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Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies
boot1780 writes "Having 'successfully sued former Palm Beach County (FL) Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore to get the audit records for the 2004 presidential election,' Black Box Voting reports that the 'internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.' Besides the date discrepancies, they claim to have discovered countless other errors and anomalies, including a case of one voting machine being 'powered down 128 times during the election'." Given the findings here, can we have a do-over?
So basically you're inferring that the machines setup and run by Democrats illegally gave votes to Bush right?
Sequoia can't even build machines that pass the federal standards, and you're blaming the local volunteer operators? Funny how whenever these black box voting machines "just don't work", they error in favor of republicans.
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As a side note to fellow Republicans, his closing advice is just as valid for us. Contact the RNC and make your opinion known. Write to your representatives and senate and let them know that you disagree with executive branch policies. This is your party: step up and take charge of it.
This is a great point! While I think Kerry is a democrat who is on par with the rest of his party's values, etc., Bush is WAY out of line with what the republican party was known for - and what longtime republican voters were assuming.
When I think traditional republican, I think personal privacy, constitutional protection, fiscal conservatism, and social conservatism. But Bush, who got all those always-vote-republican votes, has completely departed from those first three key traditional republican values!
I wouldn't mind so much if traditional republicans were in power, but the Republican party has been hijacked. Just like they used Colin Powell's reputation to trick people into believing them, they're using the Republican party to push their own selfish, money-driven agendas instead of what the Republican party used to be about and what voters were expecting.
Longtime republicans should be careful who they're voting for in the coming elections. You can't just trust the (R) next to a name anymore.
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So are you saying that we shouldn't develop a system that is auditable and verifyable? that it isn't possible? Diebold said the logistics and cost of having a paper trail kept it out of the design. Funny thing is, as long as I can remember, I've gotten a reciept from the grocery store even when I buy a stick of gum. In fact, I believe reciepts for purchases have been around for a while now. So we can provide a verifyable paper trail and auditable sales record for my stick of gum, but not for my vote? Maybe we should have the IRS run the election. The fact they would make an outrageous claim that a paper trail was unfeasable should pretty much point to some type of malfeasance or at least incompetence. Either way, we don't want them running our vote then. To make matters worse, the largest vote counter, ES&S, has Diebold presidents brother as their vice president. (Bob Urosevich was the president of Diebold. Todd, vice president of ES&S.) These two companies count roughly 80 percent of the votes in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Even if you don't want to believe fraud of this magnitude could exist in the United States, wouldn't it still be prudent to not put all our eggs in one basket? Especially when the basket is easily broken and constructed so shoddily. Ahhh...what am I thinking....we can trust our government and big business...they haven't lied to us ever. They never make decisions based on whats in their or their friends best interest. Bah ha ha ha ha ha. Enjoy the apathy.