ABC: Report: Six States, Including NY and NJ at 'High Risk' for Vote Machine Malfunction

[mod mom]

Could Super Tuesday Be Super Chaos?
Report: Six States, Including N.Y. and N.J., at 'High Risk' for Vote Machine Malfunctions

(The Associated Press)
By MARCUS BARAM
Feb. 5, 2008

It's been more than seven long years since the Florida recount that upended the 2000 presidential election, with its mangled punch cards, "hanging chads" and other tabulation problems.

Since then, dozens of states have spent millions of dollars to purchase electronic voting machines and to put in places ways to verify votes. But was all that money worth it?

Problems have persisted in almost every federal election since 2000. Just two weeks ago, Republican primary voters in Horry County, S.C., were turned away from some precincts where paperless electronic machines weren't working.

As voters head to the polls today to participate in the most crowded primary day in history, with the most delegates at stake and a tightening Democratic contest, some are concerned that there could be chaos at the polling booths with malfunctioning machines and disputed results.

Six states, including New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Arkansas, Delaware and Tennessee, are "considered at high risk for having election results affected by machine malfunction or tampering," according to a report by Common Cause and the Verified Voting Foundation, nonprofit groups committed to accountable politics.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4240895&page=1

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Oh, so NOW the MSM covers this issue. How about all the chaos at polling booths during the last two

elections????

Well, better late to the table than never, I guess.

[mod mom]

3. Maybe they've learned their lesson on how much damage a fraudulent election can cause.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. Well, I seriously doubt that, since their tax cut asses are well protected after the last POTUS

election.

Nah, they'll use it as a wedge against the Democrats, like they do with just about everything.

I'm sure the R's are going to have perfectly tabulated votes on their side. :eyes:

[Fredda Weinberg]

2. Our levers in NY suck n/t

[Cassandra]

4. Mine are usually fine.

At least, they are hard to rig in quantity.

[Fredda Weinberg]

7. Nah, much simpler to put the machines you know don't work in minority 'hoods n/t

[Cassandra]

9. Well, that they've always done.

For me, living near Gracie Mansion means my machines always work (and the garbage gets picked up pretty well, too).

[Peace Patriot]

6. See my analysis of this screwball report

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=496591&mesg_id=496591

They put New York's old reliable, and KNOWABLE, lever voting machine system in the same category--"High" risk--as Georgia and South Carolina (e-voting by rightwing corporations, with "trade secret" code and no paper trail)--cuz I guess they want New York to get bilked and defrauded by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, like the rest of us. Common Cause has sided with the corrupt on this issue for some time. I'm surprised at Verified Voting, though. I thought they were a cut above CC.

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. You mean your screwball analysis of our paperless system. Old reliable

for the party machine ... that knows how to abuse 'em. You are really trying to be part of the problem, aren't you?

[Bill Bored]

10. No more abusable than anything else. Less so in fact.

What good are paper ballots if no one counts them?

By advocating for ballot scanners without a proper manual audit protocol, you and the rest of your ilk are putting the cart before the horse.