In a different North Carolina incident to the one we’ve already report where some 4500 votes were lost for good from a single NC E-Voting machine, The Sun-Journal is now reporting additional North Carolina E-vote errors:
Then, in the rush to make right the miscalculation that swelled the number of votes for president here by 11,283 more votes than the total number cast, a human mistake further delayed accurate totals for the 40,534 who voted.
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An override, like those occurring when one attempts to save a computer file that already exists, is supposed to prevent double counting, but did not function correctly, [Craven County Elections Director, Tiffiney] Miller said.
This machine in question, by the way, was also an ES&S machine.
The story also notes that “a national Republican political consultant who had watched the returns and had some concern that other precincts were involved in the problem entered the office.” — Hello? Are there “national Democratic political consultants” out there who are watching this stuff as well?!
It’s "overwrite", not "override".
God help us, these people are so technologically illiterate!
I checked the NC county I live in and we voted for Kerry 63%! The NC county with the reputation for "liberal ideas" voted for Bush (I think it was 51%).
Lori, since you know NC so well, see what you can put together on such issues. You should be able to find County by County (if not Precinct by Precinct) vote tallies somewhere on the NC Sec. of State’s website.
Look at it, see what you can put together and/or discovery as far as any anomalies go and get back to me by Email with any specifics if you’re able to track anything notable down. Hard numbers.
lori,
I live in North Carolina also so please tell if I can help you. 🙂
Brad,
What you are describing is what I looked at, don’t remember where though. I’ll find it !
TAAA DAAA!
County-by-county, district-by-district results for all national and state races in North Carolina; complete ballot initiatives/measures/propositions information .
Looks likfe you can check voting from every state.
I will try to do some research. Henry, I have not lived in NC very long, so I don’t know a lot about the make up of the state. I just know that someone described Asheville (Buncombe county) as being full of granola eaters and gays. Nice huh?
Potential Problem
The NC State Board of elections has this posted on their web site:
Straight Party Voting: Votes cast for president, non-partisan offices, and state or local referendum are separate from a straight party vote. For further information, ask your precinct official when you go to vote. http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/index.html
Could this be a problem? Did people not know this? Apparently the SBE thought it may be a problem or why else would they post it?
We would need to compare the number of straight party votes to "blank votes" for president.
For instance: in comparing the counties that voted for Bush with the voter registration for each county.
Alamance voted 61% for Bush but it appears that most of the county is registered Dems. I know that people don’t vote across party lines but…..
See this PDF file.
And this from AP.
Total NC votes for Pres Gov Sen
3407469 3385067 3376056
Difference between Pres and gov 22402
or how many voted for a Pres & not for a Gov
Difference between Pres and Sen 31413
or how many voted for a pres & not for a Sen
difference between Gov and Sen 9011
or how many voted for a Gov and not for a Sen