But lawyers for Jennings had not even seen the letter from ES&S until recently; it was not provided to them by election officials as it should have been under discovery motions in the case, Hirsch said. Instead, the legal team came across the document on a North Carolina-based website on election reform.

Sarasota County election officials clearly had seen the letter, though, because they referred to it in a series of emails that were among the thousands of pages of documents that were provided to Jennings's legal team. "It wasn't clear until we saw the letter what the emails were about," Hirsch said.

And we're back to the last election again because it was botched. Way to go Sarasota! And whose seat was that before the election? Why Katherine Harris' of course!

Melinda Henneberger: Mechanical Glitch Ignored In Now Contested Florida Congressional Race | The Huffington Post

Mail in early voting undervotes were at 2.6%. In person early voters came to central locations and voted on iVotronic touch screens like those used in the general election. Undervotes by that method ran 17.6%. There is no reason for a difference of 15 points other than the one provided by Coffey in the Jennings case: voting machine malfunction by the iVotronics. As a result, 14,000 Sarasota County voters lost their constitutional rights.

Any more questions about touch screen voting machines and the need for a paper trail? It looks like the correct margin in the House should be 235-200.

Scoop: Wrong Winner Chosen Twice by Same Voting Machine

Early voting runs through Friday, November 3rd.
KFDM continues to get complaints from Jefferson County voters who say the electronic voting machines are not registering their votes correctly.
Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican ticket.

Gee, didn't see that coming...

KFDM-TV Channel Six News

State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said.

How to win? Make other people too afraid to vote. The word is "disenfranchisement" and it means you've violated another person's civil rights.

Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not drop the soap.

AG: Voter warning linked to GOP campaign - Yahoo! News

Then, one muggy day in mid-August, Hood was surprised to see the president of Diebold's election unit, Bob Urosevich, arrive in Georgia from his headquarters in Texas. With the primaries looming, Urosevich was personally distributing a "patch," a little piece of software designed to correct glitches in the computer program. "We were told that it was intended to fix the clock in the system, which it didn't do," Hood says. "The curious thing is the very swift, covert way this was done."

More questions about Diebold stealing elections. At this point, the third world is doing a better job than we are.

Rolling Stone : Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- Will The Next Election Be Hacked?

In Miami County, in southwestern Ohio, official tallies in one precinct recorded about 550 votes. Ballots and signature books indicated that 450 people voted.

Well here's one way to steal an election.

Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots - New York Times

The election between Francine Busby and Brian Bilbray was marred, as reported in detail by The BRAD BLOG over the past two months, when the Diebold optical-scan and touch-screen voting machines used in the race were sent home with poll workers on so-called "sleepovers" for days and weeks prior to the election. That breach in security was in contravention of new state and federal security mitigation requirements enacted just months ago after dozens of severe vulnerabilities were recently confirmed in those specific voting systems.

According to the new state and federal security requirements, such breaches of security effectively decertify the systems for use in California. The election contest, to be filed on behalf of several CA-50 voters on Monday will charge the votes cast on those decertified machines are, in fact, illegal votes. The casting of illegal votes in one of several ground under which a contest may be filed in California state court.

Is it just me or do banana republics do a better job with elections than we do?

The BRAD BLOG : EXCLUSIVE: ELECTION CONTEST TO BE FILED IN BUSBY/BILBRAY RACE MONDAY MORNING!!

What's the GOP strategy for getting Blackwell back into the running? Imply that Strickland is gay.

Yep, Ken Blackwell, the guy who so horribly screwed up voting in Ohio in 2004 is in trouble in Ohio, so the other guy must be gay. So what. The proper place for Blackwell is probably the Ohio prison system where he can find out the hard way what that menas (he was head of elections at the same time that he was head of the Republican drive in Ohio, but there's no conflict of interest there, he used the position to make sure Republicans got elected, see the RFK Jr piece from Rolling Stone for more on that).

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