Folks are beginning to pay attention, guys!
Wired Magazine is now reporting that three Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee are now calling for an investigation of the troubling incidents that we’ve been reporting concerning irregularities in Tuesday’s vote counting!:
The congressmen, Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Florida, New York and Michigan, cited a number of incidents that came to light in the days after the election. One was a glitch in Ohio that caused a memory card reader made by Danaher Controls to give George W. Bush 3,893 more votes than he should have received. Another was a problem with memory cards in North Carolina that caused machines made by UniLect to lose 4,500 votes cast on e-voting machines. The votes were lost when the number of votes cast on the machines exceeded the capacity of the memory cards.
There were also problems with machines that counted absentee ballots in Florida. Software made by Election Systems & Software began subtracting votes when totals surpassed 32,000. Officials said the problem affected only certain countywide races on one of the last pages of the ballot. Elections officials knew about the problem two years ago, but the company failed to fix the software before the election this year.
Reports from voters in Florida and Ohio also indicated that some of them had problems voting for the candidate of their choice. When they tried to vote for John Kerry, they said, the machine either wouldn’t register the vote at all or would indicate on the review page that the vote was cast for Bush instead.
Keep up the noise, guys! They’re starting to listen! I’ve had other unconfirmed reports about both Dems and the Kerry campaign beginning to take notice of all of this as well!
UPDATE: House Judiciary Committee Letter to GAO, as mentioned above, available here in PDF format. (Hat tip “Shari H-D” for the link!)
What other "unconfirmed" reports about Dmes and Kerry campaign beginning to take notice?
Do you think that these congressmen’s letter to the GAO will make a difference?
Do you think RoveCo. is listening in to any of this and has already figured out how to "cut it off"?
All good questions, Shari. None of them I’d be able to answer with more than just an opinion. So for the moment, I won’t 🙂
I believe, however, this is very good news that these issues have broken out from the Blogosphere to the halls of Capitol Hill.
Much more, no doubt, to come. As I said (quoting Drudge) DEVELOPING HARD…
Check back soon!
Wexler foresaw it… he knows the vote fraud in Florida was highly predictable and completely unsurprising.
One of my favorite unpublished stories ever:
http://groups.google.com/groups...et&rnum=1
I wonder what Miguel A. Amador was doing on election night?
Time to look into the overvote (read: double-punched) numbers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio — a punch card ballot. Anyone wanna bet that the overvote numbers are significantly higher in precincts from East Cleveland or Ward 5?
By the way… anyone know how long the voting lines were in the rich, white suburbs of Cincinnati? Methinks not long.
Keep up the good work, Brad!
Look, we not only need the gentile approach but we need
boots on the ground in Ohio and Florida demanding more
information about what went on. The machines are used in heavily democratic counties in both states, and in both states the swap in percent between final exit poll tallies and reported vote was at the limit or beyond the margin of error. As Randi Rhodes and Jihad Unspun have reported, this is not true of only theset two states.
We need a mobilization of the student voters and minority voters, those most likely to have been disenfranchised, in Columbus and Talahassee. We need it like this weekend or Monday! THey need to march on
Blackwell and Hood’s office and demand evidence their votes were counted. Lets all help to whip it up!
Ken,
This matter may be an act of terror, treason, or war to say the least. Bush would be wise not to even attempt to block a full investigation considering the leagcy of the republican party members like Rove, Cheney, and Rumsfled. Not unless the other republicans want to return the Know Nothing Party they were in the Seventys after Watergate. 🙂
I agree. I want justice served NOW!! I am willing to do whatever to takes to make this right. I’ll making phone calls, write letters, stand on the street corner, protest, go to Washington DC, mobilize the voters in these critical states.
So — how? where to start? Or can some of these 527s with their mailing lists (i.e., MoveOn, Swing the Vote, etc) do this?
I agree with Ken, I don’t care about the next election…this one stinks to high heaven. We need Democrats who will fight to expose this foul election. It is not legitimate. I am very involved with Dems in Texas and none of the people I know believe the results were legit. My family and I all believe this election was a sham.
Thank you Brad, so much, for focusing on this issue…the only issue that matters to me right now.
We need to push this! What is wrong with the Dems? Why is this letter to the GAO satisfied in asking what can be done in future elections? How about verifying the one we just had?
If ANYONE from the Kerry campaign or DNC is reading this: WHY ARE YOU CONTINUING TO ROLL OVER FOR PEOPLE? WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE YOU WAKE UP AND FIGHT?
CNN just reported that e-voting machines passed the test and that there were no significant problems reported. What planet are they on? I am so angry…..
Nothing will happen unless this spreads from the web to the mainstream media. The problem is that it all sounds like a "conspiracy theory", which no one wants to touch. We need investigators to come up with hard evidence or this will stay in cyberspace forever. To get investigators, everyone needs to bombard their elected officials and media outlets with e-mails stating the need for unbiased research into this issue. If enough people voice concerns, someone will listen.
I tried posting a comment this morning from my home pc was got a message saying I was "Banned" from using this site. It then listed an IP address:
IP: 198.81.26.42
Any idea why?
Thanks
JJ
Jeff – Apologies for the glitch. I can’t explain it other than to say that we’ve been under continuous DDoS (hack attacks) for the last two days, and that could likely be causing quite a few oddities.
PLEASE continue to try again, and let me know via Email if the same problem exists from your Home PC and I can try to look into it further.
Now why would some folks want to shut *us* down, I wonder? 🙂
Thanks for your reply Brad. I can use my pc from work and post without any problem.
What I wrote this morning though was the fact that it seems to me there should be a larger scale investigation into all the aspects of this election. When you consider the overt attempts of Republicans to disenfranchise large numbers of newly registered voters through intimidation and challenges, the fact that many who recently registered to vote were told they weren’t registered when they tried to vote, and the fact that the heavily populated democratic precincts made voters wait in line for hours to vote, it sounds like an organized effort to prevent the people from expressing their will through the voting process.
Add to that the inconsistent counts registered from certain scanning machines in heavily populated democratic counties in Florida and the touch screen voting machines that registered the wrong candidate and the big picture adds up to something that smells pretty rotten.
Sounds like racketeering to me. Isn’t this what the RICO statutes were designed for?
We need a subpeona for the machines in the questionable counties – fla. ohio, etc.