ELECTRONIC ELECTION CONTEST IN TX BY CONSERVATIVE GOP SUPREME CT JUSTICE!

[BradBlog]

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN TX SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO FILE ELECTION CONTEST TODAY!
Former Judge Finds March 7th Texas Primary Results Fraught With 'Absolutely Egregious' Electronic Voting Machine Errors!
May Lead to First Independent Examination of Electronic Machines Made by Hart InterCivic and ES&S!

As The BRAD BLOG reported last week, a Conservative Republican former Texas Supreme Court Justice had been considering an Election Contest after electronic voting machine problems and inexplicable tallies plagued the first-in-the-nation March 7th primary in the Lone Star State.

Steve Smith -- who ran for election to the state Supreme Court, Place 2, in the Republican primary against an opponent backed by both Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry and the Bush family -- will be filing an official Election Contest this afternoon in Travis County District Court, The BRAD BLOG has learned.

Since our previous report, the Smith for Supreme Court campaign has been examining election tallies around the state and report that they continue to find anomolies in virtually every county they look into.

"The more research we do, the more irregularities we find," campaign manager David Rogers told The BRAD BLOG this morning.

The problems are being found on machines made by both Hart InterCivic and Election Systems and Software, Inc. (ES&S) -- the two major Electronic Voting Machine vendors supplying the state of Texas.

Rogers says the campaign plans to file the Contest before 5pm (CT) today. The Contest (to be posted in full here when available) will outline some of the many problems they have found so far including counties "where there were more votes than voters."

They hope the Election Contest may allow, for the first time, a closer examination of both the Hart InterCivic and ES&S electronic voting machines used in Texas elections, as well as elsewhere around the country.

An earlier statement from the campaign had detailed a number of the campaign's initial findings including several mysterious totals in Smith's home county of Tarrant where officials admit some 100,000 votes were incorrectly added to the reported results on Election Night.

Smith had outperformed his statewide average in Tarrant County during the 2004 Election by 13%, but this year, his campaign reports, he underperformed the statewide results by 23%. One other such puzzling number reported previously by Smith's campaign:

Winkler County, which went for Smith by margins of 260-92 (74%) and 468-249 (65%) in the 2002 and 2004 elections, went against Smith by an unbelievable 0-273 (100%) margin. Governor Perry received only 83% of the vote in Winkler County, and no other contested candidate topped 80%. The propositions on the ballot topped out at 93%.

Says Rogers, "We are contesting the state as a whole, but looking at specific larger counties where there problems and a few of the smaller counties where the mistakes were absolutely egregious." ...

FULL STORY, LINKS, MANY MORE DETAILS...
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002615.htm

[UrbScotty]

1. First to K&R (nt)

[ixion]

2. 2nd to K&R

:woohoo:

[liam_laddie]

3. Kicked, recommended

Eeyahooooooo! :kick:

[blm]

4. Keep this info up there.

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[kster]

5. K&R.....nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. 5

:bounce:

keepin it kicked!

:woohoo:

[buddysmellgood]

7. Ohhhh, I see. It's a problem because it was a Republican primary.

[the other one]

9. Whatever it takes, eh?

[Rex]

17. Yup

It's only a problem if it hurts the real people (GOP). Others need not apply.

[loudsue]

25. You've got that right, buddysmellgood. Now we'll see how much

"republicans" in general start liking all this secrecy in our voting tabulations.

I've said all along: THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN PROBLEM; IT'S AN AMERICAN PROBLEM. It sucks. If we're going to be a Democracy, we need to start acting like one REGARDLESS of the consequences.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Zhade]

8. K/R

Hope they remember this next time a NON-REPUBLICAN is fucked over.

[drm604]

10. K&R

This is excellent. Maybe this will finally wake some people up.

[MagickMuffin]

11. Keep up the Great Work, Brad ;-0

Here's an article from a post on yesterday's forum. It's interesting that Texas SOS, believes all the voter irregularities is only human errors!

No never, we could never fault the machines, Machines Are Perfect! Machines can never make mistakes.:eyes:

Who are they kidding? :crazy:

In Texas, a candidate for the state Supreme Court will contest the March 7 primary because of what he calls widespread problems using new machines.

In Fort Worth, an initial ballot count showed about 150,000 votes even though there were only one-third that many voters, says David Rogers, campaign manager for the candidate, Steve Smith. And in San Angelo, balky new equipment and a close local race led to a recount that was halted after it appeared some votes were missing.

A spokesman for the secretary of state's office, Scott Haywood, says human factors accounted for any glitches, and they have been fixed. "Anytime you are using a new system, officials have to get used to it," he says. "Our biggest focus now is to increase training."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-27-voting-machines_x.htm

"Our biggest focus now is to increase training." Scott Haywood

You would have thought that they would have already trained people after all this isn't the first election with these machines.

Don't you think that if you're spending Millions of Dollars that the company would have provided seminars to train every public official how to run an election using this new technology?
The reason this wasn't done speaks volumes of how incompetent these people who are in charge of our Democracy are not concern with the integrity of how our votes are counted. It doesn't fit into the game plan.

[melissinha]

12. Goes to show ya... if you aren't a Bush favorite, you get screwed

If incidents like this bring the isseu to a forefront, I'm all for them... I kinda feel bad for the guy, cause it looks like he should have won the primary even if he's a republican thats not fair.

[donkeyotay]

13. Wonder if Bugman's win could be tainted

AUSTIN, March 7 -- Rep. Tom DeLay, facing an unusual four-way Republican primary, won the party's nomination Tuesday, calling his victory a rejection by voters of "the politics of personal destruction."
. . .
(With 100 percent of the 216 precincts reporting in congressional District 22, which includes all of Fort Bend County and part of three other Houston-area counties, DeLay had 62 percent of the votes, allowing him to win the GOP nomination outright without a runoff. His closest GOP opponent, Tom Campbell, had 30 percent, followed by Mike Fjetland with 4.7 percent and Pat Baig with 3.3 percent.)
. . .
DeLay and Lampson begin the battle for the November general election virtually tied for cash on hand. According to campaign finance reports filed in mid-February, DeLay had $1.3 million in the bank to Lampson's $1.4 million. According to a Houston Chronicle poll taken in early January, Lampson also had a lead over DeLay of eight percentage points.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/08/AR2006030800469.html

[donkeyotay]

16. This must pertain to his democratic opponent, not the primary

Campbell would be the closest with 30% to Bugman's 62%. Damn! It's just so hard for me to understand how they'd want to return him to power, especially when they're going to have to go through the whole embarrassment again if he's convicted or has more charges brought. He should be a real credit to the party this fall.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

:kick:

[maseman]

15. KICK KICK KICK

:kick:

[WhiteTara]

18. kick it high

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

[happydreams]

19. This could be the thing that takes these bastards down!!

If electronic voting is halted in enough places the Repuke minority will be unable to cheat their way into office as easily. Granted there are other ways of stealing elections, but it won't be as easy as using a system with no paper trail.

[Judi Lynn]

20. Wow! Why not a kick, after all?

[Canuckistanian]

21. Whoopsie

Fucked the wrong guys this time.....

[tom_paine]

22. K & R

[bleever]

23. K&R, and thanks. nt

[Rainscents]

24. This is very interesting....

When there's problems in 2000, 2002 and 2004, no one wanted to do shit about it, however, now, it's one of their own (Republican), it's finally getting contested. I'm glad this is finally getting big coverage and getting investigated!

[Wilms]

26. K&R n/t

[fearnobush]

27. One word, Conservative.

I smell a rat here and I'll bet they will say they fixed the problem, without really fixing it but look as if they did to the media, the media will tow there line and the votes will be stolen anyway in November.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

28. Three words: Not a NeoCon.

[file83]

29. The Neo-Cons make Conservatives look like Democrats!

Tongue in Cheek, of course. ;-)

[0007]

31. Couldn't smell worse.

[suziedemocrat]

33. Not all Republicans are part of the BFEE! They have infighting ya' know.

[Pacifist Patriot]

35. Herein may lie our republic's salvation...

I've been wondering for a long time if the primary season is what will finally get Republicans riled about election "irregularities." When traditional / mainstream Republicans get their asses kicked in the primary by neocons maybe the rank and file will see the light.

[malaise]

30. Hahahahhahha

Any condemnation of these machines is good but this is priceless

[suziedemocrat]

32. Maybe if a Republican picks up the fight it will finally be more than

a "conspiracy theory."

[stlsaxman]

34. Morning kick!

[AzDar]

36. kick.

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. Sounds like he learned from Bush v. Gore

"Says Rogers, "We are contesting the state as a whole, but looking at specific larger counties where there problems and a few of the smaller counties where the mistakes were absolutely egregious." ..."

[Nothing Without Hope]

38. K & R. How much of this story is being seen by the public in Texas and

elsewhere?

The Bushies must be supremely confident to play their hand so "egregiously," and packing the TX state supreme court must be a very high priority for them.