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"The future of democracy in North Carolina
will hinge on a paper wad fight..."
2008 Primary Election May 6th
We are looking for people who have received the illegal robo calls made by "Women's Voices, Women's Vote" (WVWV) These calls often used the voice of a "Lamont Williams". If you received such a call, please report it at 1-888-OUR VOTE at Democracy For NC's Office.
You may be able to recover damages from WVWV
According to a press release from the NC Attorney General's office - " The robo-calls told residents that they would be receiving a voter registration form in the mail that they needed to sign. But the deadline to register by mail has passed, and some call recipients already were registered, causing confusion...these robocalls appear to have been made in violation of N.C.G.S. § 75-104. Failure to comply with this statute subjects the offender to civil penalties of up to $5,000 per violation, and individuals who receive these unlawful calls may separately recover statutory damages in the same amounts. N.C.G.S. § 75-105."
An estimated 182,236 illegal robo calls have been made in North Carolina.
Do not trust robo calls telling you whether you can or should vote or where to vote. Verify. Voters without internet access should call their County Boards of Elections to find out if they are registered. For reliable voting information, go to the North Carolina State Board of Elections website to check your voter registration and polling place location. You can also get up to date election night reporting at the NC SBOE site .
North Carolina is one of 11 states targeted with misleading voter registration information. Chris Kromm Facing South ...The NAACP has filed a formal complaint. N.C. residents have reported receiving peculiar automated calls from someone claiming to be "Lamont Williams." The caller says that a "voter registration packet" is coming in the mail, and the recipient can sign it and mail it back to be registered to vote and then they can vote....Read more at the link But they seem to be targeting primarily African American voters, male and female
Women's Voices has been conducting a robo-call and mailing campaign in NC that the state Attorney General has confirmed is illegal, that has been secretive and deceptive, and will likely have the effect of confusing and discouraging North Carolina voters.....Women's Voices is made up of some of the most seasoned and sophisticated political operatives in Washington." "Facing South" also revealed that North Carolina wasn't an isolated incident; that Women's Voices had been charged with carrying out confusing, legally questionable, and deceptive voter registration tactics in 10 other states. It has since been reported that there were also concerns in Oregon.
Voting in a touchscreen county? If your voting machine breaks down or won't operate properly, ask for a different machine and urge that the malfunctioning machine to be taken out of service. "Verify" your vote on the "paper trail" on the left of the screen.
About us: The North Carolina Coalition for Verified Voting is a grassroots non-partisan organization fighting for clean and verified elections.The NC Voter Verified Coalition has consistently fought for increasing access, participation and ensuring the voter franchise.
Contact Joyce McCloy, Coordinator, N.C. Coalition for Verifiable Voting -
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NC Verified Voting Legislative Successes
SL 2005-323 Public Confidence in Elections Law - signed into law on August 26, 2005 - voter verified paper ballots.
SL 2006-192 NC Election audit language improved. See SECTION 7.(b) G.S. 163‑182.2(b) signed into law on August 3, 2006.
S.L. 2007-391 Eliminates the "No Match No Vote" policy in North Carolina that blocked thousands of eligible voters from registering to vote. Signed into law on 08/19/2007. See "Making sure it counts" in the Aug 29,07 issue of the Washington Daily News.
Wise words: "Every voting system (perhaps every system of any kind) is insecure. Making them more secure is a desirable secondary priority, but unless we focus everyone on ensuring both auditability and effective auditing, we're just going to create an impossible muddle." ~ Dr. David L. Dill, Founder of the Verified Voting Foundation .
NC recognized by The Brennan Center for Justice. In an Aug 1, 2007 press release about national election integrity the Brennan Center says: "Only one state, North Carolina, has collected and made public the most significant data from post-election audits for the purpose of improving future elections." See NCVoter's page with more about NC's audits
Recent
North Carolina voting news here
*Its not like we didn't warn you . We lobbied County Commissioners, Boards of Elections, County Managers, and asked you to lobby your political parties. We wrote the media.
Hand Counted Paper Ballots - What They Look Like Hand Counted Paper Ballots - an Informational Journal. There are many folks that wish Hand Counted Paper Ballots were a reality in the US....Many of these same folks have never seen a hand counted paper ballot, but they often will tell you about how Canada counts all of their ballots in about 3 hours....
FL: Sarasota County - 1st report - Mechanical Glitch Ignored In Now Contested Florida Congressional Race. First reporting of the ES&S "smoothing filter" bug memo (Legal team found warning memo at www.NCVoter.net )
FL: Sarasota County - Voting machine maker warned of 'issue' . Herald Tribune gets it!
John Washburn, a software tester in Germantown, Wisconsin writes how the "Smoothing Filter" defect could have caused the undervote observed in the FL CD-13 and other races in Florida.
NC: Printers Fail on Touch-screens - 9% Failure Rate in the Nov 2006 General Election: "The system meant to produce a paper backup of votes cast on Guilford County’s electronic voting machines failed in many cases during the election Nov. 7. .. "He (Gilbert)knew that there would be problems,"said Joyce McCloy,a voting advocate who has been critical of Gilbert on the paper record issue."He asked his county to buy these machines when he himself testified to the state that there would be problems with the paper backups.
Kissell concedes defeat
News 14 Carolina, NC - CHARLOTTE - With defeat appearing inevitable, Larry Kissell conceded Wednesday to GOP Rep. Robin Hayes in the state's 8th Congressional District, ending one of the nation's last unresolved races for a seat in the U.S. House. 5 of the remaining counties had not done a recount yet...... Kissell trailed Hayes by just 329 votes out of 121,523 cast following a machine recount last week..
• NC 08 Recount Seems Likely, Details and Deadlines, How You Can Help
• Oct 21 2006 NCVV Responds to NYT "New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes"
• Oct 20 2006 Elections: Report On North Carolina's Audit of Primary
• How North Carolina's Elections Will Be Audited
• National: On Nov 7, Will Your Voting Machines Count Backwards?
-Sept 29, 2006 NCVV presents the Elections Lemon award to Maryland for continual flubs
June 22, 2006: Common Cause report designates North Carolina Elections at low risk. NC is also 1 of the 13 states in the entire country that requires hand to eye audits. Report says that the push to use direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines was misguided.
• INTERNET VOTING IN THE 08 PRIMARY AND DISFUNCTIONAL DNC VOTING RIGHTS COMMITTEE
• Poll Workers - Frontline Election Protection and Who Can Observe Voting?
• Protecting Voters - From Illegal Disenfranchisement Tactics
• Are You Registered to Vote? Deadline October 13
Lenoir-Touchscreens-Paper Ballots-Fate of 10th District GOP Primary
June 27, 2006: The Brennan Center Task Force on Voting System Security, just issued a report citing at least 120 security issues with voting machines made by the top 3 largest voting machine companies. The full Brennan report is here and executive summary here .
05/03/2006 First Time Rollout of Voting Machine Successful, Few Problems ** AP News -
*Wake rejects touch-screen voting* February 13 News and Observer"Why spend extra money for a dubious and experimental technology?" said Andrew Silver, 64, a Cary epidemiologist... Commissioner Phil Jeffreys, a retired postal worker, said he was not concerned about the difficult of hand-sorting an estimated 90,000 ballots after next fall's Election Day... "I worked in a post office for 30 years and it's not a lot (to sort)," he said.
12/22/05 Diebold withdraws from North Carolina's voting machine RFP! Diebold Says can't turn over all third party software...like their operating system (see below) and other requirements. Article
But they did escrow their operating system in Georgia...
Diebold list of operating system in escrow with state of Georgia:
12.22/2005 VoteTrustUSA:
In a surprising reversal, Diebold has notified the North Carolina State Board of Elections that they are withdrawing from the procurement process in the state. They also offered their assistance in "revising" the state's recently passed election laws to better suit their product. Article
20% Failure of Diebold TSX in California in July 2005 caused officials to say that: the testing performed during the federal qualification process is apparently inadequate to ensure that voting machines will be reliable enough for use in elections. " Included 2% loss of paper ballots. SOS Report
Previous headlines regarding Diebold and also the Certification process, including former Diebold employee's part here Diebold News
Why is the testing and review of source code so important? Voting Systems expert believes that "10 percent of systems are failing on Election Day." - 12/05/2005 article
Carteret County chooses optical scan and ballot marking devices for the disabled. story
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