This is how they plan on STEALING the next election

[artr2]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7940382.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Posted on Thu, Feb. 12, 2004



State: Touchscreen ballots don't have to be recounted

BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Department of State has notified elections supervisors that touchscreen ballots don't have to be included during manual recounts because there is no question about how voters intended to vote.

While touchscreen ballot images can be printed, there is no need and elections supervisors aren't authorized to do so, Division of Elections Director Ed Kast wrote in a letter to Pasco County Supervisor of Elections Kurt Browning.

Florida law requires a manual recount of overvotes where too many candidates were chosen, and undervotes where no candidate was chosen in elections where the margin of victory is one-quarter of one percent of the vote.

But because the law states that the purpose of a recount is to determine whether there was a "clear indication on the ballot that the voter has made a definite choice," there is no need to review touchscreen ballots, Ed Kast, director of the Division of Elections.

It is impossible to vote for too many candidates on a touchscreen ballot, and Kast said a "review of undervotes cannot result in a determination of voter intent as required by" Florida law.

Browning asked for the opinion after a Broward County Republican Ellyn Bogdanoff won a seat in the state House by 12 votes, a margin that triggered an automatic recount.

He said the election raised the question of whether paper images needed to be produced for the 134 undervotes in that race. He also said he supports Kast's opinion.

"There are no ballots to count, there are no ballots to recount," Browning said.
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"We're working very hard to educate the voters, to build the comfort level and to get rid of some of the myths out there," Hood said. "I think these things are raised for political purposes and distractions. Any effort to undermine that public confidence is a tactic that is wrong and I believe it weakens our democracy by causing voters to doubt if their vote has been counted."



We are all fucking fools if we don't vote by absentee the next election!

[boobooday]

1. This is what scares me the most about the next election

I have no doubt Bush is going to lose, but these guys will obviously stop at nothing.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

Jeanette

[KT2000]

2. Voting Absentee

is a great idea for all Democrats in the country.

[SoCalDem]

3. and soon the whole "recount" issue will be history

as more and more places switch to touchscreen..

We will never again know whom we elected..(if we ever really did)..

We might as well be voting on an etch-a-sketch :(

[benddem]

4. If everyone votes absentee

We will just hear of boxes of ballots found in rented storage lockers 30 years from now.:eyes:

[kerouac]

5. Plus the Military ballots..

I posted yesterday about this.

They're going to submit tens of thousands of absentee military ballots from the 200,000+ soldiers out of the country to all the borderline states and win them all. Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, you name it. We can't do anything about it because we'd have to track down every soldier to see how they voted.

[einniv]

6. Wow this guy is really pretty dumb even for a politician!

"I believe it weakens our democracy by causing voters to doubt if their vote has been counted"

Bingo!!! That is exactly why we need to have 100% trust in the reliability of the machines!

""We're working very hard to educate the voters"

Educate the voters? You moron. It is the programmers and computer security experts that are raising the questions in the first place!

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