Touch Screen Voting Flawed

[blue neen]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05047/458149.stm

This is a good article, written by a local reporter. Mercer County had major problems in the presidential election.

It's great to see that the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is still on this.



"Until 2 p.m. yesterday, Jack Gerbel's demonstration of his UniLect touch screen voting system was going smoothly. Then, suddenly, the screen froze up, upresponsive to numerous finger-pokes from Gerbel and a bystander.

"It's worked fine up to this point," Gerbel said, faintly flustered, fiddling with wires.
<snip>

Back in 2000, when folks in Florida were fretting about the unreliatility of paper and punch-card ballots, UniLect and Gerbel, the company president, became overnight darlings.

But last year's presidential election marked a reversal of fortunes for the California-based company. Thanks to the Mercer undervote and a programming error that wiped out 7,000 votes in Carteret County, N.C., election observers are wondering if computerized ballots are any more reliable than paper ones."

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. Machine that ate 4,500 NC votes fails test in PA

This machine ate about 4,500 votes in Carteret County, NC and also caused a 10% undervote rate in Burke County NC.

The Unilect machines have now proven themselves defective in front of witnesses, even though there was no paper ballot.

[blue neen]

5. Another good quote from the article:

"That bad coding, along with some other alleged instances of computer malfunctions and Election Day bumbling, led to a presidential undervote of greater than 7 percent last November. It also led to the resignation of James Bennington, the county's election and registration director."

[berniew1]

7. North Carolina EIRS data

http://www.flcv.com/northcar.html

[berniew1]

8. Pennsylvania TS fraud, dirty tricks, and suppression

Pennsylvania had almost as much problems as Ohio & florida

Pennsylvania TS & DT & Suppr & St. Ballot Default
http://www.flcv.com/mercerco.html
http://www.flcv.com/penndt.html
http://www.flcv.com/philadel.html
http://www.flcv.com/beaverpa.html
http://www.flcv.com/montgomp.html

[tridim]

2. I want a re-vote

I don't even care if it's official.

[rodriguez94]

3. Being one of the lost votes in Carteret County,

First of all I am thrilled to see continued media coverage...God knows the Carteret News Rag won't keep it going.

Secondly, I am curious as to where they got their number...7000 is significantly more than 4438 or 4400 or 3000 votes that were lost....

:kick:

[blue neen]

4. I don't know, but you could e-mail the reporter.

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The Post Gazette has also really stayed on Santorum's case. They did a lot of articles on the cyber-school rip-off of PA taxpayers.

This is really a good newspaper.

[berniew1]

6. Documentation of vote machine fraud & dirty tricks in over 20 states

http://www.flcv.com/ussumall.html

touchscreen fraud documentation for Florida, Ohio, N. Mexico
http://www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html