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

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[xstonedogx]

Dad, you're drunk again!

Re:Finally!

[netsavior]

Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop.

No need to "wait for it for days" just saying.

Re:People tend to get...

[Chemicalscum]

..the government they deserve. And as an outside (from the UK) it looks as if that is about to apply to America. It isn't like any of this is surprising.

As a British expatriate, I want to ask did the British people deserve Bliar and NuLab. Britain has an uncorruptible voting system where the only choice you have is which of the corrupt to vote for.

Re:These things happen

[markov_chain]

They probably used Diebold's Integrated Exit Polling system.

Re:These things happen

[OECD]

If ballots weren't secret, how would you keep people from coercing voters? How would you keep people from selling their votes? Ballots are secret for good reason.

Oh please. This is America; nobody's going to coerce my vote. They're going to buy it, fair and square.

Someone once posted here with the following sig:

[jocknerd]

If voting could make a difference, it would be outlawed.

Best signature every.

Re:Very easy solution

[CmdrPorno]

"Either hand counted ballots, or optical scan vote counting machines."

You mean I can just look at the candidate I want to vote for, and the retina scan vote counting machine will register my vote? What if I'm looking at the cute little blonde in the parking lot?

Re:These things happen

[Bonewalker]

I think you mean Diebold Integrated Exit Tracking, or DIET. It reduces and trims votes down to nothing! And literally by the end of the election, you'll have no votes left.

Testimonials -
DIET sure did for me what none of the other voting systems, either manual or electronic, had been able to do. It reduced my 31 votes to 0 votes in no time flat. Thanks, Diebold! - Ron Paul

Re:These things happen

[Anonymous Coward]

If I owned a business and I really didn't like democrats, why should I be forced to employ them indifferently with republicans? I should be allowed to employ whoever I want for my own business, that's right within free-association if you ask me. Rupert Murdoch, is that you?

Re:Finally!

[niktemadur]

I've been here for years, have a four digit ID, and have NEVER had one of my stories posted.

Maybe the Slashdot submission process is powered by Diebold?

Re:Finally!

[AmaDaden]

I doubt it. I've been waiting for it too. It's been on the firehose for a day or two and it's a been all over Digg. I love Slashdot for the comment quality but sometimes it's so slow on big stories.

America

[Anonymous Coward]

America can put a rover into a creator on Mars; America can communicate with Voyager outside of the Solar System, but America cannot correctly count votes in New Hampshire. Awesome.

Re:These things happen

[Tony Hoyle]

Women are a minority?

Ssh.. they might hear you, then we'll all be in trouble...

Re:Very easy solution

[Fred_A]

"Either hand counted ballots, or optical scan vote counting machines."

You mean I can just look at the candidate I want to vote for, and the retina scan vote counting machine will register my vote? What if I'm looking at the cute little blonde in the parking lot? Then maybe people would start getting interested in politcal debates again.

"Tonight with us, the little blonde from the parking lot and the hot brunette from the voting queue who took pollers by surprise and now seem to be the strongest contenders for the post of governor of New Hampshire. But first a word from our sponsors !"

ATM machines are more reliable, because..

[Cajun Hell]

why is it that Diebold can make ATM machines that don't seem to get hacked

ATM machines are inherently more reliable, due to redundancy. Suppose the "machine" fails: you still have the "M" in "ATM". Suppose the "M" fails: you still have "machine." As technology advances, things will be even better: we'll have automatic ATM machines, in which the automation is redundant. Some serious dreamers/futurists are even putting forth the idea of automated teller ATM machines. When using these machines, it is speculated that you'll have two chances to enter your PIN number before it eats your card.

Re:These things happen

[Ugot2BkidNme]

Speaking from experience?

That is a rather odd example.

Re:For heaven's sake...

[Otter]

He's a "doctor" who doesn't believe in evolution... which makes him "mister Ron Paul" in my book.

Gee, I was aiming at rabid Paulists and seem to have hit a Furious Atheist instead.

Re:Finally!

[ray-auch]

Mr Coward, looking at your posting history you have _way_ more than a couple of UIDs...

Re: Sarchasm

[TaoPhoenix]

Is that the gap between the user's experience on Slashdot and his subsequent disillusionment?