Reply #123: where is donna when we scream all over the country about these voting [View All]

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machines..no where..we just had a SOE test on our machines 3 days ago in Pinellas co fla..the test failed..it failed with the new software..so what does the SOE do..she loads the machines with the old software to try to make the fucking machines pass...and where the fuck is donna when we have screamed and begged for help in fla..so do you think 1800 donna is going to fucking help us..fuck no!

i have been a poll watcher at large for primaries , for early vote and general..i have myself screamed for help...and called directly to donna in washington..to no avail

its only people on the ground using their own money, their own time and devotion..and where the fuck is donna..having lunch with karl rove..fuck her!




Voting system finally passes
A voting rights advocate, however, says after the test that she wouldn't trust the machines.
By WILL VAN SANT, Times Staff Writer
Published August 18, 2006

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After having failed the first time around, Pinellas County's voting system passed a pre-election check on Thursday.

Voting machines will be delivered to polling sites today so that early voting for the Sept. 5 primary can begin as scheduled on Monday.

The result was a good one for Supervisor of Elections Office officials, who on Wednesday had grappled with a voting system that fell short during what's called a logic and accuracy test.

But voting rights advocates who observed the process were not impressed.

"I wouldn't trust these machines," said Linda McGeehan, a vice president of the St. Petersburg League of Women Voters. "I feel much more insecure now after seeing this."

The logic and accuracy test involves running a controlled election with a determined outcome and seeing whether the system delivers a correct result.

Election officials said they ran two tests of the system before Wednesday's failed one. In each case, the result was a success: the control and final results matched.

The way the second test was held Thursday irked the League of Women Voters' McGeehan.

Under state law, logic and accuracy tests are open to public scrutiny. Yet for much of the day, McGeehan said the ability to observe was constrained.

And promises by election officials to provide an explanation for the system's initial failure were slow in coming.

Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark said it had been decided to first attempt a successful test before addressing the concerns of observers like McGeehan so that delays to her office's work schedule could be avoided.