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Although the Sequoia electronic machines were used in 18 of the state’s largest counties and in many states across the country Tuesday, Gilmore said the only “glitch” reported to the company he was aware of was the one involving the Lakewood and Barnegat vote totals.
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But Lakewood Rabbi Yisroel Schenkolewski, a Republican commissioner on the board, wants the version of the software used this year fixed if it is found to be to blame for the double counting of the Barnegat votes.
During the probe that led to the recheck request, he said the Election Board staff found that municipal clerks could have accessed the results before they were processed by the Board of Elections.
“That part scares me more than the first part,” he said.
We wonder if he’s equally scared — or has even been made aware by the Sequoia Voting Systems people — that the Sequoia Advantage touch-screen system his county uses is the same machine shown at the beginning of the HBO Hacking Democracy documentary to be flipping vote after vote from a Republican candidate to a Democratic candidate.
Or if he’s concerned that Sequoia’s other touch-screen model, the “Edge”, gives voters the “edge” by offering the opportunity to vote as many times as they want, over and over again, just by pressing “the yellow button” as The BRAD BLOG revealed during the week prior to the election.
We wonder what else Sequoia has failed to inform the Ocean County Board of Elections about concerning their crappy voting systems.
Gilmore said he expects recounts in all five communities. In addition to Barnegat they are Tuckerton, Seaside Park, South Toms River, and Lavallette.
commissioner Schenkolewski you have this completely backwards–
“During the probe that led to the recheck request, he said the Election Board staff found that municipal clerks could have accessed the results before they were processed by the Board of Elections.
‘That part scares me more than the first part,’ he said”
Decentralization is key to democracy. Results should be posted in each precinct PRIOR to being sent to the county and then the state elections department. Precinct totals and the State total and breakdowns should then be crosschecked.
Write all of these e-vote errors to your local newspaper’s mailbag. I did today. Because they are shoving down our throats, that there were no problems with electronic vote machines.
Yeay, we won. However with the voting machines and voter suppression we did not get a veto proof majority. At least the first line of business will be war profiteering Oversight hearings. We as a people have much to accomplish these next two years, and the hounds of hell will be nipping at our feet all the way to 2008. Long before we can close the drapes on this chapter in our history.
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