U.S. Election Problems May Affect Nov. 4 Election Outcomes- Recent news articles

[livvy]

Wednesday, October 29. 2008
U.S. Election Problems May Affect Nov. 4 Election Outcomes
Recent news articles have reported:

I. Tens of Thousands of Eligible Voters Purged from Electronic State Voter Rolls

II. Purged Voters Must Use Provisional Ballots That Are Not Necessarily Counted

III. Electronic Pollbook Problems Prevent Voters from Voting, or Force Voters to Use Provisional Ballots

IV. Straight Ticket Voting Causes Vote-Flipping & Undervotes

V. Discernible Touch-screen Vote Flipping

VI. Indiscernible Vote-Flipping - No Rational Reason to Trust the Integrity & Accuracy of U.S. Election Results

VII. Voting Machines Not Working

VIII. Voter Intimidation & Dirty Tricks

IX. Unequal Allocation of Voting Resources

Links to articles:

http://kathydopp.com/serendipity/

[indep_kidd]

1. Can the Police do anything?

If I'm at a machine that doesn't work properly or if I see people getting hassled can I call the police and tell them about this and will they respond?

[livvy]

2. See this post for the recommended things to do.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x509942

I think it's the best list I've seen. Just about any questions you might have seem to be there.

Welcome to DU, by the way, as well as the Election Reform forum!:hi: