Challenge filed to San Diego Election

[Liberty Belle]

WATCHDOG GROUP CHALLENGES ELECTION RESULTS:
CITIZENS QUESTION RELIABILITY OF MACHINES

10 News (8/2/05) SAN DIEGO -- An election watchdog group is asking for a recount of last week's mayoral vote, saying there are serious questions about the reliability of the computer system used to count ballots.

Major concerns are coming from Brina-Rae Schuchman and the Citizens Audit Parallel Election project. Last Tuesday, the non-partisan group camped outside polling booths. After voters cast a vote inside, they were asked to vote a second time outside, swearing the votes they cast were the same.

…According to the group's analysis, their count consistently differed from the registrar's tally, between 2 and 4 percent. These are numbers they consider significant.

…The group says it plans on asking and paying for a partial recount.
"If it comes out equal, terrific, but our numbers indicate that's not a high probability," Schuchman said…The group says if the discrepancy is big enough, it may ask to invalidate the election.

http://www.10news.com/politics/4798740/detail.html

(note: The parallel election was held specifically to check the accuracy of the Diebold GEMS central tabulator.)





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[ronnykmarshall]

1. Poor San Diego.

They just wanna get a mayor in office.

What a mess.

[napi21]

2. I don't mean to rain on this parade, but this kind of a check

doesn't prove anything! I give them credit for trying something, but they'll NEVEr be able to invalidate an election because of this kind of a check!

[cascadiance]

3. This survey by itself isn't going to overturn an election...

But it is serving the same purpose as an "exit poll", albeit not by a known "exit poll" service. If the differences are significant enough, and they've been able to document well enough that they weren't manipulating results of their test on their own, it might be enough to provoke at least a random recount, which would be a good thing in my book.

[Oerdin]

4. All they did was an exit poll.

And we all know exit polls aren't very reliable. A difference of 2%-4% between an exit poll and the real poll is well with in the margin of error for the exit poll.

[rinsd]

5. Do they have a website? Google didn't give me much (nt)