Vote machine fraud & voter suppression of Dems in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania

[berniew1]

Disenfranchisement of most voters in minority precincts of Mercer County, Pennsylvania

046290 11/02/04, 3:54 PM PST Machine problem Case Avenue School, Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania After caller voted, a screen appeared that showed all of his selections. All of his
candidates appeared except for his vote for a presidential candidate. Caller tried several times to go back and cast another vote for a presidential candidate but could not get his selection to
register on the machine. After speaking with his wife and daughter, caller discovered that they ahd also had the same problem,
060 455 12/27/04 , 6:51 AM PST Machine problem Mercer
County, Pennsylvania Reported via e-mail: I thought you should know about my experiences on Nov. 2. I was a field organizer for the
Kerry/Edwards Campaign in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and
I witnessed severe problems with the voting system there. The
following is a brief summary: 1. Thirteen precincts encountered
complete or partial failures of electronic voting machines.
Many of these machines were deemed "unrepairable" be
technicians, and were out of service all day long. All of them
were in Democratic-majority precincts. Many of them were in
African-American precincts that have historically voted up to
90% in favor of democrats. 2. Of these precincts, many of them
lacked paper-ballot backups, and those that had paper ballots
were unprepared to handle them, often issuing improper or
illegal instructions. 3. Countless numbers of people were told to
go home once, then returned later in the day, hoping that the
system would have been fixed, and were told to go home again.
Some even went to vote three times and were told to go home
each time. There is no way to accurately estimate how many
people simply never got to vote, but it is at least in the
hundreds, if not thousands. 4. Out of 51,800 voters who signed
in to vote on the electronic machines, only 47,700 actual votes
for president were registered. In one highly-democratic precinct,
Farrell 1-2, 289 people signed in to vote, but only 48 of them
actually succeeded in registering votes for president (45 for
Kerry, 3 for Bush). This points to a reasonable estimate that
nearly 4,000 votes in the county were not recorded. Again, it
appears that most of this disenfranchisement occurred in
democratic-majority precincts. Since Pennsylvania was won by
Kerry/Edwards, it has been difficult to get the proper degree of
attention focused on this problem. However, the fact that these
events did not directly affect the outcome of the election should
not distract anyone from the fact that what happened in Mercer
County was a complete disaster and a total disgrace. From their
comments in the local papers, it appears that Mercer County's
election officials fail to understand the gravity of 4000 lost
votes and the disastrous affect that can have on peoples' faith in
democracy. Such accidents cannot be swept under the rug.
Anything short of a complete investigation into this matter
should be unacceptable, and will be seen as unacceptable by the
residents of Mercer County. Any pressure you can bring to bear
to see that a full investigation goes forward will be greatly
appreciated. Please call or write back. I have a stack of signed
complaints that our office collected on Election Day. I am
willing to help in any way to expose all the facts regarding this
important matter.

[Twist_U_Up]

1. of course.....had to get more than 4 mil votes from somewhere

[emlev]

2. So the GOP tried to "pull an Ohio" in PA...

Maybe it would shed some light if we could figure out why they failed there?!

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. Considering that Democrats have a majority of the Mercer County Board of

Commissioners (which also serves as the election board), I'm not too sure that is the case.

[No Exit]

4. Thank you for taking the time to document in detail these

many incidents of election fraud. I have been avidly following your posts for some time. Any of the naysayers who claim there is "no proof", etc., need only read the many glaring cases of voter fraud that are clearly described in many of your posts.