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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 07:08 PM
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Sequoia machines report inaccurate totals in NJ
Edited on Wed Feb-20-08 07:16 PM by Stevepol


Post-Super Tuesday Canvass Reveals Discrepancies Between Internal Printouts and Memory Cartridges on DRE Systems in Five Separate Counties

Same 'Tamperproof' Machines Recently Hacked by Princeton University Professor, Also Failed to Start Up Properly on Election Day...

Blogged by John Gideon (for BradBlog)

The Newark Star-Ledger is reporting that New Jersey election officials have found a discrepancy in the state's Primary Election results as reported on the Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines used on Super Tuesday. Voter totals reported by the internal paper tapes on their Sequoia AVC Advantage DRE in a number of counties are failing to match up with totals found on the memory cartridges, used for both ballot definition and results storage, on the same machines, according to the report today...

As Union County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi tried to verify returns in this month's historic presidential primary, she kept coming up with errors for a handful of voting machines.

The numbers from the cartridges that print out vote tallies and the paper-tape backup within the machine didn't match. Rajoppi asked her colleagues in other counties to perform the same test, and similar problems were found in voting machines for Bergen, Gloucester, Middlesex and Ocean counties.

snip . . .

The Star-Ledger today goes on to report some of the details on the latest failures now emerging in New Jersey during the state's post-election canvassing...

This is an amazing article. Just one more example out of many of the obvious fact that these machines not only can easily be tampered with to produce anomalous results but that they HAVE BEEN and will continue to be.

Of course probalby nothing will come of this. Sequoia will claim it's a glitch or such of course. In fact when the Joanne Rajopi, the Union County clerk who discovered this called Sequoia to report the result, they said it was "an anomaly." "Excuse me," she said, "but it's an error."

Nuff said. Unless a computer is broke it works as it is programmed (or as it's hacked or patched or tampered with or malicisously programmed either at the factory or duing an election maintenance visit, etc. etc. etc. etc.)

Link: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5718
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 07:12 PM
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1. Just fricking FASCINATING. K&R
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JackORoses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 07:24 PM
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2. First New York, now New Jersey has inaccurate counts? Who won those again?
Edited on Wed Feb-20-08 07:25 PM by JackORoses
Oh right...Hillary

Too bad her Super Tuesday scheme has turned out to be a failure.

If her victory had seemed complete that night, and Obama had conceded the next day,
would we even be hearing about these erroneous counts??

I wonder....
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 07:27 PM
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3. When will the Age of Deception end
In order to have the We, in We the people, we have to get rid of the phantom voters in the machines.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 10:41 PM
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6. Probably not before the media conglomerates are broken up.
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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 07:45 PM
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4. Sorry to dupe BradBlog who posted on GD. But it can't hurt to cross post
a story like this one I guess. God knows this stuff gets almost no play in the MSM.
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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 07:45 PM
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5. Sorry to dupe BradBlog who posted on GD. But it can't hurt to cross post
a story like this one I guess. God knows this stuff gets almost no play in the MSM.
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