This has been a really whacky election, starting with NC GOP suing North Carolina State Board of Elections over voting machine failure, up to a Pennsylvania man in ambulance has drivers stop by polling place and he votes from his stretcher.

Oh, and in Canada, municipal voters are upset because of long wait to vote via internet.

Crazy election year.

AP quote above includes: "Without the voter roster, Arntz said officials would not be able to determine whose ballots were taken. But he added that so far, it does not appear the missing ballots would have changed the outcome of the election."

This implies there is no privacy in such voting systems!!!!!

article says he made off with the ballots and the memory card on Tuesday afternoon. Who knows how many votes were on the card. Could have been 75 or any other number.

http://www.opednews.com/...tteldorf-101103-827.html

The above link is for info about discrepancies between exit polls and poll results, showing a one in a million chance that there was not election fraud helping republican senator and governor victories.

x93fe @ 2 said:

AP quote above includes: "Without the voter roster, Arntz said officials would not be able to determine whose ballots were taken. But he added that so far, it does not appear the missing ballots would have changed the outcome of the election."

This implies there is no privacy in such voting systems!!!!!

No, I think you may have misread that graf. Or, perhaps, over read that graf.

If the voter roster showed who signed in to vote that day --- presumably 75 voters at that point --- it would tell us who the 75 voters were whose ballots were stolen. I don't believe it would tell us which ballot was cast by which voter. In fact, I'm sure it wouldn't, since it would be illegal to have a system which allows for matching ballot to voter in CA.

Perhaps he wanted to see if the votes on the data card matched the ballots? Maybe he was trying to be a hero?

Ballots reportedly found in the pond at the Palace of Fine Arts. Memory card still missing.

For those intrigued by this mystery and searching for clues, I offer the following: The Palace of Fine Arts is the home of the science museum known as The Exploratorium. This museum began with an exhibit known as Cybernetic Serendipity. That sounds like a clue, doesn't it?

The article says it's unclear if the ballots will be counted because the chain of custody has been broken. Ya think?