Vote Switching 2006...

[Flabbergasted]

Here's a couple examples I found....

http://www.kfdm.com/engine.pl?station=kfdm&id=17343&template=breakout_dayportvideo.shtml

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....Early voting runs through Friday, November 3rd.

KFDM continues to get complaints from Jefferson County voters who say the electronic voting machines are not registering their votes correctly.

Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican ticket.
Some of those voters including Lamar University professor, Dr. Bruce Drury, believe the problem is a programming error.

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http://oldright.com/pundits/

Stealing Elections Texas Style: Mrs. Blankenship goes out to vote.




By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster


Mrs. Marilyn B. Blankenship noticed what a lovely day it was as she went into vote early at the Renner-Frankford Branch Dallas Public Library at 6400 Frankford Rd. two blocks from her home in Collin County, Texas near Dallas. Mr. Arthur Edwards, the widower of her oldest friend from the 4th grade, accompanied her on the short ride to the Library; he waited in the car for her to finish her brief civic obligation. A native Texan, Mrs. Blankenship appreciated the mild autumn weather. Growing up in Texas, the daughter of two strong parents, had left its mark on her. She had learned self discipline from both of them, along with a strong sense of honesty.

Exercising her civic obligations was something Mrs. Blankenship took very seriously as a Texan and as an American.

After finishing college she had begun teaching school in 1952. Over her career as an educator she had watched the school system of Texas change in troubling ways. Children, she believed, need not just information, they need to acquire inquiring minds so they can think for themselves.

Mrs. Blankenship went into the familiar interior of the Library and picked up her ballot. A long time Republican this time she was determined to vote for change. Taking her ballot she went into the voting booth and inserted her card into the Diebold Voting Machine. Diebold is a local company in Texas; one of their facilities was just down the street.

When she voted for the first couple of candidates the 'X” showed up just where she wanted it. This time she had decided not to vote for any Republicans, even those she had supported in the past. She came to the list of judges. Judges are a partisan position in Texas. Mrs. Blankenship looked at her notes. She had decided that this time her vote would go to the Libertarian candidates and one or two Democrats of whom she approved. One by one she tried to vote for her choice. Each time the machine, moved the vote to the Republican candidate. Mrs. Blankenship exclaimed in exasperation, leaving the booth to complain to one of the several ladies who was working at the polling place. One of the workers came and watched as again the machines changed her votes.

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[babylonsister]

1. As distressing as this is, it's good to know people are more aware

now and reporting some of the discrepancies they're witnessing.

[msongs]

2. the democratic party USA inc did not care about this issue...with some

exceptions, and it may be too late for this election. here at DU we have screamed about it for years, but the party has not had a serious effort to change things.

the machines have to GO!

let us hope our party makes an effort to change the evote system before 2008

msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[jaysunb]

3. I wonder why they only switch to Republican

if it's just a glitch ?????

[goclark]

6. Have they ever flipped in our favor? nt

[demo dutch]

12. Clay Shaw (R) FL demanded machines to be shut down in Palm Beach Gardens (see link)

I'm assuming machines were registering for the Dem opponent. This is one of the closest races in the country. However majority of errors seems to favor Republicans though. Especially in the case of FL gov race, machines are favoring the Repugs.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pvotercomplaint02nov02,0,6529912.story
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/15869924.htm

[angry_chuck]

4. programming error?

A program of such importance should be available in open source for all professionals to examine, compile, test, and affirm its' validity.

A system of keys intrusted to a vast array of admins (US citizen programmers who register in a free gov databasse for validation of the vote program) similar to GPG or MD5 could be implemented with efficiency on Nov. 7ths to come and would ensure the 'programming errors' would cease. What is more transparent and democratic than a directly involved populus ensuring validity in real time?

Side Note: I have a 99' Acura with touch screen navigation and (from 99 and not updated) there are no problems with galvonic response due to repetitive touching. I press map/guide and that is what appears; I touch setup and that is what appears.

NEVER have i pressed map/guide and been presented with setup. NEVER

map/guide = Democrats

setup = Republicans (pun not intended but nonetheless fitting)

[sam sarrha]

7. we are drowning in a Fascist sewer.. this will never hit the news

[TheDebbieDee]

5. What I want to know is..........

What didi the poll staffers do when confronted by the voters?

Did the voters then get paper ballots, or what?

[Mountainman]

8. Are there any machines switching any votes to Democratac?

I would think that if it were a glitch we would see votes goig both ways.

[Rainscents]

9. No... I heard this.

[talk hard]

10. the glitches seem to always favor republicans

[angry_chuck]

11. Record the glitches

These glitches should be reported by all that experience them. someone should make a website that people could submit their accounts to in order to build a data set to prove that these scumpublicans are cheaters. Cheaters in 2000, 2004, and... 2006?

[peacepoet67]

13. Here in Broward County...

The VST's are supposed to record every time they recalibrate the machine in the "iVotronic Maintenance Log". So, if voters are vigilant and check their selections on the review screen and notify the pollworker if there are any descrepancies, the machines glitches will get recorded...er at least if the VST's are doing their job..

[angry_chuck]

14. you can tell

if you vote a straight ticket and it gets reversed at the summary screen. At the same time some people do press the wrong key and are unaware. The way to know exactly is to review the source code of the proprietary vote machines from iVote and VoteNow or whatever the name. You can't hide a fix in programming. Source code cannot lie; sadly the companies that pay for its' creation can and seemingly do. I read that one of those companies claims that you can review the code but you must sign a contract prohibiting your disclosure of any findings under penalty of felony. Funny how that works huh?