{"id":1113,"date":"2005-01-08T22:38:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T02:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2005-01-08T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2005-01-09T02:38:42","slug":"pennsylvania-announces-probe-of-e-voting-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Announces Probe of E-Voting Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/i> reports<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Department of State will open an examination of electronic voting system problems that plagued balloting in three counties and led to the resignation of an election director, agency officials said. <\/p>\n

Voters using the new machines in Mercer, Greene and Beaver counties on Nov. 2 complained that their votes were voided when they tried to review their choices, which led to long lines at some balloting locations. <\/p>\n

Eight counties used the same machines made by UniLect, based in Dublin, Calif., but the voting difficulties were limited to the three counties in Western Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n

Misprogrammed electronic voting machines malfunctioned in 4th Congressional District precincts in Shenango Township, West Middlesex, Wheatland, Farrell and Hermitage.<\/p><\/div>\n

A pencil and a piece of paper hardly ever malfunction.<\/p>\n

Not to be a luddite or anything.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 1\/9\/05:<\/b><\/i> From an emailer…for whatever you may decide it’s worth…<\/p>\n

Look at the stats on the counties that had problems in PA:<\/p>\n

MERCER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
\nVOTER REGISTRATION FACTS AS OF 10\/26\/2004
\nREGISTERED VOTERS IN MERCER COUNTY<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATIC \t36,749
\nREPUBLICAN \t31,621
\nLIBERTARIAN \t219
\nGREEN \t105
\nOTHER \t7,379
\nTOTALS \t76,073<\/p>\n

MERCER COUNTY, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATIC JOHN F. KERRY . . . . . . . . . . . 47.71%. . 22761
\nREPUBLICAN GEORGE W. BUSH. . . . . . . . . . . 51.45%. . 24545<\/p>\n

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Greene County historically registers Democrats at a 2:1 ratio to Republicans, this year the registration was slightly less than a 2:1 Democratic advantage.<\/p>\n

COUNTY OF GREENE<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATIC JOHN F. KERRY\/JOHN EDWARDS . . . . . . . . . . 49.30%. . 7674
\nREPUBLICAN GEORGE W. BUSH \/DICK CHENEY . . . . . . . . . . . 50.02%. . 7786<\/p>\n

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Beaver County<\/p>\n

Same goes for this county, registration for Democrats is just less than 2:1 advantage over Republicans.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATIC JOHN F. KERRY\/JOHN EDWARDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.06%. . 42146
\nREPUBLICAN GEORGE W. BUSH\/DICK CHENEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.36%. . 39916<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports… The Pennsylvania Department of State will open an examination of electronic voting system problems that plagued balloting in three counties and led to the resignation of an election director, agency officials said. Voters using the new machines in Mercer, Greene and Beaver counties on Nov. 2 complained that their votes were voided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}