Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries

Westech writes "Multiple indications of vote fraud are beginning to pop up regarding the New Hampshire primary elections. Roughly 80% of New Hampshire precincts use Diebold machines, while the remaining 20% are hand counted. A Black Box Voting contributor has compiled a chart of results from hand counted precincts vs. results from machine counted precincts. In machine counted precincts, Clinton beat Obama by almost 5%. In hand counted precincts, Obama beat Clinton by over 4%, which closely matches the scientific polls that were conducted leading up to the election. Another issue is the Republican results from Sutton precinct. The final results showed Ron Paul with 0 votes in Sutton. The next day a Ron Paul supporter came forward claiming that both she and several of her family members had voted for Ron Paul in Sutton. Black Box Voting reports that after being asked about the discrepancy Sutton officials decided that Ron Paul actually received 31 votes in Sutton, but they were left off of the tally sheet due to 'human error.'"

Comments

Fire the Hand Counters

[Edward Ka-Spel]

"In machine counted precincts, Clinton beat Obama by almost 5%. In hand counted precincts, Obama beat Clinton by over 4%"

Sounds like the hand counters did a terrible job. They lost about 9% of Hillary's ballots. I would look into some serious voter fraud on these hand counters. They were clearly trying to throw the vote in Obama's favor.

(slightly sarcastic reply to point out there is more than one way to explain a stat)

Re:These things happen

[Sylver Dragon]

What currently stops your boss from ordering you to come to his office and swear a solemn oath with God as your witness, that you voted as he told you to?

Swear what to which god? No problem.
One hand on the Bible, one hand on the Koran, scrotum on the Torah, sitting on the I Ching; invoke the god of your choice and I can still claim anything I want to, and you're stuck either believing me or not. But if there's a paper trail linking me to my votes, I'm an easy target for discrimination. It may not be legal, but that is only a minor impediment to some. In the end a secret ballot, with only you knowing the real truth of it is the only way to allow people to vote as they wish. Any link from you to your ballot is asking for corruption.