Take Back America! Election Reform & Related News Tues 10/24/05

[Melissa G]

Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday 10/24/05

These People Are Coordinating Exit Poll Data!!!
Check out Post Number 1 for Details! Woo Hoo! :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

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[Melissa G]

1. Major Independent Exit Poll Projects to Coordinate

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Major Independent Exit Poll Projects to Coordinate


With increased consciousness of the dangers of electronic vote-counting technology, there is increasing grassroots pressure for independent election verification. In elections around the world, public-domain exit polls are central to such efforts. Unfortunately, US media consortium exit pollsters have announced that they will no longer release any data even to their media clients until they can "correct" their numbers so as to make them conform to the official count. In other words, what they report is no longer exit poll data at all, but rather a meaningless affirmation of official numbers.


To obtain an honest assessment of how people voted and whether or not machines are recording votes accurately, groups around the nation have developed plans to conduct exit polls. We are pleased to announce that several groups at the forefront of the national election integrity movement groups pushing for independent exit polls are will be coordinating in this effort under the banner of the Vote Count Protection Project.


The combined exit poll will implemented by Kenneth Warren of The Warren Poll, Steven F. Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania, and Jonathan Simon of the Election Defense Alliance. At the same time, election data forensics will be implemented by Stephanie F. Singer of Campaign Scientific and Bruce O'Dell of the Election Defense Alliance.


All data and findings will be available for independent analyses.


More information is available on the web:
http://www.electionintegrity.org/vcpp.shtml
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org


For more information, please contact Stephanie F. Singer at [e-mail] or at 215-715-3479.


The Vote Count Protection Project is an initiative of the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism, a 501(c)(3) organization. The Election Defense Alliance is a 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax-deductible.




Stephanie Frank Singer
Director, Vote Count Protection Project
http://www.electionintegrity.org/vcpp.shtml
tel: [phone]

[Melissa G]

2. EXCLUSIVE: CHICAGO REGISTRATION DATABASE HACKED! 1.5 MILLION VOTERS PERSONAL

Yea ! Bradblog! DU Discussion here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2464259


EXCLUSIVE: ELECTION SECURITY BREACH - CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION DATABASE DISCOVERED VULNERABLE TO HACKERS!
Personal Information, Social Security Numbers, Birthdates of 1.5 Million Voters Exposed to Online Tampering, Downloading, Identification Theft!
Breach Discovered, Video-Taped by Illinois Election Integrity Organization

Blogged from the road by Brad Friedman

Another stunning security breach has been exposed in our nation's electoral system, The BRAD BLOG has learned, as the online voter registration database - containing the personal information of some 1.5 million voters in Chicago - has been found to be vulnerable to both downloading and hacking.

The flawed electronic database which allowed the retrieval and modification of personal voter information - including social security numbers and birthdates of Chicago voters - was discovered recently by members of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project (IBIP), a non-partisan group of Election Integrity advocates.

IBIP members say they were able to not only get full editing access to the online database, but also found they could modify the records for registered voters, setting them to inactive and otherwise changing addresses and other key information fields.

An exclusive version of that video-taped hacked has been made available to The BRAD BLOG.

Cook County elections officials are said to be scrambling to plug the hole in what has become an ever-increasingly unsecured system of voting in America in light of new regulations, encouraging the use of electronic voting systems and state-wide registration databases, as set forth by Congress' Help America Vote Act (HAVA) after the 2000 Election Debacle....

FULL EXCLUSIVE DETAILS, STATEMENT FROM IBIP:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3654

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Brad Friedman
THE BRAD BLOG - The uprising continues...
http://www.BradBlog.com
VELVET REVOLUTION - The revolution begins...
http://www.VelvetRevolution.us

[Melissa G]

3. Cover of ROLLING STONE this week: WORST CONGRESS EVER!

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Cover of ROLLING STONE this week: WORST CONGRESS EVER!
Just got my copy in the mail. They talk about why this is the worst Congress ever, why they should be voted out, and then they go on to name the 10 worst offenders:



1. Dennis Hastert - The Highway Robber (R-IL)
2. James Sensenbrenner - The Dictator(R-WI)
3. Don Young - Mr. Pork (R-AK)
4. William Jefferson - The Bribe Taker (D-LA)
5. Jerry Lewis - The King Of Payoffs (R-CA)
6. Tom Tancredo - Mr. Bigotry (R-CO)
7. Dick Pombo - The Enemy Of The Earth (R-CA)
8. Curt Weldon - The Conspiracy Nut (R-PA)
9. Hal Rodgers - Homeland Security Hog (R-KY)
10. Marilyn Musgrave - The Queen Of Gay Bashing (R-CO)

Full Article:


There is very little that sums up the record of the U.S. Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?

These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.

To be sure, Congress has always been a kind of muddy ideological cemetery, a place where good ideas go to die in a maelstrom of bureaucratic hedging and rank favor-trading. Its whole history is one long love letter to sleaze, idiocy and pigheaded, glacial conservatism. That Congress exists mainly to misspend our money and snore its way through even the direst political crises is something we Americans understand instinctively. "There is no native criminal class except Congress," Mark Twain said -- a joke that still provokes a laugh of recognition a hundred years later.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/worst_congress_ever

[Fly by night]

7. Things must be bad if Tom Feeney (R-Diebold) didn't make the cut.

[Melissa G]

4. Great Column in Denver Post re: bad voting machines in CO

Thanks to bobbolink for the post and the DU discussion here..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x454305
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Great Column in Denver Post re: bad voting machines in CO
Please read the column, and send her a thank-you email.
Thanks!

Also posted in GD:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2460111
Denver post column on defective voting machines
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4527318?source=rss

It's a must: hackerproof democracy
By Diane Carman
Denver Post Staff Columnist
Article Last Updated:10/22/2006 03:49:04 AM MDT

I snipped the whole first part, which is also worth reading.
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While county clerks and the besieged Secretary of State Gigi Dennis have tried to reassure voters that the systems always have been secure, the eight-page findings of fact and conclusions of law released last week by Denver District Judge Lawrence Manzanares paint a picture of a flawed patchwork system, vulnerable to manipulation and suffering from lax oversight by the secretary of state.

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"The court concludes that the secretary has not established minimum security" as required by state statute "and did not adequately test" the electronic voting machines, Manzanares wrote. The secretary's office "did not carefully evaluate the county security plans and in some cases approved plans that do not substantially comply with the minimum requirements" of the law.

The judge's stinging criticism was particularly worrisome in light of the testimony that computer scientists from Prince ton University hacked into a voting machine made by Diebold Election Systems Inc. and reprogrammed it in one minute.

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Not just incidentally, it's also the company that was represented by lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff while the House Government Operations Committee was establishing rules for electronic voting systems. And that committee was chaired by Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio, another convicted felon.

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If the U.S. is willing to sacrifice life and limb for the cause of democracy abroad, the least it can do is find the money to keep it from becoming a laughingstock at home.

Diane Carman's column appears Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. She can be reached at 303-954-1489 or [e-mail] .

Please send her an email, and let her know her comments are appreciated!

[Algorem]

5. Bill Clinton - "to make sure we count the votes," a poke at Ken Blackwell

<The former president also urged the election of other Ohio Democrats, noting he especially wanted Jennifer Brunner to win the race for secretary of state "to make sure we count the votes," a poke at J. Kenneth Blackwell, current Republican secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate...>


Clinton speaks passionately for Democratic candidates

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/election/election.php?story=221588

By Mark Niquette
The Columbus Dispatch
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:03 AM

Decrying what he called Republican "ideologues" who seek to concentrate wealth and power and divide Americans, former President Clinton rallied Democrats in Columbus last night to elect U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown and other party candidates Nov. 7...

Clinton called Brown, a congressman from Avon, the "polar opposite of the crowd that has run our national politics for the last six years."...

Brown said he and U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, the Democratic nominee for governor, plan to "make Ohio the silicon valley of alternative energy."...

The former president also urged the election of other Ohio Democrats, noting he especially wanted Jennifer Brunner to win the race for secretary of state "to make sure we count the votes," a poke at J. Kenneth Blackwell, current Republican secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate...



Bill Clinton visits Ohio as Democrats hope for election victories

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/15831722.htm

JULIE CARR SMYTH
Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Former President Bill Clinton rallied with Ohio Democrats Monday, pledging that if the party is restored to power on Nov. 7 its leaders will act to reunite the divided state and the country...

"You'll hear if you vote for Democrats they'll tax you all the way to the poor house and, on your way to the poor house, you'll meet a terrorist on every street corner - unless you happen to stumble over an illegal immigrant on your way," he said...

Clinton called on Democrats to reach out to independents and Republicans in the days leading up to the election, reciting a list of candidates converted to the party - including nine Iraqi war veterans, a CIA agent and an FBI agent - who are running as Democrats around the country.

"You should tell people that our founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor not to have a more divided, sanctimonious country ignoring the facts," he said. "They pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor for a more perfect union."...




ON THE NET

Sherrod Brown for U.S. Senate: http://www.sherrodbrown.com /

Mike DeWienie for U.S. Senate: http://www.mikedewienie.com

[Melissa G]

6. Latin America is leaning toward the left

Latin America is leaning toward the left
By Maria Elena Salinas10/24/06 03:48:15


This has certainly been a year of change in Latin America. A dozen elections were scheduled in the region in a 12-month period. Many of them have brought surprising results, some of them worrisome.

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Leaning to the left, however, doesn't necessarily mean going back to the Cold War. That's been over for a while, although some people haven't figured it out yet. The new Latin American left has a much wider range of ideological views, from the revolutionary speech of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales to the more pragmatic approach of Chile's Michelle Bachelet and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

What's at stake is precisely the re-definition of the leftist movements in the region — coming into power through democratic elections and not through force — and trying to establish socialist programs to benefit the poor without relying on anti-imperialist rhetoric. I guess you can call it a modernized version of the Latin American left. Bachelet and Lula are examples of it, as well as Argentina's Nestor Kirchner.

Already this year, voters have rejected two radical leftist candidates. In Peru, Ollanta Humala lost to former president Alan Garcia. And in a hotly contested election, Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lost his bid for a total recount of the votes. He claims fraud and refuses to recognize the winner, Felipe Calderon.

http://www.fresnobee.com/203/story/9200.html

[Melissa G]

8. Pollworkers for Democracy press release

Contact: Felicity Crush 415 868 9576

San Francisco, Wednesday 27 September 2006

NEW NATIONAL “POLLWORKERS FOR DEMOCRACY” CAMPAIGN CALLS ON VOTERS TO "GIVE A DAY FOR DEMOCRACY"

Over 1,000 sign ups in first days

In light of a national pollworker shortage of 500,000 and persistent controversies around polling, citizen action groups have joined forces in a new national “Pollworkers for Democracy” campaign. The nonpartisan effort by Mainstreet Moms (theMMOB.org), Working Assets and VoteTrustUSA launches nationwide today with a call to American voters to “give a day for democracy” by signing up to work the polls. Already 1435 new pollworkers have signed up in early tests.

“It's time to give a day for democracy and sign up to work the polls.” said Megan Matson, of Mainstreet Moms, "The only way our democracy can truly work is by turning concern into action and becoming part of the solution. Helping voters and assisting elections officials is a simple, supportive and paid way to do this."

At present pollworkers are hired, trained and paid by their local election officials to work in their county on Election Day – the average age of a pollworker is 72. Pollworkers for Democracy is recruiting pollworkers to help with the kind of problems seen in recent primaries: thousands of frustrated would-be voters, long delays, and confusion generated by failing voting machine systems. These problems, combined with a recent flurry of lawsuits and a growing stack of government and institutional reports against electronic voting machines have lead to low public confidence in the American electoral system. Pollworkers for Democracy aims to encourage citizens to get informed and get active in response. Visitors to pollworkersfordemocracy.org can pledge to work the polls, look up local officials information, and learn how to apply for pollworker positions. They are further supported with online materials and weekly teleconference calls offering pollworking resources and advice.

"For the first time in a national election, new, computerized equipment will be used in most polling places across the country this year." said Joan Kravitz, Executive Director of VoteTrust USA, "Our goal is to bring citizens into the process to work the polls and to help both new and experienced pollworkers ensure that the November election runs as smoothly as possible for the voters at their polling places."

The Pollworkers for Democracy campaign plans to collect pollworker observations through an online survey. Participants are encouraged to keep an eye out for problems at the polls such as the mishandling of voter registration requirements, delays and errors due to failing electronic voting systems, voter intimidation, and issues surrounding the use and counting of provisional ballots. The campaign will also be looking for reports of well-run precincts and best practices among elections officials. The pollworker survey is linked to a national Election Incident Reporting System supporting informed election reform solutions.

www.pollworkersfordemocracy.org

[Melissa G]

9. The EAC's Proposed Testing and Certification Program...

The EAC's Proposed Testing and Certification Program – Still A Chance For Bold Action?
Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA

The broader community of public interest organizations concerned about the accuracy and integrity of the election process welcomed the announcement in July 2006, that the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) would be proposing a new national system for testing and certifying voting systems for use in Federal elections. The proposed program released for public comment earlier this month reflects some significant improvements over the existing process. However, the overall philosophy expressed in the proposed testing and certification program remains too deferential to the interests of voting equipment manufacturers while inadequately reflecting the interests of the primary stakeholders in the election process – the voters. On the fundamental issues of transparency and public oversight, it is substantially a perpetuation of the current system with new acronyms.

The current regime, under which voting machine manufacturers contract with ‘independent’ testing laboratories that produce secret test reports that inevitably lead to ‘qualification’ by the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), has met with mixed reviews at best. Speaking before Congress in 2004, Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Michael I. Shamos said, "the system we have for testing and certifying voting equipment in this country is not only broken, it is virtually nonexistent." He recommended that "It must be re-created from scratch or we will never restore public confidence in elections."

Among Dr. Shamos’ first recommendations was that the manufacturers should not pay the laboratories that test their equipment, because under this arrangement the manufacturers effectively become the laboratories’ clients and subject to conflicts of interest that raise questions about their ability to effectively safeguard the public interest.

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The credibility of the current process has been further damaged by the severe reliability, security, and accuracy problems revealed in a steady stream of academic and governmental studies and in hundreds of cases of malfunctions in fielded machinery. While we will never know what defects have been uncovered by the current ITA, we know that the ITA did not uncover the vulnerability caused by the presence of interpreted code on Diebold AccuVote OS memory cards revealed in Leon County, Florida, the “upgrade” feature of AccuVote TSx revealed in Emery County, Utah and the viral propagation properties of this feature exploited in the recent Princeton study; the report by Paul Craft that the firmware version on ES&S optical scanners is not verifiable, nor the revelation in an audit in Pinellas County, Florida that an SQL compiler is routinely installed on the Sequoia WinEDS system.

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1922&Itemid=26

[Melissa G]

10. New voting systems, rules may spell trouble at polls

New voting systems, rules may spell trouble at polls
Election analysts expect complications, but some disagree over how widespread they will be in the midterm tally.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writer
October 24, 2006


WASHINGTON — Ambitious efforts to modernize the nation's patchwork voting system were finally supposed to pay big dividends in the 2006 congressional balloting, but instead election day could bring a new round of problems, confusion and partisan rancor.

Unproven electronic voting machines, stricter voter identification requirements in many states, new databases and partisan disputes over registration campaigns are all contributing to the concern. So are the closely divided nature of the American electorate and the rising stakes in this year's voting as Democrats appear poised for major gains.

"The Nov. 7 election promises to bring more of what voters have come to expect since the 2000 elections: a divided body politic, an election system in flux, and the possibility — if not certainty — of problems at polls nationwide," said a report released today by the nonpartisan Election Reform Information Project.

"As the midterm elections approach, machine failures, database delays and foul-ups, inconsistent procedures, new rules and new equipment have some predicting chaos at the polls at worst and widespread polling place snafus at best," said the report, which was funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and is available on the Internet at electionline.org.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-elect24oct24,1,1747895.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true

[Melissa G]

11. Former EAC Commissioners Interviewed on CNN

Thanks to Vote Trust USA for the link..
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1923&Itemid=26

Former EAC Commissioners Interviewed on CNN
By CNN Transcript
October 23, 2006
Two former Election Assistance Commisioners joined Lou Dobbs on October 23, 2006. The transcript of their conversation follows.




Joining me now, two former members of the Election Assistance Commission, an agency set up in response to the Florida debacle in the 2000 election, part of the Help America Vote Act.

First meet Deforest Soaries (pictured at left), he's a Republican, former chair of the Election Assistance Commission.

Good to have you here.

Ray Martinez (pictured at right), Democrat, former vice chair of the commission.

Ray, good to have you with us, all the way from Austin, Texas. Thank you.

Let's begin with a third of -- and if we can show these stats. It's sort of interesting, one third of voters this November will be using new voting equipment. Thirty-eight percent will be using electronic voting equipment.

Deforest, what do you think is going to happen?

DEFOREST SOARIES, FORMER ELECTION COMMISSIONER: Well, I think we're going to have frustration at the polls. Many poll workers will be inadequately prepared for the use of this equipment. And if there's a close race, there will be tremendous frustration because there will be difficulty confirming what the real results were, given the lack of any paper to verify what happened at the polls.


http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1923&Itemid=26

[Melissa G]

12. News Release from the Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota

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Minnesota to make election history again with first-ever post election revi...


News Release from the Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota and League of Women Voters Minnesota

For additional background on the election review law, please visit www.ceimn.org

Media Contacts: Mark Halverson, 612-724-1736, [e-mail] or Kathy Stone, 651-646-3224, [e-mail]

Minnesota to make election history again with first-ever post election review

St. Paul, MN – October 24, 2006 – The accuracy of Minnesota’s e-voting machines will be assessed this fall thanks to a new state law that takes effect with this year’s elections. Races for federal office and the governor’s race will be reviewed to assess the accuracy of e-voting machines.

Numerous problems have been documented nationally with e-voting machines, particularly direct recording electronic (DRE) systems. While Minnesota does not use DREs, the optical scanners that Minnesota uses are subject to many of the same risks for potential programming errors as DREs.

“The post-election review offers the best way to assess the accuracy of our voting machines and help ensure an accurate vote count,” according to Mark Halvorson, director and co-founder of Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota. “The optical scan voting machines used in Minnesota are considered reliable but have never been reviewed to assess their accuracy. The state legislature passed a law to assess the accuracy of the machines.”

The new review law requires a hand count of randomly selected precincts in every county. If the hand count from the review shows a difference greater than 0.5 percent compared to the machine count from election day, further hand counts are required.

Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, along with the League of Women Voters Minnesota, is organizing and training nonpartisan teams of volunteers in every county to observe the review. Minnesota is one of only 13 states to require a review and the only state where a review will be observed. To volunteer as a review observer, contact CEIMN at 800-976-8086 or visit www.ceimn.org .

Other Minnesota election notables:

* Minnesota enacted same-day voter registration in 1974 which opens voting to more residents who may have moved or are voting for the first time.
* Minnesota had the highest citizen voting rate at 79 percent during the 2004 presidential election. (U.S. Census Bureau)
* Minneapolis voters will decide in November whether to adopt Instant Run-Off Voting (IRV). If adopted, Minneapolis will join San Francisco and Vermont in advancing this step toward election reform.

Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to ensuring an accurate vote count. CEIMN educates citizens about our election system, publicizes news about voting technology, encourages citizen participation in the election process and advocates for election reform. For more information visit www.ceimn.org .

The League of Women Voters Minnesota is a multi-issue, grassroots volunteer organization of concerned women and men working together to better understand and influence the issues that affect us, our families, and our future. It is a political, but non-partisan, organization dedicated to researching complex questions from all viewpoints. The League does not support or oppose any political party or candidate. For more information visit www.lwvmn.org .

[Kurovski]

13. Kick to the top.

and thank you, thank you, dear Melissa G!

[Melissa G]

14. Judge Throws Out Fla. Exit Poll Limit

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Judge Throws Out Fla. Exit Poll Limit
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Florida-Exit-Polls.html&OQ=_rQ3D2Q26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=79bfdeceQ2FctKkc4Q2FRVQ51Q2FQ2FjacQ7D-Q2FQ2A_bQ2AKcQ3BVcNgQ25Q3D_Q2FQ51b4Q7DQ25rUbjQ25gQ2F__VQ27qjQ60_

October 24, 2006
Judge Throws Out Fla. Exit Poll Limit
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:45 p.m. ET

MIAMI (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a Florida law that prohibits exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place, finding there was no evidence that such surveys were disruptive or threatened access to voting.

U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck said the law was unconstitutional and ordered state officials not to enforce it in the Nov. 7 election. He left intact the 100-foot limit for other activities such as distributing campaign material or peddling.

..more at link...

[Algorem]

15. thurs.,npr

http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/06/10/26.php#11452

10:00Electronic Voting Machines
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[Algorem]

16. News groups challenge Ohio's revised exit polling directive

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/politics-1/1161707086173850.xml&storylist=cleveland

10/24/2006, 5:45 p.m. ET
By JULIE CARR SMYTH
The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's new guidelines on conducting exit polls on Election Day, written after a judge threw out the old rules, are vague and confusing and should be rejected, a coalition of national news organizations argues in a lawsuit.

In the suit, television networks ABC, CNN, CBS, Fox News and NBC and The Associated Press ask U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson to spell out the rules for county election boards in his own words and force Secretary of State Ken Blackwell to post them so the plaintiffs can interview voters leaving polling places on Nov. 7.

The judge last month had ordered the state to produce a new directive when he struck down Blackwell's 2004 order against exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place. Watson granted a temporary order suspending the 2004 order, allowing exit polling that year.

The lawsuit filed Monday says Blackwell's latest guidelines, issued Oct. 13, begin by stating that loitering and delaying voters are prohibited and only later say that the judge specifically allowed exit polling...