New Electronic Voter Registration Database Rejects 43% in LA County Alone!

[BradBlog]

DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING: New Electronic Voter Registration Database Rejects 43% of New Los Angeles Voter Applications! 26% Rejected State-Wide in California!
Applications That Don't Match EXACTLY With DMV Records are Automatically Dumped by New System!
California's League of Women Voters Sends Letter of Objection to Secretary of State

It's an entirely new can of worms in the Electronic Rape of American Electoral Democracy. The next wave -- beyond the electronic voting machines, and perhaps even more alarming -- in the arsenal of those out to game the system for partisan advantage.

California, and other states around the country, including Ohio, have now implemented the new voter registration databases called for by HAVA. They've used an "exact match" value which results in simply rejecting names like "Brad Friedman" if they don't match "Bradley Friedman" as found in the state's motor-vehicle registration database.

As such, today it was announced that the new system has rejected 43% of the voters who registered from Jan. 1 to March 15" in Los Angeles County alone! And state-wide, some 26% of new registrations and re-registrations have been summarily dumped!
Even worse, guess who's writing the software for the new system in California, Ohio and elsewhere? That's right...our old friends at Diebold, Inc...

FULL STORY, STATEMENT FROM LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS AND MORE:
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002619.htm

[LaPera]

1. This is how it all begins, with a republican (CA) Secretary of State...

in Florida, Ohio & Georgia...then it proceeds to get worse as the voting machine are manipulated and the republicans untimely steal the state!!!

California's APPOINTED republican Secretary of State McPherson, is as sleazy as they come...APPOINTED through Rove & the WH - by equally sleazy republican Guv. Musclehead Arnold, to get those Diebold machine in place in California to steal the state, because they know they can't win it with their bullshit republican ideology!!!!

[3waygeek]

38. Cathy Cox, GA Sec of State

who introduced Diebold machines, is a Democrat.

[stop the bleeding]

2. These Secretary of States are a loop hole that needs to be closed

this keeps happening over and over.

[stickdog]

3. Assholes. Let's apply the same standard to paying our taxes!

If the IRS gets anything wrong, let's just reject paying it completely.

[slay]

4. Paper ballots and hand counts NOW!

It's the only way to combat these GOP CRIMINALS! :mad:

[Nikki Stone1]

5. Oh my God. Neutralizing the Dem vote for November!

We gotta stop this.

[Initech]

6. Diebold offices are popping up like weeds in California.

It sucks... why cant these bastards get that their machines dont work? Oh wait...

[DFW]

7. Why the surprise?

Ever since the introduction of Republican-made and Republican-programmed
electronic voting machines, all they have ever done is produce "surprising upsets"
for Republican candidates or referendums (Ohio, 2005).

If this is not stopped, our democracy is only a sham, and seeing as how this is
the ONLY way the Republicans can win crucial races, they will use these machines
anywhere they can until stopped. Now the hard part--just what WILL it take to halt
their unsupervised use?

[BradBlog]

8. Kicking. For democracy... NT

[Nikki Stone 1]

11. Not so much surprise as horror

These are truly evil people. I guess it takes the last illusions away

[Wilms]

9. K&R n/t

[Imagevision]

10. Diebold should be forced out of anything to do with elections!!!!

[fearnobush]

12. This is quite similar to how JEB stole Florida in 2000.

Choice Point voter lists scrubbed by rejecting Sir names and removing middle initials from names, then parring them with convicted felon names to reject there voter registration ID.

[Nothing Without Hope]

13. K & R. What's the procedure that people have to go through to get

back onto the polls after being dumped, even if they somehow manage to find out that they HAVE been dumped? (I assume most wouldn't find out until they were turned away on Election Day.) How long would reinstatement take? Do they have to take off from work and sit in a government office?

I hope that the news media at least in California will pick up this story. Democracy crumbling indeed!

[Melissa G]

14. Thanks Brad! This news utterly reeks! Stinkin ' Blatant corruption!

[texpatriot2004]

15. They should just put out a sign that reads, "Republicans

welcome to vote, all others don't bother."

[lovuian]

16. Yep the voter registration is the new wave of cheating!!!

You can see why getting Arnold in was so important!!!
so they could steal votes!!!

[EFerrari]

17. Brad, how do we know Diebold is writing it? OMG, the

spokesliar for McPherson LIED his ass off to me today when I asked him who the vendor was.

He lied outright. :wow:

[Amaryllis]

18. kick

[EFerrari]

19. They smeared and got rid of Kevin, they're shoving in Diebold

and now they're going to purge the voting rolls.

:nuke:

[Amaryllis]

20. Check this out- no wonder they had to get rid of Shelley:

http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/touchscreen.htm
Just poke around here a bit...
Look at the letter he sent to the vendors about his requirements for them.

http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/ks_dre_papers/ks_ts_response_vendor.pdf
Here are a few items:
4. Background Checks - In order to assure that vendors are using programmers and designers of software that have only a commitment to creating the best product, and to prevent easily foreseeable problems for individuals with a clear history of criminal activity and/or mental instability, manufacturers who seek certification of a system in California will be required to conduct background checks of programmers and developers before they are hired to work on election system software. My office will establish standards for these background checks, and will require that results of the checks be made available to the State upon request.

5. Internal Security – My office will establish protocols and procedures for manufacturers to comply with, in order to guarantee that strict internal security procedures are used during their software development process. Manufacturers shall be required to submit employee and other internal security procedures with their certification materials.

6. Chain of Custody – I am requiring that manufacturers document a clear chain of custody for the handling of software to assure that all software and storage units containing software are handled, tested and transported in an appropriate manner. In addition, transfers of software over the Internet will be prohibited. My staff will provide guidance to all manufacturers on these issues.

7. Civil Liability – I will seek legislation to impose civil liability and stiff criminal penalties if any malicious code is found in a voting system before, during, or after certification, whether such malicious code interferes with an election or simply was intended to interfere. This effort is based on the concerns of many people that employees of manufacturers are a threat to the security of voting systems. I would urge your company to support this effort to assure greater confidence in our voting systems.

My office will provide more detail on each of these items to you by December 31, 2003, in an effort to increase security of voting systems in California and across the nation. I urge your company as well as your competitors to join me in the effort to increase confidence in our voting systems and work with me to implement these new procedures and requirements.

Clearly he was on to them, and they knew it.

[EFerrari]

21. Smearing Kevin was key. They needed to capture the office.

I am sitting here in shock. Not because I'm surprised but because for a minute there, I thought we were holding this off.

[Amaryllis]

30. holding this off?

[EFerrari]

32. With all the machine failures, the press was going our way

for a minute.

I wasn't even thinking about voter reg -- when that's a much easier theft for them.

[Amaryllis]

35. Oh, yes. It;s really been overlooked by many....

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Yeah. I smelled that for a smear job on Shelley right away.

Seeing as they were instrumental in drumming up all this media 'thunder' against KS (like about how he was a 'mean boss' who had once thrown his cell phone, that kind of thing) I wonder who greased the SF Chronicle's palms for that one?

[EFerrari]

31. It was disgusting. Even in the retrospective at the end of the year

the ED page continued to insinuate that he was a criminal even though none of the allegations turned out to be true.

[file83]

22. Why aren't people being put in JAIL for this?

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Oh, thank god, I'm sure Bruce McFuckson will be right on top of it.

:grr:

[EFerrari]

25. We need to work for Debra, if it isn't too late already.

These BASTARDS.

:nuke:

[cascadiance]

26. On the eve of the San Diego election here, I have one big question...

This election seems so much a target for the wingnuts to steal. I've been trying to figure out how they are going to do it. Thought it might have been through the TSX machines that McPherson so awkwardly announced, and hinted would be used in this election. Well, we found out that we're still using scanned ballots for this election.

Just got back from doing phone banking tonight where we were able to contact over 3000 voters just from the one office alone downtown. The thought just occured to me though after this news today.

First question:

Are we doing phone banking working with just 57% of those new voters' names instead of all of them? Would this newer setup be restricting what we are allowed to see as registered voters that we can contact? Therefore those that might need to know most from us where they vote, because they haven't received any ballots in the mail, and might vote for Francine, we don't have on our radar to contact.

And more sinisterly, the second question:

Is it possible, with Diebold responsible for this, that the right wing folks (Republicans, etc.) might be getting a more full snapshot of voter contacts that include those "misses" so that they AREN'T missing that 57% of new voters that we in the Busby campaign aren't getting? Might it be their plan that they can have *EXCLUSIVE* access to these voters that they can call, but we can't?

I'm not saying this is happening, but I wonder if there's a way we can check on this and confirm that it isn't. If there are tons of voters they have access to and we don't, that could be what turns the election to keep her from winning on April 11th.

Anyway, enquiring minds want to know. If we are having a disparity between what we see as voter lists versus others, the time is now to find out if this is so and correct, or to ensure that this ISN'T a problem to be worried about.

[Chi]

27. They did the same damn thing in Cleveland for 04...I'm all outta shock

None left in the tank.

Nothing left to do but embrace the Fascism...and thank all those who said it wasn't happening.

[Wilms]

28. Kick

[Land Shark]

29. Let's look at what this can really mean

1. Not just the obvious disfranchisement, but also
2. Voters are presented with the specter of committing a felony if they proceed to vote: the state records are admissible as evidence of having voted, in all likelihood.
3. Voters with perhaps a slight criminal record or know others who have may not vote out of pure fear of having to deal with more system-hassle.
4. If a jurisdiction shows 2000 voters as having already voted, someone there may have the presence of mind to realize they can vote 2000 times to equalize the number of voters and votes.
5. the voter is kicked over to a provisional ballot. The pollbooks still say they voted so when they call in to verify their provisional vote, they may be told (falsely) that it was counted, based on the pollbook showing they voted the regular way.
6. In one form of election fraud called the "hack 'n stack" the voter reg list is decimated, and the provisional ballots (which are kept loose and subject to extensive "investigation" and manipulation prior to being counted, can be altered, substituted or destroyed. As usual no one ever knows because once the ballot is allowed, all connection back to the original voter is broken.
7. in close elections, disproportionate numbers of one party being sent into the ranks of provisional voters means that the other party has a lead and may be declared winner artificially, giving an important advantage and allowing time to contest provisionals.
8. People in lower economic classes move more often and probably change their name spellings more often. They attempt to match not only against DMV records but also federal records, doubling the chance of a rejection. rates of rejection based on address match will occur at statistically predictable rates for different demographic groups.
9. In other words, the so called "glitch" becomes not only direct disfranchisement, but a fraud opportunity.
10. If the voter is merely prevented from voting, this method of disfranchisement or suppression is NOT EXIT POLL DETECTABLE, because suppression never is.
11. Every bit of complication added to the process causes at least some voters to decide the hassle ain't worth it, as they have to learn procedures on what to do if their name is not in the pollbooks, or find a number to call in advance to verify both registration and nonvoting status.
12. State laws, interestingly enough, like those in Washington state, explicitly RELIEVE THE COUNTIES OF THE DUTY TO HAVE PAPER BACKUP RECORDS FOR REGISTRATION DATA. Merely a cost-saving measure I'm sure. Who cares about backup?

[EFerrari]

36. These are the measures that have been deployed

against Black voters.

The field is leveled now.

[trogdor]

33. How do we know Bradley Friedman didn't try to register twice?

Would you be happy with a system that allows multiple registrations just by munging one's name? I mean, Robert Smith could also be Rob Smith, or Bob Smith, or Bobby Smith. I'd say the system is working like it's designed to.

[EFerrari]

37. No, the system will be working like it's designed to when

thousands of black, brown, senior and student Californians have their vote ripped off. :)

[Zhade]

34. KICK

KICK