Here we go again! Huge numbers of votes are missing from E-voting machine tallies in Florida. Is anyone surprised?
Governor Jeb Bush and the Florida Department of State pledged on Friday to investigate tens of thousands of missing e-votes spread across at least four counties. This will be the second such investigation in only four years. A large percentage of the votes cast in Florida's just completed election came up missing. These are known as “undervotes” where the pick is not recorded on the machine, but all other races have selections. The affected e-voting machines were all manufactured by iVotronic.…
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126 - Jet in Columbus
MCH, as I've maintained many times, if you find soneone bent on judging you, you'll find a hypocrit through and through.
127 - Clavos
Well, it's a felony...
It's a third degree felony; and, as I said before, one more honored in the breach than the observation.
But you're right, it's not nearly as serious as Destertion from Dannelly AFB.
When did the conviction go down? I must have been asleep; I didn't even know he'd been charged.
MCH, as I've maintained many times, if you find soneone bent on judging you, you'll find a hypocrit through and through.
Lotta truth to that, emmy.
So maybe you should quit flinging stones around your crystal palace?
128 - Jet in Columbus
Uh Clavos, the part about hypocrits... I said that
love Jet
129 - Clavos
I know, Jet...
130 - Jet in Columbus
Clavos, that Crystal Palace has one hell of a pulpit though!
131 - Jet in Columbus
Circuit Judge William Gary denied Jennings' petition for an emergency order to test the machines. He also dismissed her attempt to get a look at the software source codes, but permitted that issue to be reopened later, presumably after ES&S attorneys are given a chance to argue the issue.
He gave the state 15 days to respond to Coffey's discovery demands. Coffey said that's better than the 30 to 45 days normally allowed in such cases.
"This is indeed, potentially, a test case for the nation on verifying the reliability of electronic voting systems," Coffey told Gary. "This is a case where the will of the voters of District 13 was defeated through machine error."
He said the undervote in Sarasota County indicates about 18,000 voters could have been disfranchised. Coffey cited statistical evidence that if the machines worked properly, Jennings would have gained 370 to 825 votes " more than enough to overtake Buchanan's final lead.
Coffey said the undervote " the number of ballots with votes cast in races for the U.S. Senate, governor and other races, but not the congressional contest " was about 1 percent to 3 percent in other counties and in mailed ballots. But it was about 13 percent on the touch screens in Sarasota, he said.
Antonacci said the state does not know why the undervote was so large, but that Cobb and Sarasota County Elections Supervisor Kathy Dent can be trusted to run impartial tests on the equipment.
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132 - Clavos
Florida just authorized Parimutuel establishments (racetracks) to operate electronic slot machines.
Who are the majority of customers flocking to the new slots, expertly mastering their operation?
Why, those same seniors who were so confounded by the electronic voting machines!
Go figure...
133 - Jet in Columbus
If you think about it Clavos it's perfectly logical, operating a Florida voting machine is the same as playing the slots.
Thanks for the info
Jet
134 - Jet in Columbus
State officials said late Tuesday they found no major glitches in four spare machines they tested in a mock election.
The test was set up to see if workers using a prepared script on how to vote on each race could duplicate the results found on four real machines used on Election Night.
But there were still no clues about why a high number of voters -- more than 18,000 -- did not have votes recorded in the Buchanan-Jennnings race on Election Day.
Tuesday's test was a warm-up for a more important event Friday, when workers will repeat the test with machines actually used in precincts on Election Day.
But the tests were already being questioned by the Democratic contender in the race, as well as fellow Democrats in the U.S. House -- which looks more and more likely to get involved.
The House has the ultimate power to decide whether or not to seat a member.
`VOTER CONFIDENCE'
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said it may be necessary for Congress to get involved in order ''to restore voter confidence.'' But at an appearance at the voting site Tuesday, Jennings and her attorney, Sam Hirsch, deflected questions about any congressional action.
Buchanan, a car dealer and former head of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, was certified the winner of the 13th Congressional district race last week.
State officials, however, ordered an audit of touch-screen machines used in Sarasota County after results showed that thousands of voters failed to make a choice in the tight race.
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135 - Nancy
Off & on I'm of the opinion most Florida residents over the age of 55 should be barred from voting anyway, on the grounds of incompetency; I can't decide whether it's the voters, a bunch of weirdo machines, or someone trying to pull off some kind of voting fraud. Or maybe Florida's proximity to the Bermuda Triangle.
It's entirely possible there's some kind of underground conspiracy among the retirement communities that no one would vote for any of those categories.
136 - Jet in Columbus
As first glance that might be valid Nancy, but if it's not the machines and it's not the voters, that means someone is manipulating the results.
Or didn't you see "Hacking Democracy?", there's an ad for it on the left sidebar of this article.
Jet
137 - Nancy
Oh, yes; but considering it's FLORIDA, I do think the Bermuda Triangle hypothesis & all those senile seniors have something to do with it.
138 - Clavos
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said it may be necessary for Congress to get involved in order ''to restore voter confidence.
As the article says, there was nothing found wrong with the machines, yet debbie hyphen is still agitating.
Debbie Wasserman-Scultz is my congressman. I didn't vote for her, nor would I ever; she is, as far as I'm concerned, a jerk and an opportunist.
This grandstanding, as in the quote above, is her hallmark.
139 - Clavos
Re my #138:
Forgot to mention Ms. Hyphen's district is nowhere near Sarasota...
140 - Clavos
Nancy,
With all due respect, the "Bermuda Triangle" legend is horseshit...