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Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there's-your-smoking-gun dept.

Catbeller writes "The AP is reporting that Randy Wooten, mayoral candidate for Waldenburg Arkansas (a town of eighty people) discovered that the electronic voting system hadn't registered the one vote he knew had been cast for him ... because he cast it himself. The Machine gave him zero votes. That would be an error rate of 3%, counting the actual votes cast — 18 and 18 for a total of 36." From the article: "Poinsett County Election Commissioner Junaway Payne said the issue had been discussed but no action taken yet. 'It's our understanding from talking with the secretary of state's office that a court order would have to be obtained in order to open the machine and check the totals,' Payne said. 'The votes were cast on an electronic voting machine, but paper ballots were available.'"

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  1. the funny thing by f1055man · · Score: 5, Interesting

    about the article is that his wife was the one who told him he got zero votes. She asked him if he had voted for himself to make sure it was wrong....err, someone's going to be sleeping on the couch.

  2. What happened to his wife's vote? by Nick+Gisburne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So he voted for himself, but his wife went to check the vote for him. Okay, so who did his WIFE vote for?!

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  3. Re:Please note by slughead · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It doesn't matter if it changed the fucking outcome! The point is that VOTES WERE NOT COUNTED!

    NO freakin kidding.

    We had the same thing happen in Arizona a while ago--the guy voted for himself, and his wife voted for him too.

    Final count: Zero.

    We don't even have electronic voting here.

    I should point out that nothing came of it, either.

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    Latewire
  4. Re:Why would you need a voting machine for 80 vote by ozzee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... Mandated by the USA !

    see http://www.afsa.org/fsj/feb01/carter01.cfm

    We mandate the democratic election standards through aid funding to needy countries, yet we don't meet the same standard ourselves.

    Go figure.