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Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines"

Posted by kdawson on from the smoking-gun dept.

The indispensible jamie found a report out of Kentucky of exactly the kind of shenanigans that voting-transparency advocates have been warning about: a circuit court judge, a county clerk, and election officials are among eight people indicted for gaming elections in 2002, 2004, and 2006. As described in the indictment (PDF), the election officials divvied up money intended to buy votes and then changed votes on the county's (popular, unverifiable) ES&S touch-screen voting systems, affecting the outcome of elections at the local, state, and federal levels.

6 of 494 comments (clear)

  1. Election Fraud by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Funny

    We never had it before electronic voting systems. And it is impossible to catch because there is no paper trail.

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    1. Re:Election Fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      a circuit court judge, a county clerk, and election officials are among eight people indicted for gaming elections in 2002, 2004, and 2006

      You see, this is why I don't vote;
      Those guys are much more qualified to pick a candidate than I am. Why bother?-)

    2. Re:Election Fraud by MrMarket · · Score: 5, Funny

      But it should be pointed out that /. tends to mention the Party of a wrongdoer if the wrongdoer is Republican, and omit it if he's a Democrat.

      You must be new here. /. is full of Liberation engineers and IT industry protectionists. Neither of which really have a home in the US two party system. You might confuse the trend in the last 8 years of Bush bashing with Democratic leaning, but it was actually just a low tolerance for idiocy. Rest assured, the idiots in the current majority party will also be called out.

    3. Re:Election Fraud by VShael · · Score: 4, Funny

      But it should be pointed out that /. tends to mention the Party of a wrongdoer if the wrongdoer is Republican, and omit it if he's a Democrat.

      Then what's the problem? You can clearly tell the two part, by assuming the corrupt party is a Democrat, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

      Sounds like a Republican friendly set up to me, if the assumption of corruption = Dem.

    4. Re:Election Fraud by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 5, Funny

      All politicians are liars and crooks.

      I choose the party that's going to steal for me.

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  2. Re:Hang them. by tonyreadsnews · · Score: 5, Funny

    It might be easier if you ask them who paid BEFORE they are swinging from the rope. Unless you plan on hanging them by their ankles.