Gaston County NC still under investigation -Diebold runs election

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

This should be national news, that the election results for an entire county were uploaded by the Diebold Technician totally unsupervised and other problems. As of 12/2/2004 the SBOE is still investigating:

11/18/2004 Canvass anomalies NC Gaston County. The three-member Board of Elections discovered about 75 new votes in each contested race during the recount Tuesday. They counted the ballots again Wednesday and confirmed the additional votes. All said they could not explain the change.

11/18/2004 Canvass anomalies NC Gaston County.
The number of recorded votes and voters don't match in more than half of the precincts. The discrepancies raise the possibility that some people could have voted twice, while others might have cast ballots that were not counted. Some ballots also might not have been recorded because people pulled their voting cards too quickly from the voting machine. The Gaston Board of Elections said it was concerned by the findings.


11/13/2004 Machine malfunction NC Gaston County.
About 12,000 votes cast in Gaston County have not yet been counted, elections director Sandra Page said Tuesday. Page said most early and absentee votes were not included in the county's unofficial election results because of a procedural error. The inclusion of the votes in the county's results, expected Tuesday afternoon, could change the outcome of several local and statewide races.

The county pays a technician from Diebold to operate its systems on Election Day. That person was in charge of transferring early votes from electronic storage to the counting computer. Diebold believes the transmission was interrupted, said spokesman David Bear.

11/13/2004 Machine malfunction NC After data was transmitted from the precincts to the central station, it was discovered that there was no data for the Dallas precinct in the GEMS database. Office records from election night, kept by a staff member, showed that information was received, Gaston County Elections Director Sandra Page said. She believes the computer system recorded a successful transmission without receiving any data.

11/13/2004 Machine malfunction NC Gaston County.
The entire Dallas precinct (1209 votes) was omitted from the reported totals.

Thanks to Voters Unite: http://tinyurl.com/5g26t

[Eloriel]

1. Thanks for using TinyUrl

I despise these truncted links DU uses. Just despise them, and they make my work a lot more time-consuming.

:kick:

BTW, did you see this:

********* TX Diebold meeting video ************
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x101052
Link: http://safevoting.org

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. The explanation is probably in the absentee ballots.

People were registered in different counties in the same state. They sent in an absentee ballot in one, and then on election day they were called by the Republican operatives to tell them they still hadn't voted, so they came down and voted again -- not realizing that counties don't coordinate these things very well.

That's my best guess.