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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-10-05 05:52 PM Original message |
reconciling EIRS and VerifiedVoting.org |
Edited on Fri Jun-10-05 06:39 PM by foo_bar
The 86 of 88 discussion got me thinking last night.
I got the complete incident data from EIRS and verifiedvoting.org, then hit a snag figuring out which incidents correspond to which voting technology. I guess EIRS hasn't figured it out either (see next paragraph); when you click on the "Voting Technology" tab on the EIRS site it just drops you into the VV.org national map. The challenge is called database normalization. On the incident reports, the same county is spelled "Alleghany", "Allegheny", "Allegheny County", "Alleghany County", "Allegehny", "allegany", "Allegaheny", "ALLEGEHENY", "Alleganny", on both EIRS's website and their downloadable spreadsheet. The "key" between the two sets of data is the county-state pair, since that's the finest level of granularity in the VV report (there's no zip codes on most of the incident reports). Thus it's impossible to reconcile the two datasets until a human being standardizes the numerous varieties of spelling, capitalization, omission, etc. on the county-state names (the VV.org report looks flawless). I dumped both reports into mySQL (4.1, windoze p4), did a first pass on normalization, and wrote a quick SQL interface for the database-inclined. This example shows that every single touchscreen incident (8 of 8) went Kerry->Bush in Mahoning OH (as Conyers told Blackwell), and involved ES&S iVotronic (unknown version): link Here's all the machine reports in Florida (except for the ones with misspelled counties, missing counties, or wrong state (such as 'Broward Massachusetts')). Lots of ES&S again: iVotronic version 4.3 v.2 switched votes from Kerry to Bush 100% of the time like Mahoning, where version 4.2.7.4.5.0 switched people from Kerry to Nader, Kerry to "Browne", Kerry to Bush, and one Bush to Kerry: link Florida, Sequoia's AVC Edge v3.1: 19 out of 19 switches was a Kerry->Bush: link Looking nationally at Sequoia tech, every single incident (29 of 29 reports by visual reckoning) is a Kerry->Bush (not even Kerry->someone else), using AVC Edge or AVC Advantage ("Apparently the difference between the AVC Edge and the Advantage Is that the Advantage is Wheelchair accessible" -http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=167x1851). Half of them are in Florida, the rest concentrated in Snohomish WA, Douglas Georgia, Bergen NJ, and Franklin Ohio: link Diebold machines with "Accuvote TS" went 18 for 18 Kerry->Bush nationally. Also concentrated in Douglas Georgia, Franklin Ohio, and Harris Texas: link Only the latter-day ES&S and Diebold firmwares have the deterministic Kerry->Bush behavior; older ones like Accuvote 2000 or iVotronic 4.2 are all over the map. All makes of Sequoia do it naturally, but I didn't notice a single SAIC report. I'll work on standardizing the spellings and 2-letter state codes. Feel free to play with the SQL interface if you know SQL; there's no danger of updating/deleting any rows. The tables are named incident and equip, and the column names are listed under the 'sql' button. (edited for redundant syntax on links 2&5) |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-11-05 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. kick n/t |
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Iceburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-11-05 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. Not impossible to reconcile -- use the state and county FIPs code |
in the EIRS data set. Download the state and county FIPS code file from census.gov
This file contains comma-delimited records for each state and county. The records are of the format: State Abbreviation, State FIPS, County FIPS, County Name, FIPS Class Code For example: FL,12,011,Broward,H1 http://www.census.gov/geo/www/fips/fips65/download.html Now you should be able to link to your vv dataset. |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-11-05 03:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. thanks! |
Similar problem: the incidents with missing/misspelled counties have a NULL for county_fips (2722 of em).
Half of them should be fixable by eye; the ones without county (+county_fips), precinct, and polling place are pretty hopeless as far as discovering voting tech. But the '???' anecdotes are pretty low on specifics anyway. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-12-05 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
4. kick n/t |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-13-05 06:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. work in progress (sorry) |
I'm trying to add "clean" data without overwriting the "bad" data; if the "bad" data doesn't checksum with EIRS's data, there's no way of knowing what was doctored and what wasn't. To that end, here's the mental spec for version 0.2:
1) None of the original EIRS data will be changed in any way, so that there's a clear "audit trail" to the primary source. 2) All "fixed" data will be appended to new columns, so it looks something like: case.....county.....county_fips.....new_county.....new_county_fips 12345....ALLGHANEY.....NULL.....Allegheny.....003 3) I'll compare the census fips to EIRS fips, to fill in some of the gaps, and also compare the county_fips to the county_name (I noticed some of the county_fips on EIRS were deduced incorrectly, or at least don't match the Census description) 4) This modest milestone should be ready by around Thursday. |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-13-05 06:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. This will one day be a document like the Magna Carter and the... |
Declaration of Independence--odd as the comparison may seem--because all three represent the initial efforts of a people to free itself of tyranny! First you write it down, you declare it--in this case, the evidence of the mechanism of tyrranny. Think of all those election volunteers, voters and others who went to the trouble to record this information--information that has heretofore always been lost to history! The records of actual voters and their experience of disenfranchisement! This is a great work!
Profound thanks for your work on codifying the information! |
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emlev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-13-05 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
7. I don't know if this will be helpful or not |
and it may be obvious, but the reason for all the misspellings of county names (also polling place names, etc.) in the EIRS system is that most of the reports were taken by phone, sometimes on a cross-country phone call staffed by a volunteer who didn't know the names of the places the voters (and would-be voters) were talking about.
I coordinated the input to the EIRS in the Albuquerque/NM statewide office of the Election Protection Coalition. If I can be of any help, please let me know. What's a FIP? |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-13-05 07:37 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. it's a 3-digit geographic code issued by the Gubmint |
see: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/fips/fips.html
most of the reports were taken by phone, sometimes on a cross-country phone call staffed by a volunteer who didn't know the names of the places the voters (and would-be voters) were talking about Aye, that's the rub. I once had a friend with a Polish surname who collected two dozen credit cards, each spelled differently (before the banks wised up to social security #s) If I can be of any help, please let me know. When you say "most of the reports were taken by phone", could you give me a rough breakdown on the other collection methods? (the database doesn't have a source/method column) |
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emlev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-05 12:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. EIRS data collection methods |
Thanks for the clarification of the acronym.
As far as I know, there were two basic methods by which incidents were reported to the EIRS. The first is through the 1-866-OUR-VOTE hotline. My understanding is that calls to that number were routed to several locations staffed with volunteers, including at least one that had legal volunteers (lawyers, paralegals, maybe law students). The second method was that the Election Protection Coalition (EPC) stationed volunteers at polling places to assist votres and take complaints where necessary. If memory serves, there were crews in 17 states, but multiple cities within those states. Problems were much, much more likely to be reported if they occurred at polling places staffed by EPC volunteers, as we were trained to do our best to check in with each voter about their experience as they left the polls. This gets a lot more information than depending on people who have problems voting knowing the phone number to call and feeling comfortable enough to make the call. So places on the EIRS map that showed few complaints weren't necessarily places with clean elections; they may well just be places where the EPC didn't have crews and there wasn't much publicity about the call-in line. I don't have a sense of the percentage of complaints that were called in versus those collected in person by EPC volunteers. There were probably also a few complaints made by people who contacted local EPC offices in person or by phone. As far as I know, these were the only collection methods. Note that a complaint being taken in person doesn't mean it was taken by someone familiar with the geography (place names, etc.) in the area, as thousands of EPC volunteers traveled from their home states to "swing states" to volunteer. Any more questions? |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-05 11:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. nothing further, your honor |
May I PM you in the future?
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emlev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-05 12:17 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Does the prosecution rest? NEVER! n/t |
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Melissa G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-05 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
10. kick! |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-05 11:00 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. it's 3/4 there |
I seem to get more things done when I'm not on DU, why is that? :P
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Melissa G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-05 11:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. My husband and kids think I should ask that question |
A Lot more often!:dem:
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-05 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
15. does anyone (else) mind if I continue working on this? |
One of the forum elders does, but I can't tell if he speaks for the silent majority:
So far, you have showed us nothing, a week after claiming that you were embarking on your self-proclaimed research project. I call it an obfuscation project. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=369374&mesg_id=378119 If anyone else feels this is taking too long to be credible, please speak up. I have to work 60 hours a week (and wake up in 5 hours), so I can only devote the equivalent of a part-time job. If matching voting incidents to voting machines is "obfuscation", I'll gladly cease and desist. But if anyone here thinks this has potential application, I'd be honored to be the geek that does this piece of grunt work. |
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Kip Humphrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-05 07:26 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. We want more grunts! ...Keep up the good work! |
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LightningFlash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-05 07:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. What is the....Ratio of "25%" I become curious.... |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-05 04:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. that reminds me of the old Scantron machines |
Edited on Wed Jun-15-05 04:45 PM by foo_bar
When they started using them to grade multiple choice tests (#2 pencils only!), some professors would forget they were configured to detect one answer per line. So everyone in the class got the "circle ALL that apply" questions wrong by the machine's reckoning, and the professor ended up grading all the tests by hand.
"Doing it by hand" is the best form of security in most things. Bruce Schneier (edited for the right security expert) once pointed out that retinal scans are useless if you don't have a security guard watching over the machine, making sure the eyeballs are attached to an actual person. Recall the German journalists who fooled the fingerprint readers and iris scanners. None of their tricks would have worked if a reasonably attentive guard had been watching. Conversely, legitimate employees with bandaged fingers or scratched corneas will never make it through security unless a guard at the scene is authorized to overrule the machinery. Giving guards increased authority provides more opportunities for abuse, Schneier says, so the guards must be supervised carefully. But a system with more people who have more responsibility "is more robust," he observed in the June Crypto-Gram, "and the best way to make things work." "The trick is to remember that technology can't save you," Schneier says. "We know this in our own lives. We realize that there's no magic anti-burglary dust we can sprinkle on our cars to prevent them from being stolen. We know that car alarms don't offer much protection. The Club at best makes burglars steal the car next to you. For real safety we park on nice streets where people notice if somebody smashes the window. Or we park in garages, where somebody watches the car. In both cases people are the essential security element. You always build the system around people." source: The Atlantic Monthly |
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mgr (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-05 03:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. It's needed, keep it up. n/t |
We need to start memorializing what we have. The only thing I need to add is pay attention to the long lines tab as well, the two variables seem to go with each other.
Mike |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-05 05:18 AM Response to Original message |
20. the audience participation segment |
Here it is: http://216.254.112.246/cgi-bin/search.pl
Click on a state to see the breakdown by county, voting technology, and voting machine vendor (or "N/A" if there's no vendor, e.g., state-run paper ballots). Clicking on a county/tech/vendor displays the corresponding incidents in HTML format. (To-do: downloadable Excel or tab-separated text.) It's basically the EIRS page plus the VV.org county data, minus pretty graphics. Note that only 38558 incidents (out of 42696) have been joined to the census&VV data so far. Of the remaining 4138 "orphaned" reports, 419 are unknowable (no fips code, and "Unknown" or unintelligible text in county), 12 are out-of-country/embassy, and the remaining 3707 are potentially knowable (2017 of those are missing a county FIPS, and 1690 have an incorrect county fips or state_code). (Here's what changed on the data side since the first post: Created table 'census' (state, county, state FIPS, county FIPS), per Iceburg's link in post #2. Fixed 318 incidents with good county name, bad fips ("Bad fips!") Every incident conforms to the correct 2-letter state abbreviation (+PR Puerto Rico, VI Virgin Islands (somewhat academic since they don't get electoral votes)) Fixed every spelling variation in the VV.org equipment table (now 1:1 with the Census spellings) added column: incident.state_code description: US 2-letter state code purpose: joining to census.state and equip.state, obviating bad state_fips data in the EIRS table added column: equip.county_standard description: standardization of equip.county's that don't appear in census.county purpose: resolving minor spelling variations between VV.org and Census.gov, without overwriting the original data (e.g., "Carson City (city)" vs. "Carson City", "Anchorage Municipality" vs. "Anchorage")) If you have any feature requests or bug reports just holler. I'm going through the 2017 incidents without a county-fips, doing the brute force spelling conversion one record at a time. |
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mgr (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 03:31 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. What are you going to do with the 'unintelligible' |
Some of these may be recoverable if there are any geographic clues. I saw one for Ohio right away.
Mike |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 04:17 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. you're right, a subset has polling_place data |
32 of em (I also missed the parens around the OR). I'll take a look at them, the schools should be easy to locate.
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-05 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
21. the worst voting machine money can buy? (Shouptronic, Philadelphia) |
Philadelphia is actually getting those machines? asks a disbelieving Carlos Kummel, voting-machine director for Fairfax County, Virginia. Man! They're buying themselves a world of trouble.
The Street administration's recent decision to spend $20 million on 20-year-old voting-machine technology has dumbfounded several electoral experts, among them an mit researcher who has rated the machines poorly, and Kummel, who calls them inconvenient, obsolete and a legal liability. "The maintenance fees you're going to face are extremely high," warns Kummel. "Because Danaher is a sole-source vendor, they charge whatever they want for parts. And because the machines are big, you've got big warehouse and trucking bills." http://www.phillymag.com/Archives/2001May/votingsidebar.html Read it and weep: (source: http://216.254.112.246/cgi-bin/search.pl?state=Pennsylvania&county=Philadelphia) case: #28749 Pennsylvania Philadelphia Penrose (12th and Sussquahanah) 10/2/2005 7:07 2004-11-02 04:11:14 PST Machine problem "No one can vote due to machine problems, 2 machines" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #28834 Pennsylvania Philadelphia Roberto Clemente Rec Center "Nov. 2, 7:10 am" 2004-11-02 04:15:47 PST Machine problem machines not working. people -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #28541 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 624 South 62nd Street Nov. 2 7:15 a.m. 2004-11-02 04:19:12 PST Machine problem One of the two polling machines is broken -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #28897 Pennsylvania Philadelphia "Roberto Clemente Rec Center, 18th and Wallace" "Nov. 2, 7:10 am" 2004-11-02 04:19:58 PST Machine problem machines not working. people are leaving in droves -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #28603 Pennsylvania pHILADELPHIA 54 TH & bERKS 7:12 A.M. 2004-11-02 04:21:46 PST Machine problem "mACHINES DO NOT WORK, POLL OFFICIALS DO NOT SEEM TO KNOW WHAT TO DO OR TO PROVIDE BACK UP BALLOTS" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #28882 Pennsylvania philadelphia "624 south 62nd street, ines 2 banquet hall" 7am 2004-11-02 04:24:59 PST Machine problem "machine is down, they have 2 machine only one is working. there's a long line and people are leaving to go home" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #29033 Pennsylvania philadelphia "624 south 62nd street, ines 2 banquet hall" 7am 2004-11-02 04:25:17 PST Machine problem "machine is down, they have 2 machine only one is working. there's a long line and people are leaving to go home" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #28740 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 11/2/2005 7:16 2004-11-02 04:31:22 PST Machine problem voting machines not working -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #28924 Pennsylvania Philadelphia Germantown Community Presbyterian Church 11/2/04 7 am until 7:30 am 2004-11-02 04:31:31 PST Machine problem Voting machine not working for 1/2 hour -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #29076 Pennsylvania Philadelphia County 24th and snyder in Philadelphia 11/2 7:15A 2004-11-02 04:31:36 PST Machine problem "Has arrived at polling place in Philadelphia and has been told that voting machines are not working, and they are waiting for the judge to arrive. " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #29105 Pennsylvania Philadelphia Germantown Community Pres. Church (Tulpehocken @ Green) Nov. 2 7:35 am 2004-11-02 04:36:16 PST Machine problem Both voting machines working -- staff indifferent -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #29237 Pennsylvania philadelphia Germantown pres church at green and tulpehocken by 715 both were down 2004-11-02 04:41:50 PST Machine problem At this precinct both machines are down -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #29016 Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA 2004-11-02 04:44:56 PST Machine problem "WARD 11, DIV 14, 22 W. ONTARIO: JIM...1 MACHINE - POWER FAILURE LIGHT ON; ELECTION OFFICIAL SAID OK" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #29243 Pennsylvania Philadelphia North & 4th 2004-11-02 04:45:26 PST Machine problem none of the emachines work -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #29279 Pennsylvania Philadelphia Kensington Middle School or Elementary on Ontario St between 14th & 15th St. 2004-11-02 04:47:11 PST Machine problem "Caller Harry Daniel was the voter-- 2 machines, both broken. Making everyone vote on provisional ballots. Only have 30 provisional " " {cr}{newline} " " |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-05 04:34 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. compare and contrast |
Edited on Thu Jun-16-05 05:17 PM by foo_bar
(on edit: I'll leave analysis to the analysts, consider this is a "demo". Data first, reports second.)
The identical "Shouptronic 1242" DRE machine was used in all but 7 counties in Kentucky (out of 120 counties), and not a single report of one breaking down. Granted Philadelphia had a lot more people voting on fewer machines, but most of the philly problems happened within minutes of polls opening (at 7am EST, 4am PST (the vv.org data is in PST)). Also note that the Shouptronic (recently acquired by AVC) was named for the president of the company, Ransom Shoup II, a person who was convicted of vote fraud in 1979 ("conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to an FBI inquiry into a lever machine-counted election in Philadelphia" source). Here's the one Shouptronic "machine-related" report in all of KY: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- case: #60384 Kentucky Henry 2004-12-21 11:33:57 PST Machine problem "Caller called to report a machine problem her sister encountered in Henry County, KY. Sister was about to submit her vote electronically when she read the summary of candidates she had chosen. Sister noticed that her vote had been switched from Democrat to Republican. She was able to vote Democrat as she wished, but only because she noticed the error in time." 21 103 KY KY 21 103 Henry H1 KY Henry http://www.kysos.com/Elecfil/Genelectionfiles/votingequip.asp and http://www.sos.state.ky.us/Elecfil/Genelectionfiles/countyclerk.asp 1-Aug-04 (E-Voting: Other) Danaher Controls (Danaher Guardian) Electronic1242 Henry (source) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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mgr (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 05:20 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I think you may have a story to tell. n/t |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 05:26 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. how's this for an opening paragraph? |
Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 05:50 PM by foo_bar
"With us tonight is the Mayor of Philadelphia. Please help me welcome Mayor John Street. (Applause.) Mayor Street has encouraged faith-based and community organizations to make a significant difference in Philadelphia. He's invited me to his city this summer to see compassionate action. I'm personally aware of just how effective the Mayor is. Mayor Street's a Democrat. (Applause.) Let the record show, I lost his city, big time. (Applause.) But some things are bigger than politics. So I look forward to coming to your city, to see your faith-based programs in action..."
- the 2001 SOTU (edit, ten weeks later: "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." —George W. Bush, Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001) |
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mgr (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 05:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Just keep it in quotes n/t |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 05:44 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. the italics are a little hard on the eyes |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 05:57 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. on second thought, you probably meant that figuratively :) |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-23-05 09:43 PM Response to Reply #21 |
33. Liberty Bell Still Ringing -PA is Working to re-examine DANAHER-SHOUP... |
Edited on Thu Jun-23-05 09:43 PM by demodonkey
... and hopefully DE-certify it like we did with the UniLect Patriot. --------------------------- Pennsylvania can yet again rise to defend the democratic ideals of the founders of the USA. (PRWEB) June 17, 2005 -- Concerned voting citizens have petitioned the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to re-examine the Danaher voting system which was associated with election failures in Berks and other counties in the May 2005 primary election. Hundreds of people in multiple precincts had their votes discarded, and a number of races remain undecided. The vendors will blame the locals, but good systems are usable without such problems. Computer scientists are adamant about the security issues, and banks and merchants would never use a computer system so grossly inadequate that no paper records could be produced for transaction confirmation. The system in use was incapable of producing the basic essential of a voter-verified paper ballot. Not only is there no way to prove that the votes 'counted' were accurate, there is no possibility for any form of independent audit or recount. The components will be faulty, the firmware/software flawed, the failure rates astronomical, the 'results' entirely unreliable, and there's no way to know, because these cheat machines are manufactured, programmed, tested, and operated in total secrecy by nonlocal parties not known and not sworn to guard elections, irresponsibly outsourcing critical public work. The vendors are not even bonded or insured, and use of their products has caused millions of dollars of taxpayer losses. MORE... http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/6/prweb251958.htm --------------------------- THE PETITION WAS RECEIVED BY THE PA SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE LAST WEEK, FOLKS. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-05 09:07 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. queue "Eye of the Tiger" |
They stack the odds 'til we take to the street... |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
23. redundancy checking |
The bad news is, 442 of the EIRS incidents are duplicated into 895 records (same exact description, type, polling place, state, county; different case numbers, <3 minutes apart). The good news is, that's 453 fewer rows to worry about fixing by hand. In keeping with the auditability requirement there's a new column "incident.uniqueid" to flag these rows, in case any of these dupes are actually coincidences and not input errors.
The complete list of suspected dupes is documented here. Examples: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 43337 Tennessee "Jones County, MS Registration site" "9:40am, 11/02/04" 2004-11-02 14:05:23 PST Absentee-ballot related problem; Registration-related problem "Wants to vote absentee in different state from current location. (In TN, registered in Mississippi)" No 47 0 TN "Jones County, MS Registration site" TN "Wants to vote absentee in different state from current location. (In TN, registered in Mississippi)" Absentee-ballot related problem; Registration-related problem 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 43505 Tennessee "Jones County, MS Registration site" "9:40am, 11/02/04" 2004-11-02 14:05:48 PST Absentee-ballot related problem; Registration-related problem "Wants to vote absentee in different state from current location. (In TN, registered in Mississippi)" No 47 0 TN "Jones County, MS Registration site" TN "Wants to vote absentee in different state from current location. (In TN, registered in Mississippi)" Absentee-ballot related problem; Registration-related problem 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39939 Colorado Adams 2004-11-02 11:57:46 PST Registration-related problem "Voter believes she registered in Adams County, but isn't quite certain and doesn't know her polling place. She has a registration card from Adams County, but when I tried to look up her polling place the result was in Arapahoe County and the system doesn't have polling place information for that County." 8 1 CO Adams CO "Voter believes she registered in Adams County, but isn't quite certain and doesn't know her polling place. She has a registration card from Adams County, but when I tried to look up her polling place the result was in Arapahoe County and the system doesn't have polling place information for that County." Registration-related problem 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40121 Colorado Adams 2004-11-02 11:59:24 PST Registration-related problem "Voter believes she registered in Adams County, but isn't quite certain and doesn't know her polling place. She has a registration card from Adams County, but when I tried to look up her polling place the result was in Arapahoe County and the system doesn't have polling place information for that County." 8 1 CO Adams CO "Voter believes she registered in Adams County, but isn't quite certain and doesn't know her polling place. She has a registration card from Adams County, but when I tried to look up her polling place the result was in Arapahoe County and the system doesn't have polling place information for that County." Registration-related problem 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30543 Pennsylvania Alleghany approx. 8:00 a.m. 2004-11-02 05:59:01 PST Other polling place problem Her daughter's polling place refused to permit her daughter to bring her 5-year old son into the voting booth. Claimed it was the law. Her daughter is an attorney and asked them to show her the law. 42 3 PA Alleghany PA Her daughter's polling place refused to permit her daughter to bring her 5-year old son into the voting booth. Claimed it was the law. Her daughter is an attorney and asked them to show her the law. Other polling place problem 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30727 Pennsylvania Alleghany approx. 8:00 a.m. 2004-11-02 06:01:17 PST Other polling place problem Her daughter's polling place refused to permit her daughter to bring her 5-year old son into the voting booth. Claimed it was the law. Her daughter is an attorney and asked them to show her the law. 42 3 PA Alleghany PA Her daughter's polling place refused to permit her daughter to bring her 5-year old son into the voting booth. Claimed it was the law. Her daughter is an attorney and asked them to show her the law. Other polling place problem 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22241 Pennsylvania Allegheney 2004-11-01 11:17:03 PST Other Voter called county registrar to find out where she and her husband should vote and was told that she's not on a registered voter list. She hasn't voted since the 2000 election and her husband hasn't voted since before that. They moved to their current address (from another address in Allegheney county) after 2000. In 2002 voter received a registration card at her current address that gave a polling place location. Husband did not receive such a card at that time. No 42 3 PA Allegheney PA Voter called county registrar to find out where she and her husband should vote and was told that she's not on a registered voter list. She hasn't voted since the 2000 election and her husband hasn't voted since before that. They moved to their current address (from another address in Allegheney county) after 2000. In 2002 voter received a registration card at her current address that gave a polling place location. Husband did not receive such a card at that time. Other 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22497 Pennsylvania Allegheney 2004-11-01 11:18:10 PST Other Voter called county registrar to find out where she and her husband should vote and was told that she's not on a registered voter list. She hasn't voted since the 2000 election and her husband hasn't voted since before that. They moved to their current address (from another address in Allegheney county) after 2000. In 2002 voter received a registration card at her current address that gave a polling place location. Husband did not receive such a card at that time. No 42 3 PA Allegheney PA Voter called county registrar to find out where she and her husband should vote and was told that she's not on a registered voter list. She hasn't voted since the 2000 election and her husband hasn't voted since before that. They moved to their current address (from another address in Allegheney county) after 2000. In 2002 voter received a registration card at her current address that gave a polling place location. Husband did not receive such a card at that time. Other 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44482 Pennsylvania Allegheny Beacon Hills apartments nov 2 at 12.40pm 2004-11-02 15:20:06 PST Registration-related problem; Insufficient number of ballots; Provisional ballot problem "had 2 lists - the list he was on they said he would be allowed in springtime, but he had the voter registration card on him that said that he had registered in 2000. they looked at the card as invalid. then, they said they didn't have any provisional ballots available because they had run out. was told to go to the court, go to city council bldg, then go back to the polling station, but he had to go to work. (whereas his wife, the caller, had been registered, but it was her first time voting, and without card, was allowed to vote. " Yes 42 3 PA Allegheny PA "had 2 lists - the list he was on they said he would be allowed in springtime, but he had the voter registration card on him that said that he had registered in 2000. they looked at the card as invalid. then, they said they didn't have any provisional ballots available because they had run out. was told to go to the court, go to city council bldg, then go back to the polling station, but he had to go to work. (whereas his wife, the caller, had been registered, but it was her first time voting, and without card, was allowed to vote. " Registration-related problem; Insufficient number of ballots; Provisional ballot problem Beacon Hills apartments 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 45559 Pennsylvania Allegheny Beacon Hills apartments nov 2 at 12.40pm 2004-11-02 15:21:35 PST Registration-related problem; Insufficient number of ballots; Provisional ballot problem "had 2 lists - the list he was on they said he would be allowed in springtime, but he had the voter registration card on him that said that he had registered in 2000. they looked at the card as invalid. then, they said they didn't have any provisional ballots available because they had run out. was told to go to the court, go to city council bldg, then go back to the polling station, but he had to go to work. (whereas his wife, the caller, had been registered, but it was her first time voting, and without card, was allowed to vote. " Yes 42 3 PA Allegheny PA "had 2 lists - the list he was on they said he would be allowed in springtime, but he had the voter registration card on him that said that he had registered in 2000. they looked at the card as invalid. then, they said they didn't have any provisional ballots available because they had run out. was told to go to the court, go to city council bldg, then go back to the polling station, but he had to go to work. (whereas his wife, the caller, had been registered, but it was her first time voting, and without card, was allowed to vote. " Registration-related problem; Insufficient number of ballots; Provisional ballot problem Beacon Hills apartments 2 |
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Melissa G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 10:59 PM Response to Reply #23 |
31. kickin for good, hard work! |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-23-05 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
32. more release notes |
- added "Export..." link(s) to county, vendor, and tech reports (serves query in spreadsheet-compatible format (Tab-delimited text, understood by File->Open... in Excel or Access)).
- added column to incident: 'uniqueid', non-nullable integer -- Zero means unique, or the first occurrence of a particular dupe (to exclude dupes without excluding the duped) -- Nonzero values are the case_number of the first occurrence above (if cases #30997 through #30999 are dupes, #30997 has a uniqueid of 0, #30998 and #30999 have a uniqueid of 30997) 425 rows have non-zero values, and can be viewed as an exception report via "WHERE uniqueid <> 0" (also revised in the web interface). To view the entire dupe-dupee hierarchy, "WHERE (uniqueid <> 0 or case_number in (select uniqueid from incident))". |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-06-05 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
35. v.3: 2004 election results, crosstabulated by vendor/tech/state |
Edited on Thu Jul-07-05 12:09 AM by foo_bar
Examples:
New York: AVM Lever (Kerry: 68.4% / Bush: 30.3% / Nader: 1.19%) Sequoia (Bush: 52.8% / Kerry: 45.2% / Nader: 1.87%) http://216.254.112.246/cgi-bin/search.pl?state=New%20York Pennsylvania: E-Voting: Other (Kerry: 77.6% / Bush: 22.3%) E-Voting: Touchscreen (Bush: 50.1% / Kerry: 49.8%) http://216.254.112.246/cgi-bin/search.pl?state=Ohio North Carolina: E-Voting: Other (Kerry: 51.0% / Bush: 48.9%) E-Voting: Touchscreen (Bush: 53.0% / Kerry: 46.9%) http://216.254.112.246/cgi-bin/search.pl?state=North%20Carolina Index page: http://216.254.112.246/cgi-bin/search.pl (edited out Nader naughts) |
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