Elections in Virginia

[BeFree]

Over in the Election Reform Forum, I have posted a thread with the intent of using the close examination of the voting procedure in Virginia as a practice session for Election Reform advocates. If we can point out the irregularities sure to be found during yall's governor's election, we can get a leg up on what to expect in the congressional elections 2006.

If yall have any information you'd like the Election Reform Forum to look at, come see us.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=397521&mesg_id=397521

[FSogol]

1. What's the deal with the "yall's"?

Are you being cute or condescending?

[BeFree]

3. Yall's

Not being an English major (actually failed), and being a southerner who loves the yall term, using the yall's term in this case was suggesting the possesion of the election as being yall's.

Ya got a problem with that?

[autorank]

2. Virginia Information, Fairfax County Virginia - Info and Problems

Fairfax County is the largest county in VA, 1.0 million people. It's part of Northern Virginia, which has about 25-30% of the state's population and 50-60% of the wealth. There was a huge screw up in 2001 and the Republicans lost votes. They were furious.

We use

Advanced Voting Solutions, WINvote™ - Fairfax County

http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/eb/winvote_equip.htm

The Republicans wrote this amazing report on ballot integrity, etc.

"Operation Ballot Integrity" Fairfax County Republicans
http://verifiedvoting.org/downloads/FRC_ballot_integrity.pdf

-- no removal of machines from locations once election starts
-- detailed autit procedures
-- verified voter paper ballot trail and mandatory recount 0.5% for comparison of paper versus DRE totals
-- require DRE vendors make their source code available.

This is quite a stunner.

Here is the state map from VerifiedVoting.Org

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/map.php?&topic_string=5std&state=Virginia

I think that this is a good idea. I know that the campaign here is focused on election integrity. There will be a stink if something comes up.