Summary of all Florida county undervotes document ES&S machines unreliable at best

[philb]

A summmary of all Congressional and Statewide races undervotes finds extremely high undervotes only on ES&S machines (except for one county with other issues)

and clearly unreasonably high undervotes on major races in many counties.
www.flcv.com/CtyUVsum.html

In the Sarasota Congressional District 13 race there were disappearing votes and undervotes over 20% in many precincts
www.flcv.com/sarasot6.html

and also high undervotes on ES&S machines in several other Congressional races.

But in the Attorney General's race, there were higher undervotes than in the Jennings Congressional race in several counties on ES&S touch screen machines. Much higher in 3 counties- lots of precincts over 20% and some over 40%. Why bother to vote when 20 to 40% of the votes in some races isn't going to be counted??

www.flcv.com/ESSfAGuv.html

Opinions?
Were the extremely high undervotes deliberate manipulation or glitches from inherently unreliable equipment?

[philb]

1. Is switching an even bigger problem with touch screen machines than the high undervotes?

FL Candidate Votes for Self, Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machine Flips Vote to Opponent!
From today's St. Petersburg Times…

When Cook tried to vote for himself, the machine defaulted to a vote for Taylor. A precinct worker finally moved Cook to a different booth.
Later in the day, Cook said he had other reports of voting machines malfunctioning in similar ways.

The flipping machines used in the Pinellas County, FL election were paperless touch-screens made by Sequoia Voting Systems — the same paperless "Edge" touch-screen systems whose purchase and future use in New Mexico was recently banned in the state in light of a lawsuit where many voters complained of the same type of "vote flipping" on the machines during the 2004 Presidential Election.
Those are also the same machines which lost more than 12,000 votes in Bernalillo County, NM in 2004. ( www.flcv.com/newmex.html ) (www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html)

On the other hand, this is Florida, after all. So, as Pinellas County, FL Supervisor of Elections communications director, Nancy Whitlock says, there's nothing to worry about:
No one else complained, so it is unlikely the problem affected many, if any, other votes, she said.
We feel much better now. It was just "a glitch."
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2530

also www.flcv.com/Florida.html
www.flcv.com/eirstss6.html


And how much of the high undervotes is just programmed
"switching to blank" such as occurred in Broward County Florida in 2004 and Mahoning, Ohio
and etc. in 2004
(www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html
(www.flcv.com/summary.html

And also remember that high undervotes, disappearing votes can be easily hidden by
programming default to "candidate A" on some machines, and other similar ways.

such as is known to have happened in Texas counties in 2004- default to Bush, and in other areas as well in 2004.

[rumpel]

2. deliberate

would be my choice. There is so much circumstantial evidence. But unless we start holding everyone, in the chain of custody accountable (factory to final tabulation) - with criminal undercover investigations in place, we will not find the clues to go after those who masterminded the scheme. However, Every lie will eventually be exposed - someone will trip - somewhere.
No wonder - the AG race sounds a good position to secure.
That % is really high, and considering that most people won't bother to look at anything but the big races, I would presume, they'd think they can, and have, gotten away with it. Voters don't pay much attention to Judges, AG's, Treasurer, SOS's and such races in general.