more voting issues...a default to George Bush funchtion?????? WTF???

[greenbriar]

In the below references, "EIRS" refers to the Election Incident Reporting System, a database compiled by a consortium of 60 non-partisan fair election watchdog groups.


http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041019/REPOSITORY/410190316/1037/NEWS04


http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe

This link provides several links to EIRS reports from the 2004 election in several states, including hundreds of incident reports in the controversy-ridden states of Florida and Ohio. Incidents directed at Democratic voters included:


Could not override "Default to George Bush" function on touch-screen voting machines
Had to try several times to override "Default to George Bush" function on touch-screen voting machines
Had to call election workers over to help before "Default to George Bush" function could be overridden on touch-screen voting machines
Fake Kerry fliers posted on doors of registered Democrats providing wrong precinct information
Phone calls made to registered Democrats informing them of changed precinct locations, when there were no changes. Some callers refused to identify themselves, some identified themselves as GOP reps, and when voters called GOP headquarters to complain of the incident, they were again falsely directed to the wrong precinct address, sometimes as far as 60 miles away
Precinct locations were changed by election commission without notice to the precincts' registered voters (in at least one incident, a Republican monitor threatened to have voters thrown out of the polls if they announced the new location)
Phone calls made to registered Democratic voters to inform them that the date for Kerry voters was changed to November 3rd (also occurred with fliers in some black neighborhoods)
Some voters who had no interest in voting for a presidential candidate noticed that the "George W. Bush" box was automatically checked (see "Default to George Bush" function mentioned above)

And all that is just from the 2004 election. If were to compile a list of election fraud incidents perpetrated by the GOP upon Democratic voters over several other elections, it would fill pages and pages, as would its counterpart.

[texpatriot2004]

1. Selection 2004! I worked the polls that "election" day in 2004

it was horrid and it left a really bad taste in my mouth as far as American "Democracy" is concerned.

[ninkasi]

2. Strange, isn't it

that all of the illegal activities, dirty tricks, and computer "glitches" seem to favor the Republican party? I would have thought that such things would be much more balanced, but no, Republicans are always the beneficiaries of these actions.

[texpatriot2004]

5. If the "glitches" etc. were truly errors it would be random and

therefore all errors would not favor the Rethugs.

[Eric J in MN]

3. I don't see what you're quoting at either link. NT

NT

[seabeyond]

4. a lot of south and Southwest texas and new mexico had this

"phenomenon"

i have been yelling about it since 2004

[texpatriot2004]

6. I was in Texas now NM. I know it was a problem in 2004...

keep yelling.

[texpatriot2004]

7. K & R for Transparent Democracy nm