Nation gets better at vote counts

[NVMojo]

Seems like a marketing job for the Bush machines....


By THOMAS HARGROVE Scripps Howard News Service
December 26, 2004

America did a much better job of counting its votes this year.

The nation's $2.2 billion investment in new voting machines and other election reforms reduced the number of ballots that failed to count in last month's presidential election, according to a Scripps Howard News Service study based on final or nearly complete election data provided by 43 states and the District of Columbia.

Nearly 99 percent of the 122 million ballots cast in the Nov. 2 general election successfully recorded a vote for president, a significant improvement over the 98 percent that counted in the race for the White House four years ago.

"It's a start, a very good start," said DeForest Soaries, chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission created by Congress to fix the kinds of election problems found in Florida four years ago. "Have all of our problems been solved? No. But there's much more to celebrate in this election than to mourn, no question about it."

But the study did find wide variations among states in the accuracy of vote counts. Some states were eight times more likely than others to have ballots that didn't tally a choice for president last month, often because of poor ballot design or errors in tabulation.

"We still have a lot of work to do," Soaries said.


http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/cda/article_print/0,1983,ECP_734_3425406_ARTICLE-DETAIL-PRINT,00.html

[Farah]

1. Stuff like this makes me SO ANGRY

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[mrdmk]

2. This is why California got rid of some of its voting machines DRE

From Scripps Howard News Service Web site

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Scripps Networks brands include Home & Garden Television, Food Network, DIY -- Do It Yourself Network and Fine Living. HGTV reaches about 85 million U.S. television households and Food Network can be seen in about 84 million households. Scripps Networks programming can be seen in 86 countries. Scripps Howard News Service is the exclusive provider of newspaper content for these popular lifestyle networks.
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http://www.shns.com/shns/networks/


Maybe they stick to Home Economics i.e. how to run a household, that is if you have the buget for it!

[Clark2008]

3. HGTV is HQed in my hometown

And, the reporting at the local Scripps newspaper has gone from bad to worse.
Even the political editor - who was, at one time, a registered Democrat, sponsors such "news worthy" articles as printing a list of platitudes from neo-cons for Don Rumsfeld after he was "ambushed" by that "dang reporter who manipulated that poor ole Tennessee guardsman."

:eyes:

[buddysmellgood]

4. Here is his email. Enlighten him. [email protected]

[email protected]

[Career Prole]

5. Better than Haiti, maybe. n/t

[Pepper32]

6. Someone slap him. Seriously, Hargrove needs to read more and

...take his head out of the sand (to put it nicely)

[cosmicdot]

7. sticking to (and propping up) the lie

what would one expect from the Rev. Dr. DeForest 'faith-based' 'making every vote count' Soaries ?



Appointed to an initial four year term, Dr. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. was elected Chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission at the agency’s first public meeting on March 23, 2004.

In February 2003, Dr. Soaries was appointed by President Bush to serve as a public director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. He was a member of the affordable housing committee of the bank.

From January 12, 1999 to January 15, 2002, Dr. Soaries served as New Jersey's 30th Secretary of State. Appointed by former Governor Christine Todd Whitman, he managed one of the premier departments of State government and served as a senior advisor to the governor on issues that transcended traditional departmental lines.

Dr. Soaries is also the Senior Pastor of the 7,000 member First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey. A pioneer of faith-based community development, Dr. Soaries has led First Baptist in the construction of a new $17 million church complex and the formation of many not-for-profit entities to serve the community surrounding the church.

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http://www.eac.gov/soaries.asp?format=none

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Newsweek reported that Soaries expressed concern that no federal agency had the authority to postpone an election and asked Ridge to ask Congress to give his commission such power.

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http://blog.zmag.org/empire/archives/000849.html

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DeFOREST SOARIES: We just didn't have the kinds of problems that many people anticipated. The truth, however, is that we did have glitches. We had problems. The reason we're not talking about those problems today as we were four years ago is because no one perceives that any particular problem impacted the outcome of the election.

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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec04/election1_12-02.html

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The church's redevelopment affiliates have "sold out to big development," said Throckmorton, who owns a home and residence in a nearby redevelopment district. "This is a low-to moderate-income neighborhood. If these people do lose their homes, they couldn't afford to replace them and stay in the town."

But the church's senior pastor, the Rev. DeForest "Buster" Soaries Jr., said the group's quarrel is with the township rather than the church's development affiliates, which do not have the power of eminent domain. Moreover, he said the church would not support a development that was opposed by the neighborhood.

"If the neighborhood doesn't want a supermarket, we won't build it," said Soaries, calling the demonstration "much ado about nothing." He added that he wasn't "a man in search of a job," especially in light of his new appointment. Soaries, the former New Jersey secretary of state, was on his way to Austria to address officials from democratic countries on the issue of sustaining democracy in an age of terror. He is chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which is charged with setting new standards for federal elections.

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http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20040712/003618.html