Daily Voting News For November 1, 2008
Monday, 3 November 2008, 10:06 am
Column: John Gideon
Daily Voting News For November 1,
2008
Evening Edition
Guest Blogged by John
Gideon of VotersUnite.org
3
days until Election Day.
Just a comment to those who
want to dismiss ‘vote-flipping’ as voter error. All
kinds of people go to the polls to vote. They are highly
educated and high-school dropouts. Rich and poor. They have
long fingernails and nails bitten to the quick. They have
thin fingers and wide fingers. They are going to softly
touch the creen or touch it hard. Vendors and election
officials tend to blame vote-flipping on the voters. They
touched the screen too hard; drug their finger; had long
fingernails; or their fingers touched too large an area.
So, is it the voters fault? NO! It is the vendors who
designed, built and sold these machines that don’t work
for all voters and it is the election officials who bought
those machines.
A large majority of the
‘vote-flipping’ has been on older ES&S iVotronic DREs;
those machines that were featured on last year’s Dan
Rather Reports. The cheaply built, poorly tested touch
screens that were used as components on those systems should
have been scrapped long ago. It’s not the voters fault and
this constant pointing of fingers is wrong. The vendors need
to remember that when they point a finger at the voters they
have three fingers pointing back at the real culprit,
themselves; and it makes no difference what those fingers
look like, they are the fingers of blame....
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Five-Hour Wait Today for Richmond Voters LINK **"Daily
Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports
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news around the country regardless of quality or political
slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may
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-- John
Gideon Co-Executive Director VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
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2008
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