LOST VOTES OF THE DAY

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BRAD BLOG - The Associated Press is reporting that the two Sequoia AVC
Advantage touch-screen voting machines at the Hoboken Fire Department
Engine Company No. 2 on Washington Street would not work for about 45
minutes as the polls opened this morning. This polling place just
happens to be the location where New Jersey Governor John Corzine votes,
or was at least scheduled to at 6:15am. He was unable to cast his vote
until 7:00am according to the reports. AP notes that several voters were
turned away this morning until they were able to get one of the machines
working. Fox "News" reported earlier that there were no provisional
ballots at the poll site, so voters had no choice but to wait for the
machines to be fixed or to choose not to vote at all. . . New York's ABC
7 confirms the problems. They report: "The big question is why did this
polling place not have any provisional ballots," and they note that
"lots of people were obviously turned away.". . .

Last week, Rush Limbaugh's touch-screen machine froze up while voting in
the Florida Primary. . . In 2005, California's Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger was temporarily barred from casting his vote, as the
e-voting system in Santa Monica showed him as having already voted. . .

7:45am PT: Right on schedule, officials say poll workers are to blame
for the still-unspecified problem that kept machines from working this
morning. As you'll see, it's always "human error", rather than the fault
of the crappy machines, or the idiots who created them so poorly or made
them so complicated that they continue to fail in election after
election. The only "human error," in truth, is that of the Election
Officials who irresponsibly chose to use these horrible voting systems
in the first place.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5651

CHANNEL 11, ATLANTA - Numerous problems resulting from lost keys to
computer glitches were reported by voters wanting to cast their ballots
in the Metro Atlanta area Tuesday. The Secretary of State's office
fielded about 100 calls from concerned voters by 10 a.m., most
complaining about precincts without enough voting machines or lines that
were too long.

At Inman Middle School in Virginia Highland, some voters complained to
11Alive News that they had to wait for an hour-and-a-half due to a
bottle neck brought about by identification checks.

Poll workers at the school had just two computer terminals -- one of
which keeps crashing -- to check ids against their voter registration
lists. The lists were not on paper but on the two computers. . .

"You could wait in that long line and when they check your address find
out you're at the wrong polling place," said voter Carol Colatrella.
"How many people are gonna wait for 50 minutes and then go somewhere
else and wait for another 50 minutes?"

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=110698

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