Following on our earlier report today, covering 100’s of electronic voting machines in Philadelphia which failed to start up this morning for Pennsylvania’s primary election, we now have a similar report from the other side of the state.
100’s of machines in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, also failed to work correctly today. If we’re able to remember correctly (since the story doesn’t name any voting machine company names), Allegheny County finally settled on voting machines made by ES&S, after they abandoned hopes of going with Diebold when their machines were found to be hackable, and then later found machines from Sequoia Voting Systems — who they’d planned to use instead — were discovered to be similarly hackable.
ES&S eventually won the prize, just weeks before today’s primary — we warned about going with a new system with so little time to prepare, but did they listen? — yet appear to have lost the day for PA voters, according to this report from Pittsburgh’s Post-Gazette…
Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato today said 120 machines wouldn’t produce “zero-count” printouts to start the day confirming there were no votes registered in the machines.
Mr. Onorato said the elections bureau got 400 calls to start the day. By 11 a.m., there were still more than 20 polling places with problems.
There are more than 2,600 of the new machines spread over 1,314 precincts.
Mr. Onorato also said nine machines had their screens cracked during transit to the polling places.
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Surrounding counties also were reporting problems with the zero-count printouts.
Larry Spahr said 20 or 25 of Washington County’s 185 precincts reported problems. Mr. Spahr is director of elections.
More details on the failures in the Post-Gazette’s story. Amongst those details, apparently Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) was locked out of his polling place when an election worker failed to show up to open it this morning.
Interestingly, the other local newspaper here (the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) considered the election to have gone smoothly:
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is owned by Richard Mellon Scaife.
I never figured I would be back here, but I have returned at the end of it all.
I am here to once and for all clear my name respectively. All of the election fraud has now been confirmed, and it has been proven.
I do not want to ever hear the word disinformation again. It is a fake word used to take attention away from very serious crimes that relate to "sensitive subjects"
Not only was there nothing wrong about it, there was basically no misinformation in the election fraud evidence.
AIPAC is fully behind all election fraud and has committed treason in America.
My name will be cleared permanently, since the end is nearing. I will be also providing irrefutable proof in audit logs of the tampering that took place.
All three voting machine companies, but specifically Sequoia and Diebold have been confirmed to use the illegal Choicepoint-linked program.
We have confirmed the bank accounts that paid for the election fraud and we have confirmed the neocons who were for a fact behind it.
The Department of Justice has now confirmed basically everything, and more will be coming out.
The Whistleblower and former Congressional Candidate in Florida was not only not wrong, one day he will be commended for standing up to the treason.
In this country more than 3 other nations have committed treason. One of them Sibel Edmonds talks about, happens to be behind the worst of the election fraud….
And we have also complete proof of Porter Goss financing the overseas project. Porter Goss resigned for good due to what we uncovered. More will be resigning, don’t wait up.
Just pray all the machines break down, because the programming code the neocons are confirmed to have written, is a deadly worm that purges voters regardless of creed. And its linked right to Choicepoint.
Contact me whenever you have a question or just have to get a word in.
Doug Eldritch
{ed note: Comment deleted. Disinformation. Knock it off Doug. If you’re not going to give evidence for your claims, they will be deleted.}
Doug, are you the nutty disinfo freak Al Rogers in disguise?
You destroy any possible credibility you could have, with this statement of yours:
"We have confirmed the bank accounts that paid for the election fraud and we have confirmed the neocons who were for a fact behind it."
Fablecrusaders were soooooo last year. Get a life!
LOL, are you accusing yourself now?
Brad, any IP info for this troll?
Actually no John, we have proof that your real name is not John Dean and that you work with Al Rogers.
And all of you ignorant neocon trolls are just about to receive your final just deserts. Do you remember Oklahoma city?
Was that an "anti-semitic" conspiracy theory too?
All you flunkies are basically done for along with your laughable labels.
Doug E.
So do you have anything better to do than hang around like other neocons, such as Les Barth and spout your tongue off?
I guess not. Well I’ll be off then. When you’re in jail I’ll be sure and send a postcard, since I’m not concerned with any neocons after how many I’ve fought.
; -)
Doug
Whig, this was an interesting part of your quote:
every polling station for the primary had at least one working machine by 6 p.m., county Chief Executive Dan Onorato said.
Ah, yes. No wonder he said it was such a successful election. By 6pm on Election Day, every polling place had a way for people to vote. Lovely.
RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE, referred to in comment #1 by Whig:
He really is the "man behind the curtain" manipulating events and opinion.
Fascinating reading:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/...caife.profile/
Orwell rolls in his grave is available for streaming at Information Clearing House for those who havn’t seen it yet
Link Here
The Neo-Cons are trying to raise the bullshit on Chavez again
Link
The anti-Democracy crowd at it again
(Dan Burton-R, nightmare on K-street)
Fascist "Family Values" Repug who is married
and had a torrid affair,… barely squeaks by to win the primary in Pa. . Out spends his opponent by
60X in campaign.
Fascist "Family Values" Repug is a HYPOCRITE
The later edition (and print run) of the Post-Gazette said the election went smoothly, too. See here:
No "zero-vote" count huh?
If I ever bought a calculator and the "clear" button didn’t work, I’m pretty sure it would end up in the garbage can!
Taxes spent for garbage!
That has to have Grover Norquist’s head exploding, right Grover?
Grover? You there?
hmmmmm….
Philadelphia, and now Pittsburgh….. the big cities, where there’s lots of Democrats.
Just stating facts, no conspiracies!
…and WHIG was just trampsing around the internet, and happened to come across BradBlog! And happened to be the first post!
WOW! What a coincidence!
WHIG, how did you come upon this site?
Richard Mellon Scaife/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sorry about the comments, WHIG… there’s so much trolling misinformation posters, I’m getting paranoid!
Thanks Big Dan – interesting read!
God – they’re everywhere!
Hey Big Dan. I read here a lot. I just don’t post much because I haven’t got a lot to add most of the time. You’d be more likely to find me over at Glenn Greenwald’s site or CNews.
Btw, I’ve been using Whig as my online name for a decade at least. Has nothing to do with the White House Iraq Group. I kinda resent them taking my name, but the Whig Party a hundred years ago was also far from being Whiggish.
And I was first post on this thread because I mentioned the PG article in the previous thread.
Big Dan:
Quote:
"hmmmmm….
Philadelphia, and now Pittsburgh….. the big cities, where there’s lots of Democrats.
Just stating facts, no conspiracies! "
Or do you think it might just have something to do with, ohh, I dunno, THAT’S WHERE THE MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS ARE?!?!?!?!
It happened everywhere Dan, not just PHL and PIT.
I voted today, we used to have lever machines in the last election, today we had ES&S for the first time. A very small town, about 250 people. I asked them many questions about vote fraud and their knowledge of ES&S & DIEBOLD, and they knew nothing. I said that maybe they ought to know more about this, and they said that the election officials should’ve looked into what I’m talking about, not them. Sad.
Sorry WHIG, I got you mixed up with someone else. I’m on the rampage for trolls and misinformers. It’s a pet peeve of mine. They have to be put in their place, they’re ruining our country. There’s intelligent misinformers, who know what they’re doing…they act like they’re "on our side", then when they get the "in", they start misinforming. Then, there’s the complete kook-aid idiots like Ricky, etc… Two types.
I thought you were pulling a "Wally O’Diebold"… sorry, I just can’t stand it… got the wrong guy…
btw… this Doug stuff is flying over my head…
BTW, also, Republican Don Sherwood, who choked his mistress in Washington & "settled" out of court for $5 million, squeaked by for the win in Tunkhannock, Pa. I’ve been posting links about that story. "Republican Family Values" won out. I guess Clinton getting a blowjob turned off Republicans more than choking a mistress. All hypocrites!!! The voters, too, are hypocrites, for voting for him. Forget about adulterers who choke their mistresses, "he’s our guy".
Big Dan:
Don’t feel bad, after the Kerry "defeat", the trust level has gone to hell. I feel like a brown shirt whenever I try to talk to someone I don’t know about politics.
Remember what they say "just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean somebody’s not watching you".
The trolls must live in a very strange world, pity them!
The world of trolls
Thanks for that Bluebear!