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Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections?

Posted by timothy on from the today's-the-day dept.

First time accepted submitter yincrash writes "Today I've been looking up information on local elections and have found it virtually impossible to determine information on judicial elections, both with regards to information on the candidate, and what makes a good judge. Is there a good way to find information on these candidates? chooseyourjudges.org seems to agree that this is basically an impossible task. What do slashdotters do in an information vacuum? Just abstain from voting? Write-in something in protest?"

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  1. Why are we not disscussion the Ohio 'software'?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see firehose has stories on the Ohio voting Software installed 4 days before the election, but I notice those stories keep getting voted down. Or flagged with misleading comments.

    Why is the installation of uncertified software on county tabulators in Ohio 4 days before an election not big news?? I have a lot to say /rant on the subject!

    Ohio had provable voter fraud in the Republican Primaries:
    http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/2012/10/rigged-elections-for-romney/

    That was detected in August. The contract for this system (called EXP) was signed in September. The software installed 4 days before an election.
    It is claimed as *test* software, but will be installed on *live* machines used in the election.
    It has not been certified. EXP was not discussed at June meeting of voting machine examiners, it is new software:

    http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/mediaCenter/2012/2012-06-11.aspx

    These are the same tabulators that showed the detected signs of voter fraud.

    http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/stolen-election-2004-plus-the-voter-fraud-scam-series/wisconsin-no-tabulator-versus-tabulator-counties/

    The man in charge of the Ohio elections, Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, also introduced some last minute vote suppression directives. This one makes provision ballots invalid if you haven't filled in an extra form correctly. But Ohio law makes the *polling*staff* the one to fill in that form not you.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/ohios-provisional-ballot-order-the-biggest-legal-story-of-the-weekend/264498/

    Jon Husted had previously set shorter early voting limits, that was blocked by the courts and so he defied the court:

    http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-861538

    He fired two Election officials who complied with the court order, and ultimately set short days on the weekend as partial compliance, so Sunday it's open 1pm to 5pm.

    http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/judge-jon-husted-can-fire-ohio-elections-officials

    Early voters show a strong bias to Obama (57% to 38%) which is why he's so keen to block them from voting.

    http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=9fe706c7-86ef-4698-b0d3-15ec2d79d203

    Bad software, bad actor, proved fraud in the Primaries, a bunch of last minute rule changes with a political bias. Why are we not discussing this?