Landslide or not, there are predictions of voting glitches

By GottaLaff

Paddy and I were just talking about election fraud today. It is my biggest fear:

New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, which follows voting issues, suggests looking at Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and swing states Colorado and Virginia.

In a report released Thursday, the center rates states on their Election Day readiness, including their plans for repairing voting machines, providing emergency paper ballots, verifying vote counts, holding post-election vote audits and reconciling the number of ballots with the number of voters.

Brennan rated Alaska, California, Minnesota, Missouri and Oregon as most ready. Florida [...] and Ohio [...] ranked in the middle.

Among the report’s warnings:

–Louisiana, Nevada, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia have no state requirement that emergency paper ballots to be available in case voting machines fail.

–Nineteen states, including Colorado, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Virginia, use voting machines that have no voter-verifiable paper record.

–Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia need “improvement” when it comes to accounting for all the ballots and voters after the polls close.

The center warned that “voting systems will fail somewhere in the United States in one or more jurisdictions in the country. Unfortunately, we don’t know where.”

The night of November 4th is going to be endless.

UPDATE:

Ohio Files Appeal to Supreme Court on Voter Registration Data 16 Oct 2008 Ohio's attorney general filed an emergency appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court late Wednesday night seeking to block a lower court decision that could cost many thousands of Ohio voters a chance to cast a regular ballot Nov. 4. About 660,000 new voters have registered since January with an edge to Democrats. The filing on behalf of Ohio's Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner contends that upholding a Tuesday decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit would create havoc on Election Day and cause many voters to cast "provisional" ballots that may or may not ultimately be tallied depending on judgments by local elections boards.