Volusia County (Dirty tricks, machine problems & long lines, suppression of minorities), alleged compiler fraud)

Dirty Tricks

051231 11/03/04, 10:24 AM PST Other Volusia County, Florida. Got sign on door to go vote to another location. Needs help.

Went there and it was the wrong address.

Early Voting/ Long lines

EP Hearing, Jacksonville, Beverly Neal, Florida NAACP, not enough early voting

sites and machines and poll workers; extremely long lines at all sites visited.

Machine Problems & Ballot Counting Issues

001087 08/31/04, 5:31 AM PST Machine problem Volusia County, Florida Optical scanning machines are not working properly in Precincts 219, 532, and 628.

Paper ballots are being accepted in a Emergency Slots. According to election official, these ballots will be counted at the end of the day and will be treated as regular,

not provisional, ballots

030679 11/02/04, 5:58 AM PST Machine problem 1045 Daytona Ave. Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida Machines are down - stuffing ballots in the voting boxes

036624 11/02/04, 9:56 AM PST Machine problem Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida - election precinct in Deland opened one- hour earlier - than it was supposed to - Daytona computer glitch has wiped out the voting list. Paper ballots are being transported back by republicans. they were supposed to be transported by one dem and one republican.. Joe will call back the Deland precinct info

045587 11/02/04, 3:55 PM PST Machine problem; Other ballot-related problem City Island Library, Daytona Beach, Port Orange, Volusia County, Florida Voter thinks that paper ballots have been misplaced. He went several times to vote via early voting, but the lines were too long. (Early voting opened on Octobe4 18.) On October 28, when he finally voted, a security officer told him that 20,000 to 25,000 individuals had voted. At his precinct, voting is by paper ballot, but computerized systems are used for 2 other purposes: (1) determining that each voter is eligible to vote, and (2) tabulating the votes. When he was at the precinct, the computers went down. He inferred that meant that the precinct no longer had a running tally of the number of voters. When it was his turn to vote, his eligibility was verified by a phone call, not the computer system. That evening, on the local CBS television affiliate (channel 6), it was reported that the computerized ballot scanner [which tabulated ballot] had broken, and that a memory chip in the ballot scanner had to be replaced. The station went on to report that 13,000 ballots were rescanned. The caller thought it should have taken more time to rescan 13,000 ballots -- more like 36 hours -- and that it could not have been done as quickly as it was reported to have happened. He also was troubled by the discrepancy between the 20,000 - 25,000 voters the security guard reported, and the 13,000 ballots the TV station reported.

051489 11/03/04, 12:22 PM PST Machine problem; Other ballot-related problem Volusia County, Florida tv local channel 6 reporting that 11,000 votes were lost in an African American Community due to a computer system failure.

060753 12/31/04, 7:59 AM PST Machine problem Volusia County, Florida According to http://www.wftv.com/news/3879449/detail.html a "computer chip" is responsible for "some voter problems." A replacement chip was installed and ballots were re-fed.

Improper Purges

EP Hearing, Jacksonville, Beverly Neal, Florida NAACPEx-felons are not having their papers processed in a timely way to restore there rights. There is a huge backlog of unprocessed cases. Ex-felons are also not being given the information they need by Dept. of corrections to facilitate their getting their rights restored.

Alleged Voter Intimidation and Voter Suppression in Minority Precincts

031153 11/02/04, 6:45 AM PST Voter Intimidation; Machine problem; Long lines city Island, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida Caller lives in Daytona Beach in Volusia County. Caller and grandson a first-time voter, voted early this weekend at City Island. They report the following: 1) Many African-Americans were present in line, particularly from Bethune Cookman College. Bethune had put buses together to get students to the polls. 2) At least 3 police officers were present at the polling place. One was a deputy sheriff. One was a correctional officer. The correctional officer was huge, at least 6'3" and imposing. The officer, for whatever reason, was blocking the line. When the line entered the polling place, the officer would stand at the door way and block people from entering. He was holding people who were affiliated w/Kerry from entering the polling place, at least for 5 minutes. Eventually, Kerry voters were allowed inside. The CO was "approving" toward those voters openly affiliated with Bush. The police presence was confusing and intimidating the voters, including Grandson. One woman who was a Kerry voter was blocked by the CO -- he actually held his hands and arms out to block her and then when she stopped, he turned his back to her to block her further. 3) When voters, excluding Grandson, finally got to vote -- there were massive "glitches." Grandson was told that the phone lines were experiencing trouble and that not all lines got a connection. Voters could not vote electronically, apparently. They voted manually. However, for each person who showed up to vote, they had to verify by phone that the voter could vote. Once they were "verified", they could vote. 4) Caller's family wonders whether their vote will even count. For reasons that apparently have been noted in the news, but not explained, the county is recounting these votes. No one has said why or what has happened. Caller's family wonders why wasn't early vote simply shout down? At least they could have voted today. 5) Caller noticed while waiting 1 1/2 hours for her grandson that Deputy Sheriff was effectively preventing Kerry workers from working. Pulled up and parked a huge truck next to them and obscured Kerry workers from voters. Bush workers then put a large Bush sign in the window of the truck. 6) One of the officers present was a female police officer who was apparently guiding or moving the line. When the line moved in a shady area, the police officer restructured the line in Caller' view to purposely make people wait outside polling place and in the sun. She (Caller) suspects that she was trying to make people uncomfortable enough so that they wouldn't vote. 7) Spoke with EP lawyer and was advised to have the Caller fax a statement. The Caller agreed. The fax will be directed to Lawyer's attention and more.

044377 11/02/04, 2:45 PM PST Absentee-ballot related problem Port Orange, Cuyahoga County, Florida Caller registered to vote around August 20, 2004 via mail; requested absentee ballot at same time as registration; caller never received ballot and re-requested absentee ballot at sign-up on campus registration drive in October 2004; caller attends Bethune Cooken College; caller received voter registration card at OH address but never received absentee ballot;

053405 11/05/04, 11:14 AM PST Voter Intimidation; Identification-related problem Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida Woman went to vote with her voter registration id and photo id. They could not find her on the rolls. she had voted in the primary so she insisted they continue to look since she have voted in the same precinct. She forced them to look up her registration # and when they did, she came up. she said her id began with FB for Black Female. They told her she could only vote by provisional ballot. She is concerned.

053479 11/05/04, 12:01 PM PST Voter Intimidation Central Baptist, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida Poll worker gave her and other voters affidavits to take to poll where she was supposed to vote. Wrote N on her affidavit. She asked what that was for, he said "Nigra." Voted in precinct 614. Caller knows poll worker's name.

Statistical Study showing apparent lost votes and misvotes: http://www.flcv.com/fla04EAS.html

Volusia County. Bev Harris alleges audit discrepancies, such as precinct-based Election Day results that differ from last week's final tally, and plans to inspect ballots from as many as 50 precincts http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3898

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-22.htm

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

Volusia County. Memory-card breakdowns in six machines left political contests in limbo for hours. The county had the memory cards inspected by Diebold this summer in preparation for the busy election season. Ion Sancho, the elections supervisor in Leon County, said officials with Diebold told him that the new, higher-capacity memory cards tend to have more glitches than older cards http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3694

Volusia County. A computer error caused a failure of the memory card which stores vote data. 13,000 ballots must be rescanned. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3615