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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.

3 of 494 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Standards of democracy? by itschy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I suspect that in elections from 2000 to 2006, the standards of democracy in the US fell to below what we would consider acceptable in emerging democracies. Where there would be monitoring from outside observers.

    Actually, many international Organizations wanted to monitor the US-american elections.
    They were not allowed.
    Go figure...

  2. Re:Election Fraud by titten · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The flaw exploited would be the fact that the voter had no 'receipt' or evidence of what they voted. Had there been such a thing, nobody would leave without it.

  3. Re:Election Fraud by The+FNP · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, it clearly says that WW and CW were the Democrat and Republican election officials for a certain precinct. Meaning that both Democrats and Republicans were in on it.

    --The FNP