There is one precinct in Ohio where the states own reports lists 638 votes cast, 260 for Kerry and 4,200 for Bush, the totals for congressional candidates in that precinct match the 638 total or thereabouts.
It is either a typo or very very scary.
I am very mistrustful of the electronic voting machines, the company is not very good at security and the fact that discrepancies have been found in a lot of less important elections using them is starting to bother me. In other countries that use the same machines from the same suppliers they also print off a paper confirmation ballot that is then put in the ballot box, the electronic count is used but if there are questions the paper ballots are recounted.
This is what was advised in Fla and Ohio but was not done. Don't know why not. As it is blackboxvoting.org are requesting copies of all system, voting and audit logs from the machines under the freedom of information act. But this could take us to christmas to figure out.
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Date: 2004-11-05 05:49 am (UTC)It is either a typo or very very scary.
I am very mistrustful of the electronic voting machines, the company is not very good at security and the fact that discrepancies have been found in a lot of less important elections using them is starting to bother me. In other countries that use the same machines from the same suppliers they also print off a paper confirmation ballot that is then put in the ballot box, the electronic count is used but if there are questions the paper ballots are recounted.
This is what was advised in Fla and Ohio but was not done. Don't know why not. As it is blackboxvoting.org are requesting copies of all system, voting and audit logs from the machines under the freedom of information act. But this could take us to christmas to figure out.