{"id":925,"date":"2004-11-09T21:25:47","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T01:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2007-09-14T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T21:46:11","slug":"questions-and-action-items-for-florida-and-exit-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Questions and Action Items for Florida and Exit Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent and cogent analysis and action items concerning Florida and the Exit Polls from Ian Welsch over at BOP. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bopnews.com\/archives\/002357.html#002357\" target=\"_blank\">give it a look<\/a> and see if you can help.<\/p>\n<p>I would add one further question\/action item to Ian&#8217;s list. It would be useful to learn what type of counting machine was in use in Broward County when it began <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00000897.htm\"><i>subtracting<\/i> votes from the tally<\/a>, due to a bug in the software, and what other counties in Florida and\/or the rest of the country used the same machine and software. 70,000 votes were &#8220;found&#8221; in that incident, and a local initiative overturned with the discovery of them.<\/p>\n<p>The code used in these machines is not written separately for each individual machine that I know of. If the error occurred once in Broward (and was reportedly noticed), where else did it also occur and <i>not<\/i> get noticed?<\/p>\n<p>Ditto for the <i>UniElect<\/i> machine in North Carolina that entirely <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=694&#038;u=\/ap\/20041104\/ap_on_el_pr\/voting_problems&#038;printer=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>lost<\/i> at least 7,000 votes<\/a> in a single county because it&#8217;s memory chip only held 3005 votes instead of the 10,000 that manufacturer <i>UniLect<\/i> had promised. Where else was the same type of computer in use? I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/basic\/news\/281829446390855.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio used <i>UniLect<\/i> machines<\/a>, and they reported unfixable problems with them on Election Day, but I haven&#8217;t been able to tell if they were the same type as those in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>(It must be up to us to figure this crap out, because the MSM is enjoying their well-deserved nap.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent and cogent analysis and action items concerning Florida and the Exit Polls from Ian Welsch over at BOP. Please give it a look and see if you can help. I would add one further question\/action item to Ian&#8217;s list. It would be useful to learn what type of counting machine was in use in [&hellip;]<\/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":[8,6,16,188,43,15,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2004","category-election-irregularities","category-florida","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-north-carolina","category-ohio","category-unilect","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}