Guest blogged by Winter Patriot
Our busy friends at The RAW STORY have some big things happening today. Here’s an excerpt from one of them [slightly edited], by Miriam Raftery:
Frye, who served three years as a council woman in San Diego, California, previously ran as a write-in candidate in November 2004, but was deprived of San Diego’s top seat due to the city’s Registrar of Voters, Sally McPherson, blocking the count of 5,547 ballots on which voters had written Frye’s name, yet failed to also fill in bubbles. The disputed ballots would have given Frye a victory by 3,439 votes.
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A team of statisticians from California State University- Northridge – have analyzed the data, concluding that the probability of luck or chance as the cause of the observed deviation is less than one in 1,300 – or .000678.
Activists suspect fraud. “I am troubled by the prospect that we are losing our democracy very quickly. We’ve been voting on machines that were never intended to be tools of democracy,” said Brina-Rae Schuchman, noting that Diebold machines utilize “secret software.”
There’s much more where that came from. Please read the entire article: Exclusive: Citizens Request Recount in San Diego Mayoral Race.
GO DIEBOLD and TRIAD…
TO JAIL WITH THE bushit administration!!!
These Slimmy Scum of the earth Bastard’s should never (as in NE-VER) be allowed to run their machines in another election .
This sounds like a major step forward. But I wonder what signifigance there is to the proposition election being affected by the same margin. Does that strengthen the case for tampering or for some sort of bias in voter participation?
Also, they say that the possiblity of the 4 percent variation ocurring by chance is very low, but what about the possibility of it ocurring because of bias in voter participation?
One thing I can say for sure – I will be happy to sign such logs after voting, if it is a way of increasing the chance of having honest elections.
Is there no way she can go to court to have the "official results" overturned? That’s what we need in all these cases, an arbiter to handle disputes, even this long after an election. If they can simply say too much time has passed, then they’ll always get away with it by delaying justice.
They were caught red handed Brad, Winter, All.
It’s time to recount all the votes in CA and arrest the fraud players.
Doug
Why don’t we use ATM machines in our elections?
Banks are generally very strict about money going in and out! ATMs give you receipts assuming you want one!
Bring on the ATMs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jerry #5
Yep. Its all about what we treasure. The ATM scenario proves we value cash … and I suppose that is ok …
IF …
we value freedom and democracy more than cash …
and prove it by having voting machines that have a default security level that surpasses the cash ATM scenario …
But the fact is that Diebold and those who run elections do not value freedom and democracy above cash because the voting machines are loose as a goose … they treat cash the way the Pentagon does in Iraq … "loose ten or so billion … so what?"
Yea … the neoCon tribe needs to be put to sleep …
and only the rest of us need to awake in the morning.