Please pay attention, people.
Another race, the second in a week, has now been overturned in Arkansas due to failures of the ES&S voting machines (here was the other we reported earlier in the week).
Says the candidate who ended up losing in the very-low-turnout race after the ES&S machine failure was discovered: “What’s going to happen in November when there’s a presidential race and there’s all sorts of people here. This was a 1,500 person turnout. What’s going to happen when there’s a 20,000 turnout?”
What’s going to happen indeed. Arkansas is quickly becoming Florida/Ohio, it seems. Worse, these very same, oft-failed ES&S machines are used all over the country.
Here’s coverage from the Arkansas paper [emphasis ours]…
The new outcome, according to Election Commission Chair Bruce Haggard, is Tyler, 792 votes; Dr. Terry Fiddler, 764 votes.
“I want to apologize personally and on behalf of the election commissioners and the county clerk for these recording errors that were made on election night,” Haggard said, adding that the commission will conduct an audit “to find out what went wrong” and ensure the mistakes made Tuesday night never happen again.
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The election commission also discovered an error in the East Cadron B precinct machine that caused votes cast in the Cadron Township Constable race for John Edwards and Paul Niehaus to be “dropped into” the District 45 race, Haggard said. He said he did not know whether this mistake was caused by an error within the machine or an error by the person who programmed the machine.
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“As a result of that one precinct, where the constable race results were placed in the District 45 results, Tyler lost 6 and Fiddler lost 51,” Haggard said.
The result was “a net change of 16 plus for Tyler, minus 35 for Fiddler,” he said.
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Fiddler said he does not dispute the result of the process, but is disappointed that given the significant expense of electronic voting machines, “this is what we get.”
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“She won the race. I’m not questioning that. What’s going to happen in November when there’s a presidential race and there’s all sorts of people here. This was a 1,500 person turnout. What’s going to happen when there’s a 20,000 turnout?…”
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[Haggard] said an audit would involve going back through everything in the election process, which is stored in an election audit file. The audit will be supervised by a representative of Election Systems and Software, the company that sells the voting machines, he said.
Some think it is an accident that these wonders of modern technology “malfunction”, and some think it is planned.
How does one tell in today’s world of the opposite is the truth?
What do you think:
(What is a Hacker). So are eVoting machines vulnerable only to CRACKERS or also HACKERS … or are they just built bad … or all of the above?
Can’t a hacker go bad and become a cracker? Why don’t we just call them all democracy thiefs whether it is on purpose or an accident and be done with it?
Either way they are getting big bucks to mess with people’s lives.
Why stop at democracy thieves? Why not just call them what we would call anyone who attempts to overturn the legitimate government of their own country: traitors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmQERqp2oXo
“The audit will be supervised by a representative of Election Systems and Software, the company that sells the voting machines, he said.”
How ridiculous is this? What do they expect from zthat “audit”? The truth??? Hahaha…
Arkansas election in November will go just fine. McCain/Liberman will win by 3% even though all the exit polls showed them losing by 9%. The discrepancy will be attributed to “shy Republicans,” who support the Republican party but don’t like to admit it. Down ticket Republicans will not fare quite so well, losing most of their races by the margins indicated in the exit polls. The mainstream media will ignore the issue.
Oh, and you know what’s REALLY pathetic? This is the GOOD scenario. The bad one includes an attack on Iran, $10 gas, 300% inflation, riots in the streets, martial law, internment camps with 8 million “potential threats to the government,” and NO election. (Oh, and the media STILL not talking about the issue.)
Ain’t life grand?
Wayne County, West Virginia is also succumbing to iVotronic problems. I have a credible report that the IT guy there committed suicide shortly after the problems started surfacing (massive vote-flipping and more); we don’t know if it’s related but Brad, if you’re listening, I’d rather get the story researched than have an exclusive, so e-mail me if you’d like names.