Then there’s North Carolina. And the Finns. Next Wednesday should be an exciting news day what with the wrong candidate winning and all. If you can’t win fairly…
This is just getting worse and worse. Now it’s happening in Texas. (And in MO, if you read to the end of the article). And the vaunted “thousands of attorneys” from the Obama campaign and the DNC are still nowhere to be found.
With every incident so far reported of touch-screen vote-flipping during early voting in this year’s general election — from county to county in WV and in Nashville, TN) — it’s been the ES&S iVotronic touch-screen machine that has failed, flipping votes from one candidate to another not chosen by the voter. In every instance [see update below], it’s been an attempted Democratic vote, flipped to a Republican, or another party.
These are the same machines that lost 18,000 votes in Democratic-leaning Sarasota County in the 2006 U.S. House Race for Katherine Harris’ old seat. The Democrat, Christine Jennings, was declared the loser to Republican Vern Buchanan (whose own wife had trouble voting for him that day), by just 369 votes. Several academic studies, and even the GAO, have been unable to rule out either tampering or hardware/software error for the disappeared 18,000 votes.
As we wrote earlier this week, after there was finally one report of a vote flipping from Democratic to Republican in TN (a very rare instance, btw), these machines need to be taken out of service now, impounded and quarantined immediately, and every voter needs to be given a paper ballot where these machines are currently being used. Voters who have such problems need to inform other voters waiting in line which machine should not be used (and we offer other tips below, as well).
[Update: The rare vote-flip from Republican to Democratic now seems to have been a hoax carried out by local Republicans, according to a TN election integrity activist who did some digging and reporting. Details here…]
And then there’s North Carolina.
Here’s what to do if it happens to you.
#75 – ‘dro
>>#71 No.
Uh. #71 is your own message. Are you talking to yourself?
In any case, there’s no debate (at least among double-digit+ IQ folks) that the design of the FL ballot was seriously flawed, and led to a lot of people voting for Paddy O’Buchanan instead of Al Gore.
Between that and Miss Harris’s illegal “scrubbing” of the voter roles (culminating in Poppy’s Supreme Court bailing out Junior), it’s clear that Dumbya stole the 2000 election.
That’s his legacy. Along with doubling the national debt, starting a protracted and misbegotten war, and not being able to speak English with the same facility as the average illegal alien.
Mission Accomplished!!