I’ve been accumulating anecdotes of voting issues for later tonight when I’ll have some time to read them more carefully, but this one is too striking to let sit:
Franklin County’s unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry (news – web sites)’s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct…
Hmm … a 136,000 vote Bush lead / (4258 – 638 = 3620) = 37 and change.
How many precincts were using this equipment? 37 machines with a similar flaw in similar magnitude changes everything, and once provisional ballots are considered the number probably doesn’t need to be anywhere near as large.
I swore I wasn’t going to let my tin-foil hat point in this direction, but this really needs some explanation.
A question I’ve been asking a lot lately is: Why don’t we have someone publicly accounting for why it’s OK that electronic voting machines aren’t auditable? More on that later …
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