Article on Widespread Ballot-Counting Problems

[ClintCooper2003]

link: http://verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=5452

Election Study Finds Widespread Ballot-Counting Problems

by Thomas Hargrove, newsobserver.com (SH)
December 23rd, 2004


A review of election results in a 10-county sampling revealed more than 12,000 ballots that failed to record a vote for president, almost one in every 10 ballots cast. The unofficial audit by Scripps Howard News Service uncovered malfunctioning voting machines, improperly designed ballots and poor accounting procedures around the nation.
The review of certified election returns led authorities to restore 662 votes for president in Louisiana and West Virginia that had been miscounted in easily detectable errors made by local officials.

But most of the ballots discovered missing in the study will remain lost.

"I'm so upset over this that I can't sleep," said Sandy Campbell, clerk of Pike County, Ark., upon learning that a damaged optical scanning machine permanently lost nearly 700 votes. "We had no idea this had happened. But I'll know what to look for in the future. We'll try never to let this happen again."

[jimfromthebronx10469]

1. we will try to NEVER let this happen again....

is she crazy..this kind of shit has gone on 4 years now.the dems wont win another presidential election until the e-voting fraud is uncovered and asses end up in jail.....thank you:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[shiina]

2. from this article, REVOTE for ag commissioner due to error

<snip> Other problems uncovered in this study found much larger numbers of miscounted votes that cannot be corrected or recovered. The largest discrepancy occurred in Carteret County, N.C., where a programming error in a 10-year-old touch-screen voting machine erased 4,439 ballots.

"It was the most elementary error," said Edward Pond, chairman of the Carteret County Elections Board. "The machine was set so that it had a vote capacity of only 3,005 votes. If I hadn't been there watching the tally, I don't know when we would have noticed this."

Pond said his board plans to "send a letter of apology to each of these voters" and to invite them to a new election Jan. 11 to vote for North Carolina's agriculture commissioner, which is still undecided because of the error. <snip>

So, let me get this right. You have a revote for NC's agriculture commissioner because of one error, but you don't do anything for president of the US based on dozens and dozens of errors, glitches, malfunctions, illegal activities, etc. Makes sense.

[starmaker]

5. nc woooos

three more races have yet to be certified

[intheflow]

3. "I'm so upset... I can't sleep," said...clerk of Pine County., Arkansas

This is hopeful. A conscience in Arkansas. O8)

[starmaker]

4. carteret co nc

now the whole state will have to vote again

100 counties with every way to vote possible

and the board of elections in nc does not post
total # of voters