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Gee Dan, they could have just hired you to begin with and we
really would be in a mess. Wonder how you feel about the
old voting machines, which had no paper trail.....oh, forgot, the
Dimm-o-craps were in charge then.
Brad BlogEXCLUSIVE - ES&S MELTDOWN: Texas SoS Office Advises Election Officials to Create 'Emergency Paper Ballots' for Upcoming Elections!
Director of Elections Sends Letter Authorizing Measure in Light of Latest Failure by Electronic Voting Machine Vendor Says Company's Performance in Most Recent -- of Many Similar Incidences Around the Country -- is 'Completely Unacceptable and Disturbing'
On Monday, Texas Director of Elections Ann McGeehan sent a letter to all state Election Officials authorizing them to create "emergency paper ballots" in light of statewide failures by Election System & Software, Inc. (ES&S) to provide ballots in time for the state's upcoming May 13 Runoff Elections, The BRAD BLOG has learned.
Early voting begins on Monday for those elections and counties across the state do not yet have ballots and, in many cases, programming for their optical-scan and touch-screen voting machines. ES&S has contracts with more than 140 Texas counties.
McGeehan has instructed officials to create and number their own paper ballots, secure boxes to store them in, and hire additional workers to manually hand count ballots as an emergency procedure to deal with the rapidly deteriorating situation.
The letter from McGeehan (posted in full exclusively at the link below) -- which does not mention ES&S by name, but refers to the Omaha, Nebraska-based company only as "a certified voting systems vendor" -- was sent in response to complaints from officials around the state that "programming media or, in some cases, your ballots" had not been received yet by officials.
The BRAD BLOG has also received statements from officials in other states who were much more direct in expressing their frustration with the company's business practices now being described by some as including "coercion" and "threats."
Our breaking report this morning do ents similar meltdowns and failures in Ohio, Indiana, West Virgina, California and more as ES&S failure to meet contractual obligations has left voters in the dark, and Election Officials scrambling for back up solutions.
And that's just the jurisdictions dealing with ES&S as the other vendors are all have similar problems to disastrous effect.
Bexar Country uses Election System & Software (ES&S) software. Yes, after years of writing as a open-source software engineer about the vulnerabilities and anomalies that have occurred in Texas involving electronic elections returns, the great state of Texas finally begins to take notice.
Shame on Texas!!!!
Gee Dan, they could have just hired you to begin with and we
really would be in a mess. Wonder how you feel about the
old voting machines, which had no paper trail.....oh, forgot, the
Dimm-o-craps were in charge then.
There was always a paper trail before e-voting came along. There's no reason there shouldn't be a paper trail now. It as easy as printing out a receipt at a ATM, except that local precinct will have the ability to verify that what is being reported by the machines in each location is the amount that is being calculated in the central tabulators. No hanging chads, to confusing paper ballots.
See, with some reform, even e-voting can be fraud free.
The simple fact that we vote electronically is a testament to the disgust I feel towards the common man.
I don't recall any paper being involved. Just counter inside the machine.
There was always a paper trail before e-voting came along. There's no reason there shouldn't be a paper trail now. It as easy as printing out a receipt at a ATM, except that local precinct will have the ability to verify that what is being reported by the machines in each location is the amount that is being calculated in the central tabulators. No hanging chads, to confusing paper ballots.
See, with some reform, even e-voting can be fraud free.
But it leaves an infallible electronic trail of votes!!!
I am talking about the "old" mechanical voting machines. They had no
paper trail, as I recall, just counters inside the machine.
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