Voters disenfranchised in Los Angeles

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "r.t." <rickt () rickt org>
Date: June 7, 2006 12:20:00 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: Voters disenfranchised in Los Angeles

Dave, just to add a little extra context to this post...

A number of my friends (6) were seemingly removed from the voter  
rolls in L.A. County, CA. They were unable to vote last night because  
of this. Election officials were rude and not helpful in the  
slightest. All 6 of my friends are politically active, and did vote  
in the previous two elections. All have not moved their primary  
residences since the last election (where they did receive  
information about the election via US mail prior to the previous  
elections -- while none of them did this time around), none of them  
are felons, and all always vote. It is my understanding that what  
happened to them is not lawful?

We also discovered that the www.LAVOTE.net website, which gives  
directions to polling stations (among other things) would not  
recognise *any* street address at all, and thus no polling station  
location or direction data was able to be found. The site did not  
error out at all, it simply just said nothing when addresses were  
input (I have screenshots of this). The site became usable and  
started outputting correct data some 3 hours after the polling  
stations had closed.

The "Report-A-Problem" telephone number was also busy throughout the  
evening, and when we were able to finally get through, the voice  
mailbox was full.

I leave it up to the fine readership of IP to draw their own  
conclusions, at least until someone finds out what happened.

Thanks,
Rick Tait, Los Angeles.


On Jun 7, 2006, at 8:56 AM, David Farber wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Lynn <lynn () ecgincc com>
> Date: June 7, 2006 10:15:19 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: elections
>
> A clip from CNN regarding the integrity of US elections.
>
> In the town I live, these machines were used for the first time  
> yesterday.
> As soon as the polls opened, there were problems with people not being
> able to vote due to machine problems.
>
> Lynn



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