Jan 17 2008
Early Early Voting Numbers
Follow this link for the absentee and early voting numbers so far. This link will show you a comparison with two years ago. We’ll keep it updated at some point each day.
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How/WHY should we still trust these voting machines when numerous states have declined to use them in order to have a secure, hand counted vote held in public by members of all parties?
When the vote is not counted in public or ballots leaving a trail able to be audited and proven, how can we be sure those are the real results? Its the people that count the votes that decide the election, not the voters anymore.
After numerous reports of voter machine fraud, manipulation, and suspicious handling of memory card cartridges (the “new” ballot boxes) at the N.H. and S.C. primaries. A recount that was carried out suspiciously shows Obama and Paul had some of their votes flipped for McCain and Clinton by the machines..
The We The People Foundation and NCEF have filed a lawsuit which: seeks to halt the use of machine-based voting systems in all states. make wireless technology in the machines that are vulnerable to external manipulation with the flip of a switch illegal. And ending the vote counting procedures used by some states that hide the ballot counting from public view. We want a paper trail.
Please, watch, these, videos! PLEASE. Theres PLENTY more if you look for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RszDiox7dIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZws98jw67g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSe24deOpUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kPvjAfyIyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REfVcc-4Zrk
I want to add that Britain, Israel, India, Switzerland, and Canada all count their ballots by hand.
Canada counts more than 13,000,000 ballots in 4 hours. why do we use these unsecure machines?
We have a paper trail in Champaign County. Votes are counted in the presence of observers from all political parties.
that is reassuring to hear
Tonight around 5.35pm, my girlfriend went to stratton elementary school to vote, and -living on columbia ave, which is predominantly white, she had a ballot waiting for her. However, she reported that the folks who lived a bit north of her in a predominantly African-American neighborhood (polling dist. 6?) and voted there had run out of ballots. A poll worker suggested that “we didn’t expect a turnout this big.” Nobody anticipated that there would be a big turnout tonight. Is that a joke? I’m new to town but I could have told you that an African-American local senator running for president ‘might’ just bring out the vote here. People had been waiting so long for ballots, they just went home.
I would hope that this is not on purpose. I grew up in the South, and I know the history there. Perhaps we need a full account exactly on what is going on here, now.
My girlfriend will testify on what she observed.
creekguy75@gmail.com
The last time Barack Obama was in a hotly contested primary was March 2004. City of Champaign 6 had 113 voters that election. We ordered 200 ballots for that election, which doesn’t include the 20 people who voted here prior to the election. We sent them another 50 ballots. It appears that there turnout was over double the number of four years ago. We saw this problem predominantly in Republican leaning precincts in Southwest Champaign. We didn’t have to bring any more ballots to Cunningham 1 or City of Champaign 1 which are largely African American. Approximately 50 precincts needed to get additional ballots in the area of 25-100.
I apologize for not projecting better, but in this unusual situation it was difficult to project.
Mark,
You are the elected official, in this you assumed and are bound to the responsibility of all tasks involved with this position. Difficulties are foretold, and expected within the peramiters of your positions responsibilitis, “unusual situations, no matter how difficult, must not be “let” to happen. Apologies are always welcome and nice, though the fact remains people, many whom have not voted for years and have taken the inititive to vote, were not able to do so. This is a sad situation for all of Champaigns citizens.
Just for the record, I have not heard of a single person who was not able to vote in this last election because of delays in ballots getting to the polling place.