Part Two: Will Your Vote Count? (WISH-TV investigation on voting machines)

[IndianaGreen]

Part 1 was posted in LBN yesterday.

An I-Team 8 Investigation
Part Two: Will Your Vote Count?

By Rick Dawson and Loni Smith McKown
I-Team 8

Election returns used to be tallied late into the night. Today, we want instant results. But at what cost?

I-Team 8's investigation reveals serious concerns about accuracy, reliability and security of modern voting technology. It leads to a question at the very heart of democracy: Will our votes count?

“Those of us who work with computing are perhaps most aware of the potential failures and the manipulations of the systems,” said Eugene Spafford, Purdue computer expert.

The first time Marion County's optical-scan machines were used in a general election, but it still took eight weeks to find out who won. “They're far more accurate because you don't have human beings making tallies,” said Doris Anne Sadler, Marion County clerk.

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1649813&nav=0Ra6KtFX

[TXvote]

1. Easy Activism

I believe electronic discrepencies are one of the top two priorities for a win in November. The best site I haev found to keep me alerted and active on this issue is:

www.verifiedvoting.org

Thanks for the coverage.
Peace,
Teresa

[IndianaGreen]

2. Here is the DU link to Part 1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=368662

[AndyTiedye]

3. Our country is being stolen by such incompetent thieves

> We compared results. Something happened when totaling the results from
> the five machines. One computer counted incorrectly, leading to a
> disparity of ten votes for one candidate.

They're so rigged that they can't even get them to count right
in a demo for the press?!?

[blackcat77]

4. Another Indianapolis station had the same story

Seems that there's no way they're going to slip unverifyable voting under the radar.

Thank God!