Election Day

Mecklenburg Co.''s Voting Machine Malfunctions in May and November 2006

Submitted by NCVoter on Wed, 02/21/2007 - 12:07am

Mecklenburg County's election department sent me their trouble reports for the May primary and November General Election.

The report lists the many different problems with the touch-screens and their tempermental thermal printers, printers that often jammed or failed.

The NC Coalition for Verified Voting predicted these problems in advance and had urged all NC counties to purchase the tried and true optical scan systems and not the touch-screen machines. (See www.ncvoter.net )

23 of our NC counties use the ES&S iVotronic RTAL touch-screens.
The other 77 use the more mature and lower tech optical scan voting machines.

(Mecklenburg is the county that had 10 touch-screen machines with no voter verified paper printouts in the May, 2006 primary.)

Asheville Drinking Liberally's Election Night Throwdown!!!

Submitted by syntax on Fri, 11/03/2006 - 12:27pm

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Attention all Asheville/WNC residents - come join us after the polls close this coming Tuesday for Asheville Drinking Liberally's Election Night Throwdown! Live returns, Wi-Fi command center, quality microbrew & tasty snacks, music by DJ Swiftboat... come on out and help us nail the coffin shut on this election season. Either in celebration or in mourning, we're ALL gonna need a drink or two. Arrange for a ride home, take Wednesday off, and throw down with us @ the Asheville Brewing Company! (77 Coxe Ave., Downtown Asheville)