Lieberman to Face Levers in Greenwich

[Wilms]

Voting machine switch delayed

By Neil Vigdor
Staff Writer

Published September 7 2006

Greenwich won't replace its mechanical voting machines with electronic models until after the November election, to avoid technical problems in a highly contentious political season.

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The state gave municipalities the option this fall to pilot the new (Diebold...go on, say it!) Accu-Vote System, which reads blackened ovals on paper ballots much like the scanners used to read standardized tests and lottery tickets.

But with the state only recently signing a contract with a supplier of the machines, some officials worry there's too little time to get them in place and train poll workers to use them.

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Republican Registrar Veronica Baron Musca said her office was up to the challenge.

"I would have preferred to get our feet wet this year," Musca said, adding that she has advocated for the change for several years. Just two weeks ago she had been planning to ask the Board of Selectmen for permission to use the new machines.

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http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1machinethursdaysep07,0,292515.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines


Tough luck, Musca. You'll have to wait for another election to conduct one on a hackable Diebold Accu-Vote OpScan in a state that has no audits of OpScan machines.

[AX10]

1. Looks like Veronica Baron Musca wants to steal elections for...

her fellow corrupt Republicans.

[movonne]

2. Don't you love it....they out and out throw it is your face they want

to steal the election...

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

3. thank heavens - I was really worried - too hard to rig all those levers

Hah hahaha

finally our luck is good on something.

Now - they ought to cancel those contracts with LIEBOLD
since they have more time to get voting machines.

They could use HCPB and just forget the expensive contracts.

Or keep the levers - at least you can minimize the fraud to
999 votes per precinct.

[Bill Bored]

4. Unaudited Optical Scanners in CT? Pa-lease!

Their law says they only have to audit DREs! So what do they do? Decide to go Optical Scan statewide next year, or optionally even in 2006!

Bravo to Greenwhich on this one!

Maybe the rest of the state will have enough sense to follow suit and wait until they get a meaningful auditing law on the books for next year. Only then should they go anywhere near electronic vote counting!

And where is TrueVoteCT on this very important issue?

[truckin]

10. TrueVoteCT is working with the Secretary of the State to develop

audit standards to submit to the legislative body in January. 20 towns in CT plan to use Opscan in November before the systems are rolled out to all 169 towns. After the November election, TrueVoteCT will help craft the audit language and no one expects a problem passing a bill to audit the opscan machines, but you never know. Also, LHS, the marketing company that represents Diebold, will be programming the machines and not Diebold.

[Bill Bored]

11. OK. Please see this. You might find it interesting.

<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1664&Itemid=26>
And read the whole pdf!

On edit:
You also need to be able to check your Ballot Definition Programming on all jurisdictions BEFORE THE ELECTION, esp. if it's outsourced to LHS or another private contractor.

See:
http://www.votersunite.org/info/mapVoteSwitch.pdf
http://www.votersunite.org/info/Vote-Switchinginthenews.pdf

[truckin]

12. Thanks Bill, I'll pass it on to those who will be developing the

audit standards.

[Bill Bored]

13. See previous post again. I edited to include pre-election auditing!

And I PM'ed you too!

[Bill Bored]

5. ACCUVOTE is really DIEBOLD? WHO KNEW?

VoteTrustUSA, that's who!

Connecticut: Bysiewicz Can't Seem To Say "Diebold"
By Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA
September 01, 2006

Election Integrity Activists Appalud Secretary of State's Decision To Go With Paper Ballot System - But She Still Won't Say Diebold

Several reports have been published in local Connecticut newspapers in the past few days concerning Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz' 180 degree turn away from Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting equipment to the more cost effective and reliable option of optical scan voting system. But as in her August 7 press conference announcing the decision, she is still refusing to admit publicly that the machines the state will be using are produced by Diebold Election Systems.
-snip-

<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1736&Itemid=113>

[Wilms]

9. ACCUVOTE is just another Diebold HACCUVOTE.

And for that matter, which party gets the EDGE and ADVANTAGE courtesy of Sequoia?

[nicknameless]

6. Great news for Greenwich. (n/t)

[galloglas]

7. Facing Levers in Greenwich

IMHO, for Lieberman to run as an Independent after his Democratic primary defeat, the only lever he should be facing is the one that springs the trap door on a gallows.

What part of "NO!" didn't you understand, Joe?

What arrogance! What hubris! :nuke:

[Bill Bored]

8. Oh yeah, k&r please! kick! nt