Ohio Voting Problems. Groundwork For Losses


Hey folks,


It’s "Humpday". Only two days to go to the Weekend. Also only 83 days to go to the midterm elections. It seems that Ohio is having some issues with the new electronic voting machines.

According to the AP


"Problems with elections in Ohio's most populous county are so severe that it's unlikely they can be completely fixed by November, or even by the 2008 presidential election, a report commissioned by Cuyahoga County and released Tuesday says.

A nonprofit group hired to review the county's first election with new electronic voting machines found several problems with the May 2 primary, the results of which were delayed six days because roughly 18,000 absentee ballots had to be hand counted.

The absentee ballots had been improperly formatted for new optical scan voting machines. Poll workers also had problems operating the machines, some poll workers didn't show up, vote memory cards disappeared and one precinct opened hours late. Researchers also found that the four sources used to keep track of vote totals on machines did not always add up."

The Election Science Institute (ESI) is a non-profit, non-partisan scientific organization based in San Francisco. It was founded in 2002 under the name Votewatch. ESI monitors public elections in the U.S. to identify voting anomalies which impact election results, and works with election officials to help them improve voting and election systems. In other words, they are the ones the LWL call when they lose.

"An official with the maker of the voting machines, North Canton-based Diebold Inc., said the report was flawed because the researchers did not properly review electronic votes in some cases.

Mark Radke, director of marketing for Diebold subsidiary Diebold Election Systems, also blamed inadequately trained poll workers, saying the totals didn't always add up because some changed memory cards without also changing the paper receipt rolls."

One thing I found reasonable was County elections chief Michael Vu is waiting for ALL the information to be presented, "so that we can make an informed decision to the report as a whole."

Mark my works folks. If the election does not go their way in November, they will be citing this Ohio thing, and they will be crying that "yet another election was stolen" probably suing Diebold in the process. Of course, as always, they will blame Bush.
Peter