Venango Co. Election Director Calls Into 'Malloy Show' on Probs With E-Voting System

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Republican Election Director Calls Into 'Malloy Show' on Probs With PA County's E-Voting Systems
Venango County's Craig Adams says candidates reported to have received ZERO votes on ES&S voting machines in 2008 election...

Last week we wrote about Venango County, PA's landmark independent forensic audit of their 100% unverifiable ES&S iVotronic touch-screen voting machines. The heavily-Republican county will be moving to paper ballots this November, as their systems are now being examined by computer scientists from Pittsburgh College following what Marybeth Kuznik of the non-partisan Election Integrity group VotePA.us described to us as "numerous reports of vote-flipping, candidates missing from screens, write-ins missing, and high undervote rates in their May 17 Primary."

In our coverage last week, we highlighted the comments of Venango's Republican Election Director Craig Adams who asked at a presser, as the examination finally got underway following months of legal wrangling and opposition, "What is a vote worth?"

"If the vote is counted it is priceless," he continued. "If it is not counted, I don't care what it costs. Let's get a right."

On Friday night, as I was guest hosting the nationally-syndicated Mike Malloy Show last week, Adams was kind enough to call in to the show. (Audio posted at link below.) We didn't know we'd hear from him, but when he called in I was delighted to take his call, as he had more information to share on what had led to his Election Board --- currently comprised of two Republicans and one Democrat --- fighting together to move to paper ballots, and to see their machines independently examined.

"It started with an election in 2008 when the machines were basically showing a large number of undervotes," he explained. "And then there were candidates for positions in the county and they had zero votes, but there was like 250 or 260 undervotes..."

"Wait a minute," I interrupted. "There were people who had zero votes on the ballot? Is that normal?," I asked.

"No. No, it is not normal," he responded bluntly. "And so, ya know, that was a red flag"...


FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8834

[livetohike]

1. We use the same machines in our county (Jefferson)

My husband and I work at our local polling place - he's the Judge of Elections. We have a training meeting next week. I can't wait to ask about the problems.

[demodonkey]

3. I bet you got stonewalled, or they told you nothing is wrong...

...time after time after time this is what pollworkers and voters in Pennsylvania are told. The machines are fine. Yeah, right.

Heads are in the sand all over the Commonwealth.

These machines are now 6 years old, and assuming they aren't malfunctioning already (there's no way to know, really) they have a useful life expectancy of 7-10. They are computers, after all!

Please pay attention, people. Please.

[appleannie1]

2. I hope Venango County does go back to paper. I don't trust machines that do not print out copies.

Plus, I have had to clear and re-vote on those darn touch screens and so has my husband.