Yes, we’re as tired of writing about it as you likely are of reading about it. But as run-off elections proceed (Arkansas’s is tomorrow), touch-screen votes are still flipping from one candidate to the other on ES&S’s touch-screen machines during early voting. (ES&S made the touch-screen machines in FL-13, btw.)
Heber Springs, Arkansas, mayoral run-off candidate Jackie McPherson began to suspect problems when both his mother-in-law and her mom told him their attempted vote for him flipped over to McPherson’s opponent during early voting. He went to the Cleburne County Clerk’s office to test the problem for himself — in front of the County Clerk, who at first told him it was not possible — and then they were both able to watch the vote flip about 20 times in a row.
McPherson says the head of the local Elections Commission then told him “the election would have to go on,” and that he “would have to get a court order to review the machines and the problem that obviously exists.”
Neato, huh?
Key grafs fom McPherson’s description of his vote-flipping adventure at the County Clerk’s office are below. The Sun-Times full coverage is here…
And the beat goes on…
“I pointed out that my finger was clearly in my voting box but yet the vote went to Paul. I pointed out there was daylight above my finger, between my finger and the box for Paul, but the vote went to him. Each time we went through the process I moved my finger down the screen, into my box more each time. Votes started showing for me nearly at the bottom of my voting box. She recalibrated the machine and it worked, but how many people cast votes for me and didn’t realize the problem when they finalized their vote?”
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McPherson contacted Election Commissioner Joe Tournear Tuesday evening. “He said the election would have to go on and I would have to get a court order to review the machines and the problem that obviously exists,” McPherson said.
” Mayoral Candidate’s Own Votes Repeatedly Flipped ”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Okay with that said. That is funny.
But the EAC is an UNCONSTITUTIONAL Commission.
Dear Mayor,
ELECTRONICS CAN NOT BE VALIDATED.
SOMEONES RIGHT TO VOTE WAS DENIED!
INSTEAD OF GETTING A COURT ORDER TO REVIEW THE ETHERS.
GET AN INDICTEMENT OF BREAKING THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST ES&S.
OTHERWISE FUCK YOU!
Sincerely
~phil (from Sacramento)
I’ll tell ya what kind of vote-flipping that I’d like to see…it is this: a raised middle finger for any Repugnantlican/Democrass vote, that’s what!
Would somebody please video vote flipping so it can be posted on YouTube? That is about the only way anybody is going to believe the truth about these machines. And the only way it is going to stop it is to litigate against the companies in a product liability case. Money will have to do the talking since “justice” doesn’t seem to catch anybody’s attention. Sort of like in the OJ Simpson case, don’t you think?
I still want to know, what assurance do we have that every time this vote flips, it isn’t being counted regardless of whether or not the voter approves it? There is no way to know that in the example, every one of those flipped voted were counted by the machine.
There’s a good videotaped example of vote flipping happening to a REPUBLICAN candidate in the documentary ‘Hacking Democracy’. I think that’s perfect because it being discovered by a Repub removes the ‘liberal, partisan’ percieved bias. That’s the biggest hurdle I have in trying to educate folks I know about this issue. They think it’s a liberal tin-foil-hat thing rather than the non-partisan plain electorial problem that affects all voters regardless of affiliation.
amazing.. “hey, voter guy.. your machine is broke”.. “yeah.. I know, but that doesn’t matter.. my job isn’t to make sure the election ‘works’, just to make sure people have a place to stand in line for no apparent reason on election day”..
wow.. only in Amerikkka! Welcome to the U.S.S.A. folks.. where your vote is a delusion!