Voting Machines -- Riverside
County June 6, 2006 election
(AND AROUND THE USA)
updated 12/10/06
A few major resources:
12/10/06 -- Election Solar Bus claims results were skewed 4% in favor of Republicans nationwide, 3 million votes
8/20/06 -- The Fierce Urgency of Now (Speech by Jean Kacszmarek, Illinois - votetrustorgusa.org)
8/22/06 - 92% Americans want to be able to monitor the vote count. (Zogby Poll)
Brad Blog, 7-11-06 -- Recently
"resigned" Monterey County Registrar of Voters faces 43 counts of
criminal charges. And, oh, by the way, he installed the Sequoia
system, too. (Brad calls the Sequoia "paper trail" virtually uncountable.)
OrangeCrest, July 11,
2006 -- Here is a report "... prepared by SAVE R VOTE* a Project of Democracy For America- Temecula
Valley (DFA-TV)", titled as follows:
Riverside County CA Voting System Operations: Expensive, Insecure, Illegal, Unqualified and Unaudited
-- Verification of Proper System Operation Impossible Due to County Staff's Impeding of Official Citizen Observer
Teams" (Word document) Save R Vote Presentation to Board of Supervisors 7-11-06 (Word Document).
Important
background article on vote theft (Buzzflash/Greg Palast 6-13-06).
OrangeCrest, June 28. 2006 -- Controversy
over cost of records.
Case
concerning reasonable duplicating charges.
June 28, 2006 -- Brennan Center Task Force Report
and News Coverage.
OrangeCrest, June 26,
2006 -- Alternate paper ballots were not
hand counted, but simply encoded into the Sequoia system. (Art Cassel,
via Black Box Voting.) / USA TODAY -- Analysis
finds e-voting machines vulnerable (second
source, Truthout)
OrangeCrest, June 19, 2006 -- Voter
Right's Group Issues "No Confidence" Press Release on recent San Diego
vote.
June 17, 2006 (Truthout) -- More e-voting concerns
OrangeCrest, June 9, 2006 -- The
controversies over use of
computerized voting machines continues unabated, reaching to Riverside
County. Around the country, machines continue to be shown
wholly
defective, as documented by "blackbox
voting," "brad
blog"
and others. Brad Blog reports that due to flaws in
the
equipment, there will be no computer voting in eight Arkansas counties
for runoff elections. Also, that a hand
count in Iowa
showed a massive error in optical scanners, such that the wrong
candidate purportedly held the lead according to the bogus scanner
count.
Closer to home, we do not know of any failures of the Riverside County
voting system. However, Registrar
of Voters
Barbara Dunmore state in a meeting with the Election Observer Panel
that the voting would be "out of
compliance" with requirements that the vote be posted at the individual
precinct sites following the close of the polls. This was
confirmed in two summaries of the meeting (see
below). Dunmore has not
yet responded to an inquiry as to whether this was due to the inability
to comply with the law due to unresolved technical issues; or whether
it was an administrative decision specifically not to comply with the
law.
In either event, it is possible that if the vote process is "out of
compliance" with applicable laws, the entire Riverside County voting
results may defective. We have not yet investigated the
potential
consequences of the non-compliance and do not yet know whether the
results were in fact posted, contrary to Dunmore's policy stated
immediately prior to the election.
The voting process has been monitored by a group known as
"Democracy for America - Temecula Valley" and others.
Here is Dunmore's summary
of the June 1 meeting between Dunmore and members of the Election
Observer Panel (EOP).
Here is DFA-TV's summary
of the June 1 meeting.
Here is Dunmore's reply.
legal stuff #1
2004 Secretary of State Kevin
Shelley memo
Election Code re
posting of results
EOP guidelines (pdf)
EOP Plan (pdf)
Sequoia guidelines (doc)
Sequoia Print Jam procedures (doc)
Sequoia posting procedures
(doc)
More Sequoia manual (doc)
Central tabulator monitoring (doc)
Jim Soper re computer code
issues (doc)
Security
Analysis of the Diebold AccuBasic Interpreter (pdf)
10 years of Sequoia failures (pdf)
Chart -- voting machine issues
(pdf)
California systems as of 2006? (pdf)
Ballot Definition File
Programming (pdf)
Markavote Scan Procedures (pdf)
Articles:
NC
Times -- County in Good and Bad Company
NC Times -- Courbat#1
NC Times -- Courbat#2
NC Times -- no posting of
results
NC Times -- ROV refuses to follow law
Rolling
Stone article on 2004 election
Prohibition on connecting voting systems to internet:
EC 19250 (f), "A direct recording electronic voting system
shall not be connected to the Internet at any time." EC 19250 (g) states "A
direct recording electronic voting system shall not be permitted to receive
or transmit official election results through an exterior communication
network, including the public telephone system." And EC 19250 (h) states,
"A direct recording electronic voting system shall not be permitted to
receive or transmit wireless communications or wireless data transfers."
Riverside Cornet System is an internet system.
More articles on
election fraud and vote theft:
6-16-06 -- Some
Might Call It Treason -- An Open Letter to Salon (Mark
Crispin Miller/Huffington Post)
Prior articles
concerning Barbara Dunsmore's tenure as Registrar of Voters --
adamantly opposing release of information, paper trail audit, etc.
California
Voter Foundation (scroll down page)