February 8, 2008: Task Force Dismisses Contest of 2006 Election
Washington, DC - This morning, the Committee on House Administration's Election Task Force unanimously passed a motion to dismiss the contest of the 2006 election in Florida's 13th Congressional District. The Task Force arrived at the decision after the Government Accountability Office presented a final report that outlined the results of their own independent testing of the voting machines used in Sarasota County. Their testing, conducted between November 27, 2007 and December 4, 2007, concluded with reasonable assurance that that the voting machines did not contribute to the large under vote.

The Committees dismissal (obviously with Pelosi's approval) is a sad, almost pathetic, abrogation of their oath of office.

Specifically:

It simply does not pass the smell test that 18,000 voters in heavily Democratic precincts just didn't vote on the most hotly contested race on their ballot.

The investigators never got to take the software out and check it.

The chain of custody for the software and machines was compromised.

Only 115 out of 1499 machines were tested, and there are no assurances that those machines did not all come from the Republican precincts that did not experience the missing vote problem.

Not much more to say. Just a raw deal for the 18,000 voters whose votes will never count.

Brad, I'm posting this here. Hope you get it.
http://www.progressohio....ost/brianrothenberg/C3c7