I’m sorry if there are some of you who would rather “move on”. I’ll err on the side of accurately counting “the will of the people in a Democracy”. If, like so many of the wingnuts out there, you’d rather not examine such matters accurately (and I can hardly blame the wingnuts), you are welcome to read other blogs more likely to repeat to you what you wish to hear.
To that end, there are continuing questions about the results in Ohio, New Mexico, and yes – Florida. Since Democracy demands both vigilance and an accurate reflection of the will of the people, I will do my best to stay on top of these matters as so many of your Emails have requested of me. I hope to have more information for you about those states later today.
In the meantime, here’s a report just released by AP concerning at least 4,500 votes that Election Officials admit were lost in North Carolina in just one county due to inaccurate information provided by the makers of the E-Voting machine in use there:
Expecting the greater capacity, the county used only one unit during the early voting period. “If we had known, we would have had the units to handle the votes,” said Sue Verdon, secretary of the county election board.
Officials said 3,005 early votes were stored, but 4,530 were lost.
[UPDATE]: The link to the AP story is now dead. Here’s another one with the same info.
That was just one county in North Carolina. Pay attention…
UPDATE: More problems with UniLect machines now reported! This time in Ohio where they used thousands of UniLect machines:
Keith Jenkins, director of the county’s computer department, agreed that it was a software malfunction and said repeated calls to UniLect Corp., the company that sold the machines to the county in 2001, failed to resolve the problem.
Thanks for posting that squib about NC; there were not a lot of problems statewide. In my part of the state, the optical reader machines were fine. Kerry won big in the middle region, the Triad and Triangle areas. These e-vote machines are just unbelievable. The crapsters at UniLect Corp and Diebold need to be investigated.
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