wednesday, December 11, 2002 Computerized Balloting is Taking Over Elections In Maryland--But Can We Trust the Results?
Wednesday, October 30, 2002 The Vote Counters: Computerized Ballot-Counting Systems Under Fire
See True Vote Maryland's Timeline of Events
~ Litigation ~
Friday, July 15, 2005 Transcripts of Schade vs. MD State Board of Elections
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 TrueVoteMD Files First Amendment Suit to Gain Access to Polls
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Petitioner's Brief for the emergency appeal
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Court Order for an Emergency Appeal
Saturday, September 04, 2004 Emergency Appeal of Circuit Court Decision
Monday, August 09, 2004 E-Voting Plaintiffs Appeal to MD's Highest Court
Friday, June 25, 2004 Maryland Plaintiffs File Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Maryland Voters File Suit to Force Paper Trail
Sunday, March 28, 2004 SBE Proclaims Itself Above the Law
See True Vote MD's Litigation
http://blackboxvoting.com/s9/index.php?/archives/138-connecting-marylands-election-debacle-dots.html
Enough is enough!
Regards;
Joyce McCloy
Founder, NC Coalition for Verified Voting
336-794-1240
jmc27106@earthlink.net
www.ncvoter.net
~ The Linda Lamone's 2004 Presidential Election Hall of Shame ~
3/8/2005 Machine malfunction MD All Maryland voting machines have been on ''lockdown'' since November 2, 2004 due to statewide machine failures including 12% of machines in Montgomery County, some of which appear to have lost votes in significant numbers.
According to the IT Report to the Montgomery County Election Board, dated December 13, 2004, screen freezes, which occurred on 106 voting units were "the most serious of errors" because many "froze when the voter pressed the Cast Ballot button." As a result "election judges are unable to provide substantial confirmation that the vote was in fact counted." Story Archive
11/23/2004 Machine malfunction MD TrueVoteMD's trained election observers 201 machine malfunction in the 108 precincts they observed, which represent 6% of the state's precincts. Among the problems were 42 instances of machine crashes, 30 screen malfunctions, 17 instances when votes were switched on the screen, 37 problems with the ballot encoder, and 16 incidents in which the ballot was incorrect or incomplete. Story Archive
11/4/2004 Machine malfunction MD Data transmission failures occurred in 14 precincts. Story
11/3/2004 Machine malfunction MD Poll watchers report vote counts that did not match the check-in numbers. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Machine malfunction MD Nine voting machines ran out of battery power and nearly 40 votes may have been lost in Palm Beach County. The nine machines at a Boynton Beach precinct weren't plugged in properly, and their batteries wore down around 9:30 a.m. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Machine malfunction MD The software running on the touch-screen machines used across the state failed to record some votes correctly, jumped to other pages on the ballot without being prompted by the voter and inadvertently omitted some political races, according to TrueVoteMD. "We have received hundreds of calls from across the state," said the group?s co-director. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Machine malfunction MD A woman in Baltimore County pushed her selection for president and senator repeatedly, but couldn?t get the machine to register her choice properly. A man in Montgomery County said the machine skipped right past the presidential and senate races. A woman in Montgomery County tried to make her selection for the county school board, but the machine advanced to the next screen after she had chosen only half of the candidates. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Provisional ballots MD Some people had trouble getting provisional ballots, including a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq, until state elections officials intervened. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Registration fraud MD Hundreds of student voters at the University of Maryland, College Park, were turned away because they had been improperly registered by a campus organization. Story Archive
11/2/2004 Machine malfunction MD Essex County. Problems around the area range from missing keys to inoperable machines to a lack of extension cords. Story
11/2/2004 Malfeasance MD Essex County. An election judge left a polling place at Sandalwood Elementary School in Essex, saying he forgot something at home. When he returned, he was fired over the phone. Voters who had to wait were allowed to vote by provisional ballot. Story
10/26/2004 Ballot secrecy violation MD Absentee ballots have an identifier on the outside envelope, indicating the party of the voter. Election watchers say the party tags invite fraud because a ballot handler who disagrees with a voter's party choice could simply throw out his or her ballot. Maryland State Board of Elections officials maintain there is no cause for concern, but they have also said they might discontinue the practice in future elections. Story Archive
See Voters Unite 2004 Election Problems Archives
Staggering "The Lamone's" Misadventures - from www.truevotemd.us
Thursday, May 18, 2006 Lamone's letter to the State Treasurer
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 Request of Public Inquiry Over Uncertified Software Used in Montgomery County
Monday, February 13, 2006 NOTICE: Hearing On SB 713 Scheduled for 2/16/06 at 1:00pm.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 TrueVoteMD Corrects Lamone Testimony Against HB244
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 Email from Maryland Department of Budget and Management
Monday, August 29, 2005 Administrator Lamone Responds to "Tell The Truth" Campaign!
Monday, August 29, 2005 Executive Summary of Proposed Study
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Diebold Election Day Failures
Thursday, July 14, 2005 TrueVoteMD writes letter to Baltimore City
Friday, June 24, 2005 California Voter Foundation writes to SOS requesting Public Comment on VVPAT
Saturday, May 28, 2005 BackTalk- Salisbury DFA Program 1. Electronic Voting
Monday, April 18, 2005 State Election Board Re-Defines Voting As Pushing DRE Button
Thursday, March 10, 2005 Request for Records Related to Election Day 2004
Tuesday, March 08, 2005 Emerging Scandal on MD Voting Machine Performance
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 TrueVoteMD Receives Matching Challenge Grant
Monday, November 22, 2004 Disability Advocacy Group Endorses Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail on Electronic Voting Machines
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 Vigil for Democracy & Rally for a Paper Audit Trail
Saturday, August 21, 2004 Lawsuit Hearing
Monday, August 16, 2004 MD Business Leaders Urge Attorney General to Act on a VVPT
Friday, August 13, 2004 Unitarian Universalist Association Resolution on Electronic Voting
Monday, August 09, 2004 Eight Plaintiffs Filed Petitions
Monday, July 19, 2004 The Truth about SBE's Myths vs. Facts
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 TrueVoteMD Speaker's Bureau Starting
Wednesday, June 09, 2004 MD Alert: Election Integrity Deserves a
Thursday, March 18, 2004 TrueVoteMD and True Majority Hold Press Conference Spotlighting Ads
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 San Diego Election Worker Posts Experiences With Diebold Machines
Friday, March 12, 2004 TrueVoteMD Supporters Testify at State Senate Hearing
Tuesday, March 02, 2004 Avi Rubin's Turn at Being an Election Judge in Maryland
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Takoma Park supports legislation
Wednesday, January 14, 2004 House Bill 53: Election Law - Voting Systems - Voter-Verified Paper Records
Wednesday, November 05, 2003 Formal Complaint Filed
Saturday, October 04, 2003 Democratic National Committee Resolution for a Voter-Verified Paper Trail
Friday, September 26, 2003 Commentary on the SAIC Report
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 Maryland Board of Elections statement on the SAIC Report
Sunday, September 21, 2003 Maryland Board of Elections Voting System Security Action Plan
Tuesday, September 02, 2003 SAIC Report: Risk Assessment Report: Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting System and Processes
Thursday, August 07, 2003 Governor Ehrlich orders review of Diebold system
Wednesday, August 06, 2003 The Diebold AccuVote TS Should be Decertified
Friday, August 01, 2003 The Hopkins Team response
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Rebuttal from Diebold
Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute Technical Report
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Ballot Check: Computerized Voting Comes Under Fire in Georgia and California
Wednesday, December 11, 2002 Computerized Balloting is Taking Over Elections In Maryland--But Can We Trust the Results?
Wednesday, October 30, 2002 The Vote Counters: Computerized Ballot-Counting Systems Under Fire
See True Vote Maryland's Timeline of Events
~ Litigation ~
Friday, July 15, 2005 Transcripts of Schade vs. MD State Board of Elections
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 TrueVoteMD Files First Amendment Suit to Gain Access to Polls
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Petitioner's Brief for the emergency appeal
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Court Order for an Emergency Appeal
Saturday, September 04, 2004 Emergency Appeal of Circuit Court Decision
Monday, August 09, 2004 E-Voting Plaintiffs Appeal to MD's Highest Court
Friday, June 25, 2004 Maryland Plaintiffs File Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Maryland Voters File Suit to Force Paper Trail
Sunday, March 28, 2004 SBE Proclaims Itself Above the Law
See True Vote MD's Litigation
http://blackboxvoting.com/s9/index.php?/archives/138-connecting-marylands-election-debacle-dots.html
Enough is enough!
Regards;
Joyce McCloy
Founder, NC Coalition for Verified Voting
336-794-1240
jmc27106@earthlink.net
www.ncvoter.net
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