GIDEON: Voters End Up Paying the Ultimate Price for Democracy Lost"

[Wilms]

Why is Ireland making excuses?

Thursday, April 27, 2006

By JOHN GIDEON

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And paper ballot printing has been a problem too. Even though ES&S requires ballots be printed by their own printers and on their own "special" paper (at a cost over twice per ballot than if they were printed by a county contractor on normal card stock), they still cannot seem to get the ballots delivered on time and without errors. North Carolina, Indiana, Texas, and California counties have all experienced problems with ballots that had to be sent back three or four times for re-printing.

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Are Secretary Ireland and some county officials making excuses for ES&S because they now realize they made a huge mistake when they selected ES&S as the vendor for the state? It certainly seems that they are not bothering to look beyond the state's borders to see what is happening with this company in the rest of the country. If they simply shrug this all off as a "daunting task" are they really serving the voters? Or are they crossing their fingers, wishing for the best and hoping to protect themselves?

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It's the voters -- not the government officials nor the private corporations receiving those voters' tax-dollars - who end up paying the ultimate price for democracy lost.

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[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. looking for links r/e NC paper ballots reprinting?

I hadn't seen the articles saying that NC had to send back paper ballots for reprinting.
There was a mistake in Buncombe County, but it was the election director who made a proofing
error.


"North Carolina, Indiana, Texas, and California counties have all experienced problems with ballots that had to be sent back three or four times for re-printing."


We did get the bad memory cards for the optical scanners, but the State Board of Elections
was notified (as per our new law) and the State Board of Elections is on the hook
to make sure that only properly working equipment goes out to the counties.

If anyone has some news articles documenting mis printing problems of paper ballots in
North Carolina, please post the links.

Thanks.

Trying to keep an eye on things here.

[flyingobject]

2. they could have chosen these....

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