From Kathy Dopp:

Here is just ONE (1) day of news stories re. electronic voting problems in November 7 election (stories are continuing to unfold). One county using Diebold voting machines in another state has still not announced their election results due to memory card failures. Utah county’s “glitch” disenfranchised voters and touchscreens caused long lines in Utah. Federal law only requires ONE (1) touchscreen voting machine in each polling place for the disabled to use – Utah could use optical scan paper ballots which are conveniently manually auditable, voter verified, less expensive, cause no long lines; and are not susceptible to power outages, denial of service attacks, and vote flipping attacks. Is there any reason to trust insufficiently manually audited invisible e-ballots which are secretly counted by proprietary humanly-unreadable machine language software on voting machines whose components are made in China, Canada, and various U.S. states?
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It took over 24 hours for Cook Co. Illinois to count their votes. That’s with their brand-new Smartmatic clone Sequoia voting machines. County Clerk David Orr conceded that the hardware and software being used should be re-examined. / One of the striking problems that has come up around the country is the reason for long lines in many places. They just didn’t buy enough machines for the turnout they had. Another boon for the vendors when all they really needed to do was buy one Precinct-Based Optical Scan (PBOS) for each precinct and there would have been no need to go out and buy more DRE machines. And the cause of the long lines in Denver; poorly written, poorly tested voter registration software from Sequoia.

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Kathy Dopp, Desert Greens candidate for Summit County Clerk sent this today:

In Summit County, the manual audit is being held today (Monday) at 10 a.m. at the County Building.

I assume that the manual audits are also being held today in other counties, but please call your own county clerk to find out for sure.

In Summit County, the final canvass is being held on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the County Courthouse.

It would be great to go observe the manual audit and final vote canvass for your county. I’ve been told that the public may observe the manual audit, even though the written procedures do not require it – except to say a counting poll worker or watcher may observe – which I think means that anyone appointed by a political party or a candidate may observe.

We have an time critical need here in Utah. Please help find a Utah Senator and Utah Congressional Rep in the Utah Legislature to sponsor our independent audit legislation:

Click to access VoteCountAudit-UT.pdf

based on scientifically agreed-upon election audit principles (posted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology web site):

Click to access ElectionIntegrityAudit.pdf

Kathy Dopp
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