Topic: If there's an election...
Lynann's photo
Thu 09/25/08 10:29 PM
Don't worry...it's sure to be conducted fairly. After all we learned our lesson after the FL debacle right?

Maybe not so much.

The two states whose electoral votes decided the presidential races in 2000 (Florida) and 2004 (Ohio) are provoking anxiety this time around, also. In Palm Beach County, Fla. (home of the "butterfly ballot" in 2000), 3,478 optical-scan votes disappeared between primary-night counting on Aug. 26 and the official recount a few days later (flipping the outcome of at least one race). [Palm Beach Post, 9-2-08]

Also in August, Ohio officials claimed that they had fixed a software-logic tabulating error in Premier Election Systems machines used in some counties (but, according to a spokesman for Premier, a company formerly known as Diebold, that error had been present for the last 10 years). [Washington Post (blogs), 8-21-08]

(Also in August, the Ohio secretary of state ordered election officials to end the practice of taking voting machines home at night during election season "for safekeeping," even though such "sleepovers" had been encouraged in order to protect the machines from tampering.

Quikstepper's photo
Fri 09/26/08 08:40 AM
This stuff has been going on for years.

I really don't like the way they use it for political reasons.

BTW... Bush DID win Fla no matter what DEMS say.

That whole thing was an embarrassment not to mention costly.