Shawano Co. Town of 800, Cast 100 Overvotes To bu$h in 2004 Selection

[Dinger]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/568/5445872.html

I hate living in this county. At least my little town is a Democratic haven in a red county.
http://www.elandhappenings.com/

[gizmo1979]

1. Yeah.Voter ID

would help with this example of pure stupidity!How stupid are people when their vote count is 100 higher then the number of people who voted.

[goddess40]

2. you're assuming that it was a mistake

it could have been a little boost for the popular count. The right wing fascists didn't want their leader to have egg on his face again by not winning the popular vote. I don't think it was a conspiracy but I do believe that right wingers took it upon themselves to "help out" where ever they could. A few votes here or there, deny some the right to vote, screw up the absentee ballots, register people and dump the democratic ones... a little here a little there really adds up. No one needed to tell these lowlifes to do these things they were doing it for the "good of the country". Never forget that laws, ethics and morals are only for the rest of us - not the republican fascists.

[gizmo1979]

3. Yes I was assuming.

and that makes an well you know.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. The article also mentioned a Medford tally problem.

More that a quarter of the votes went missing. I hadn't heard of that one. Dit it by any chance favor Bush?

Some people seem to want to conclude that just because all the little "glitches" (I hate that word) favor bush, there must be some larceny involved. I prefer to think that thes is God's way of showing that bush is the Chosen candidate.

[sybylla]

5. Not known who the mistake favored but 600 votes were not counted

The voting machine company didn't set the ballot scanning machine up properly before election day so it didn't count any straight ticket votes.

You can find more in this archived article:
http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/mnhlocal/285285292773470.shtml

I don't know if they ever recounted just to see how it should have come out for the record or if, once the vote is certified, the ballots are destroyed and we'll never know.

Isn't that special?

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I just knew you'd have the information.

Thanks, Sybylla.
Somebody oughtta check into what happened, though. Just for the record. And then, if they burned the evidence, put enough heat on so they don't ever do that again.

Edited to add:

I noticed that the error was created by ES&S programmers, that a Democratic-leaning firm turned it up, and that it seems to have gotten virtually no coverage in my local paper. At least I don't remember the story, and I somehow think I would have recalled seeing it.

[sybylla]

7. It's a mark of being on the internet too much, I think

This made the paper in Wausau and Marshfield as well as a few local weeklies when it first came out but none of them followed up on it. It's such a small number that no one seemed to care more than 50 miles or so outside of Medford.

I'll poke around and see what I can dig up on who would have benefited, etc.

Its funny that the voter database companies are starting to turn up errors like this one and the one in Shawano county that was reported last week, yet we never heard of such errors before companies like ES&S got involved in stealing our vote.

[dragonlady]

8. The ballots are supposed to be kept

for (I believe) 22 months, according to federal law. I don't have the citation but that's what the Milwaukee County election people told me once.

[sybylla]

9. Thanks, Dragonlady

If that's the case, I'll try to contact the Medford and Taylor County Clerks to see what's up.