Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Mercer Co New Jersey election officials have found that 5% of their Sequoia Advantage Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines reported the incorrect post election data. Vote totals were properly reported (as well as anyone can tell from a DRE) but party totals were incorrect on 30 of the county’s 600 machines. This is the same problem reported by five other counties in the state all with regards to results of the “Super Tuesday” primary. Though the vote totals may have been correct every machine attributed one Democratic vote as being a Republican vote. Naturally the Sequoia spokeswoman, Michelle Shafer, did all she could to minimize the problem while misinforming the public that all votes were counted properly, a fact that she cannot know. Finally some county officials are beginning to get uneasy about these machines. It’s about time….
- NAtional: Precinct Hiccups Blamed on Poor Training
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gN_8Cyxcm5HjEt5GwsbJ63Ue1bhAD8V058QO0 - CA: State official says few delays resulted from ballot decision
http://www.contracostatimes.com/politics/ci_8345102 - CO: Clerks hold out hope for optical scanner
http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2008/02/23/news/doc47bfc407b9df1876683364.txt - CT: Good Bye Manual Recounts – No Paper No Problem
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=157 - IN: Delaware County Election Board investigates ballot difference
For unknown reasons, a ballot count certified by the election board after the November election and a ballot count certified by the recount commission in December are different.
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/NEWS01/802230358/1002 - IN: County may cut polling sites
Tight budget prompts move, but result may be smoother election
http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/NEWS01/802230313/1002 - NC: Some counties to open additional early voting sites
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354722162&path=!localnews&s=1037645509099 - NJ: Mercer County – County finds vote errors
Discrepancies discovered in 5% of machines
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1203743162158020.xml&coll=5 - NY: Chautauqua County – N.Y. set to order voting machines
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/NEWS01/802230328/1001 - OH: Five Things to Keep an Eye on in Ohio
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/77540/ - OH: Supreme Court to decide on paper ballots
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/02/22/union_county.html - PA: Bucks County Pennsylvania is Clueless
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_james_st_080223_bucks_county_pennsyl.htm - TN: States may get voting-machine money
Official says federal pool may be used to replace touch screens
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/NEWS0206/802230348 - VA: Chesterfield County – Chesterfield’s election count OK, officials say
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/politics.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-02-23-0149.html
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John sedd:
Isn’t 95% an “A” John?
American flag waived, Amurkan flag waved ??
5% = 1000%
95% =1000%
d math
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that’s what I meant by d math (I wasn’t just rambling)
I know Phil and John,
every vote must count = 100%
Anybody like to hazard a guess as to how many machines are in operation on the day of a general election?
1 vote per machine could easily be an extra MILLION votes to pad the popular vote total for the theiving, criminal, corrupt, immoral Rethuglicans.
They will be working to steal this election in November in THOUSANDS of ways all at once. Any way that can give them 1 million overall votes is a DEFINITE KEEPER for them. Six or seven more ways (5 million by lack of machines in poor or black or working class neighborhoods); three or four million by phone jamming; five or ten million by forcing newly registered young voters to provisional ballots because their registrations went missing between primary and general election; IT ALL ADDS UP!