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Updated 2/6/08  

2008 PRIMARY VOTE FRAUD NEWS

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NH Secretary of State lies about recount results (BradBlog via MParent 1/17/08)

Huge NH vote disparities in Manchester Ward 5 during hand counts (Brad Blog 1/17/08)

NH Recount Discrepancy: Nashua Ward 5 has 7.5% discrepancy for Clinton, Edwards (BradBlog via MParent 1/22/08)

Who counts in New Hampshire? And are Diebold memory cards forgetful? (audio and transcript KPFT Radio, Houston via MParent)

Questions unfolding throughout New Hampshire (Propaganda Matrix 1/29/08)

Bev Harris: New Hampshire recount is a “criminal enterprise” (PrisonPlanet 1/28/08)

Italian newspaper suggests Hillary’s NH win a miracle of technology (AgoraCosmopolitan 1/22/08)

Who’s Responsible? New Hampshire Chain of Custody Scam (YouTube 1/28/08)

Part Two: New Hampshire ballots not kept in vault, and ’seals’ don’t seal ballot boxes 

Howard highlights ease of recount fraud (PrisonPlanet 1/29/08)

SOUTH CAROLINA

Train Wreck 2008: The Horry County, SC Voting Machine Disaster (John Gideon of VotersUnite.org via MParent 1/19/08)

South Carolina primary plagued by bad voting machines (CNN 1/19/08)

CNN: SC voting machines have no paper trail; open to fraud (YouTube)

NEVADA

Widespread cheating and vote suppression by Clinton campaign in Clark County NV (DailyKos 1/19/08)

Nevada GOP caucus complaints emerge (KOLO TV 1/19/08)

Nevada GOP dismisses Paul complaint (PrisonPlanet 1/19/08)

EXCERPT: “The Paul campaign complained that voters have received postcards with incorrect caucus locations, that eligibility requirements to participate have been changed several times, and that several rural counties could run out of ballots. “The inconsistencies, errors and multiple changes in the rules reek of playing politics with the what should be a neutral process,” said campaign manager Lew Moore said in a statement. “The people of Nevada deserve to know exactly what the rules are and to know that those rules are being fairly enforced. This has not happened up to this point, and the caucus appears to be in chaos.”

FLORIDA

Florida Precinct D0001 records 110% turnout of registered voters (ClarityElections 1/30/08)

Florida primary voters reporting problems (Orlando Sentinel 1/29/08)

Problems in Florida primary vote (via Raw Story 1/29/08)

CALIFORNIA

Voting Goes Smoothly in Most Places (NYTimes 2/6/08)  

California voting machine problems (PBS 1/16/08)

“Fatal pending” errors in California voter registration database (OpEdNews 2/1/08)

Over 30,000 will be unable to vote in LA County alone, without any prior notification

Delay expected in California Super Tuesday results (NBC11 1/30/08)

More reports of ballot shortages and confused independents (MotherJones 2/6/08)  

14 Alameda Counties ran out of Democratic ballots and stayed open until 10pm by court order (MotherJones 2/6/08)

OTHER STATES

Problems crop up early in Super Tuesday voting (Raw Story 2/5/08)

Voting goes mostly smoothly despite a few glitches (AP/Houston Chronicle 2/5/08)

Multiple Errors in Louisiana caucus creates GOP challenge (BlackHills Portal 1/27/08)

GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver Voting Machines in Maryland (Wired 1/16/08)

$700 bribe buys access to voting machine (with video, via MParent 1/31/08)

Ward Superintendent charged with vote fraud (Chicago Sun Times 1/29/08)

My Adventures in Voting Irregularities – Brooklyn NY  (Adage 2/5/08)

 

OTHER SUPER TUESDAY NEWS

Romney accuses McCain, Huckabee of ’shady’ WV deal (The Hill 2/5/08)

Ron Paul secures 3 delegates from West Virginia (RonPaul2008 2/5/08)

Little e-voting accountability on Super Tuesday (CBS via Raw Story 2/3/08)

SuperTuesday Fuzzy Math (AP via Raw Story 2/3/08)

States prepare for tests of changes to voting system (NYTimes 2/5/08)

4.5 Million voters in six states unable to vote in ‘closed primaries’ (Stateline 2/1/08)

Democracy in action  

  

OTHER ELECTION FRAUD NEWS

Sarasota’s Vanished Votes: 2006 [pdf] (Florida Fair Elections 1/08)

NPR’s overview of states’ e-voting plans, including California and Ohio scrapping many machines (2/4/08)

Amid troubling reports of election integrity, Democrat introduces paper ballot legislation (via Raw Story 1/17/08)

Too little, too late. This guy’s just heard that there might be voting machine issues? 

Colorado will use paper ballots this year (ABC 7 Denver 1/23/08)

Rep. Conyers lodges bill to ban voter caging (Raw Story 1/17/08)

Ditto.

EXCERPT: “Voter caging is the practice of mailing a letter to a registered voter at his or her recorded address. In the event that a letter is returned undeliverable, a voter is then flagged: his or her registration, and thereby the subject’s right to vote, faces a legal challenge.

“During the 2004 Election, challengers monitored every single one of Detroit’s 254 polling stations,” said Rep. Conyers today. “With a Michigan lawmaker advocating ’suppress the Detroit vote,’ it was obvious why the challengers were at every polling place – to create a tense and hostile environment for those eligible voters who simply wished to participate in our democracy by casting a ballot.”

Tens of thousands of voters, including soldiers and college students, are estimated to have been disenfranchised as a result of voter caging. The Caging Prohibition Act of 2008, with nine co-sponsors, seeks to make the practice illegal. It would effectively bar challenges to votes initiated by voter caging, and prohibit any person other than an election official from challenging a person’s eligibility to vote based on information obtained through caging.”

Fox News on Diebold Electronic Vote Flipping in Florida (YouTube 2/1/08)

Mistrust of voting machines on the rise (Houston Chronicle 1/21/08)

Texas sticking with electronic balloting despite reports of flaws

History: The Battle of Athens, TN – For Fair Elections – August 2, 1946 (Constitution.org)

 Should Voting Machine Makers Be Sued Like Big Tobacco? (Alternet 11/2/07)

“Attorneys and activists say taxpayers are due refunds for buying products the manufacturers knew were defective”

Previously:

1/17/08: Do the Candidates Even Matter? Election Fraud News

1/17/08: 2008 Elections: On the Candidates

1/10/08: Election News: Suggestions for Reform, Videos, and more

1/10/08: 2008 Voting Machine Fraud Update

1/10/08: 2008 Election Fraud News (primaries and old school election fraud)

1/5/08: Campaign 08: Democratic Candidates

1/5/08: Campaign 08: Republicans

1/5/08: Ron Paul Update

1/5/08: Campaign ’08: Candidates on the Issues

12/23/07: General Election News 

12/23/07: Campaign 08: Democrats

12/23/07: Ron Paul Special

12/23/07: Giuliani and Romney

12/23/07: Huckabee and McCain

8/27/07: More 2008 Election News and Vote Fraud Update

8/18/07: 2008 Candidate Gossip and Election Fraud Round-up 

7/26/07: Impeachment and Election News

6/30/07: I wish the US were a Democracy: Election and Impeachment Links

6/7/07: Democracies Require Free and Fair Elections