Reports of votes flipping on the 100% unverifiable ES&S iVotronic touch-screen voting machines used in Carroll County, Arkansas, have led to a call for removal of the machines. Who could have predicted it?
This report is somewhat unique in that it comes from a candidate for County Clerk who has called for the removal of the machines, and is reportedly supported by affidavits from a Circuit Court Judge and one of his employees who both reported their votes flipping from the County Clerk candidate to his opponent during early voting on two separate days…
From today’s Carroll County News…
As of Monday, no action had been taken on that request.
In his petition, Kendrick claims two early voters using an electronic voting machine at the clerk’s office in Berryville intended to vote for him when the vote went to his opponent, incumbent County Clerk Jamie Correia.
Those voters, according to affidavits attached to the request, were Circuit Court Judge Gerald Kent Crow and one of his employees, Nadine Holland.
Both stated their votes for Kendrick initially went to Correia, and both said they were able to correct their vote after reviewing their choices.
According to the affidavits, Crow voted May 4, and Holland on Thursday, May 13. Her vote took place late in the day, after 4 p.m., election workers say.
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Kendrick, in his civil filing that names Correia and members of the Carroll County Election Commission, claims there was machine tampering “as to cause the machine to mis-record the actual votes cast.”
Amusingly, election officials in the county are still in denial, and still telling media that there is nothing to worry about — while failing to tell the same media that there is absolutely no way to know, and no evidence to prove, that any vote ever cast on an ES&S iVotronic touch-screen machine (or any Direct Recording Electronic machine, made by any vendor), during any election for any candidate or initiative on the ballot, has ever been recorded accurately as per any voter’s intent…
That is, of course, nonsense. There are no more effective “fail-safe systems” in place on such machines than there are for “blowout preventers” on deep water oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. County Clerks and other election officials who still force voters to vote on such systems, given all that we now know about these 100% faith-based machines, should be ashamed of themselves.
UPDATE: An additional report from the Harrison Daily Times explains why Kendrick was unable to get court action on his request for a temporary restraining order to discontinue use of the ES&S touch-screen systems in his small county in Northern Arkansas:
Kendrick said he didn’t know how else to get action on Monday, the final day of early voting, but he was going to call the secretary of state, who is in charge of elections at the state level.
hey Brad, was wondering if ES&S have many of these flippers in PA?
On Rachel M. just now I hear he is at 59%??!!
Granted it is way early, but if the forces of evil are gonna swing any race tonight with f’d up electronic vote stealing chicanery, i’m sure godd ol Magic Bullet Arlen is first in line.
he being Specter, sorry, typing while surfing
Camus –
Yes, plenty of “flippers” in PA. Please see my backgrounder on all the major races, and their voting systems from last night for details.
Beyond that, those numbers Maddow gave are way way way early at the moment. Like 4%. So ignore for the moment.
yes, of course I was jumping the gun….Arlen now going down 52-48 with almost 50% in.
In Montgomery County, PA today my mom said that when she went to vote in the Democratic primary for one of the down-ticket races, one of the Republican candidate’s names had already been put into the “write in” box without her doing anything.
Ross Levin –
Did she report that to poll workers? The county?
Feel free to email me privately with more specific details if you wish.
The situation in Carroll County is insane, but the real insanity is that the FBI hasn’t sent in a task force to seize all the election equipment and begin to interview everybody involved. Given that denying the right to vote (or switching one) is a Federal Crime, they clearly have the power.
But, of course, that would require the Justice Department to acknowledge that the electoral system throughout this country is totally broken, and they would never do that.
Given that the Democrats have the power to do this and are chosing NOT to, they deserve everything that happens to them in November of 2010 and in 2012. They COULD have fixed it, and chose to ignore it.
Sigh. This will never friggin’ end, will it? Fucking machines.
Where can I find the numbers? How many votes for each candidate? I see plenty of opinions, plenty of tea-party this and tea-party that, but no numbers on the major sites. How can I make up my own mind about what actually happened with nothing but a regurgitated narrative that’s been playing all month?
Right, JimCT! There are none. We don’t even get fake numbers, anymore. Just percentages and spin.
Feels like every election we lose more and more oversight, the races are called earlier and earlier, and no one thinks twice about the glaring impossibility of more votes than voters and more voters than votes.
Soon they’re going to call these races before they even start. A selected news highlight of
your neighbor’s opinion will seal the deal.
You’ll be able to win an election based on an anchor’s premonition. Oh! Wait! History has already born that one out…
Criminny.
…can’t even resort to creative hyperbole for yucks, anymore. It’s all too true. Sick to death of reality out-running my pessimistic imagination.
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Was there any jurisdiction or organization that conducted an exit poll? Or have they gone the way of the dodo and common sense?
http://www.votenaturally.org/el...8;countyid=all
the above link is the sec of state of arks web site,look under results by location,all counties one page,scroll to monroe county
i picked monroe to look at because it had the highest turn out rate @ 64.60%
the web site says voters must ask for a dem ballot or rep ballot,the web site says its paper ballots with a central counter
in the dem senate race,a total of 600 votes are reported,in the rep senate race a total of 2793 votes are reported equaling 3393(the exact number reported in the turn out report)
but in the district 1 race 1860 dem votes are reported,and 318 rep votes are reported for monroe county
my forth grade math question is,how did 3 times as many dems vote in the district race than the senate race? the other 3 districts in monroe had no figures available yet but that doesnt matter to my question
to be clear unless i am missing something,monroe is reporting that 600 dem ballots went out for the senate race but ovr 3 times that number(dem ballots) went out for 1 district race
Just found this story about a mail-in ballot snafu in San Francisco – thought you’d want to know!
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local...-94227469.html
Who is this @maciej person (11.) who is posting the same note in multiple article comment threads? This seems like spam to me.
@camusrebel #12: Exit polls? I don’t think so. Those can be trouble, as they can show how an election might have been infected by electoral fraud. That’s why they are used during most international elections to provide a cross-check against fraud and electoral dysfunction. Can’t have anything like THAT in the USA — it would imply that our elections were anything but 100% fair, honest and as they appear. Nuff said. Move on now, nothing to see here. Really, there IS nothing to see here, no ballots, no transparency, NOTHING.