Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“Voting machines are different from other things bought by a government. In purchasing voting equipment, election officials must rely heavily on the integrity, honesty and reliability of the vendor selling them this equipment.”–Gary Greenhalgh, VP ES&S. The same Gary Greenhalgh who was President of the Election Center and worked for convicted felon Ransom Shoup of Shouptronic fame and with MicroVote, another voting machine company with a checkered past. / “The 2006 election was a success: Most of the millions of Americans who cast their ballots did so with confidence. Despite some isolated problems, exit polls showed that in 98 percent of U.S. jurisdictions, the process worked so well that voter confidence rose to levels not seen since before Election 2000.” This according to EAC Commissioner and Chief Blower of Smoke, Paul DeGregorio….
3-term county clerk elects to leave office on her own terms LINK
Election report faults county clerk, technology firm LINK
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Fried chips: Cosmic rays put new-generation microcircuits to the test.
On May 18 2003, officials overseeing an election in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels, got a shock. An electronic vote-counting machine declared that 4,096 more people had cast their vote than the ballot slips testified. The machine had been thoroughly tested and deemed perfect. So what went wrong?
The answer was, literally, a strike from the heavens.
Technicians pointed the finger of blame at cosmic rays — particles that zip across the cosmos at huge speed and, while rightly ignored by humans as a health concern, can wreak havoc with highly sensitive microelectronic circuits.
http://www.physorg.com/news87194318.html
mick
Wow! I wish those cosmic rays would deposit $4,096 in my bank account!
I actually find that to be a more reasonable explanation then about 90% of the crap we’re supposed to believe. 4096 is a number that would be likely to pop up in a computer.