FL-13 Election Fraud Update: Christine Jennings is still fighting the good fight

[Herman Munster]

http://www.christinejenningsforcongress.com/

A voting machine manufacturer warned state elections officials and Sarasota County’s Supervisor of Election of an “issue” with their equipment months before the disputed Nov. 7 election but no changes were made, a new memo shows.

Even though Election Systems & Software recommended in the August 15 memo that all of its Florida customers — including Sarasota County — train poll workers and voters to expect slow responses on the touchscreen voting machines when their selections were made, Sarasota Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent said the state determined it was too close to the election to make any changes. Dent also said the instructions on how to use the iVotronic machines at polling sites seemed to cover what ES&S recommended.

In addition, ES&S’ promised fixes for the problem never were made available before the Nov. 7 election, state officials said.

Democrat Christine Jennings’ attorney Sam Hirsch said the new memo is significant to Jennings’ case for a new election for two key reasons. First, it shows that ES&S acknowledged problems with the equipment despite assurances that there were no problems, Hirsch said.

Secondly, Hirsch said it shows the state, ES&S and Dent have withheld information his team requested months ago. Jennings’ legal team requested copies of all correspondence between Dent and ES&S, but the memo only became public after surfacing on an Internet site weeks ago, Hirsch said.

“How could we not have gotten this?” Hirsch asked.

What’s troublesome, Hirsch said, is that ES&S said they would need to install a software patch to fix the problem, yet there never was any patch submitted to the state before the now controversial Nov. 7 election.