BBV: Mess-Up Du Jour

[JohnGideon]

This is something that we at VotersUnite have been doing for the past 4 or 5 months. This one is important for the upcoming election. The numbers are factual. Apparently, we Democrats are not able to go to the polls and make a decision. We just walk away without voting.
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Georgia. July, 2004. Diebold.
Touch screens show 14% undervote in U.S. Senate race.

Touch screen voting machines reported U.S. Senate votes from only six out of seven Democratic voters.*

While the machines reported 14.5% Democratic undervotes for U.S. Senate, they reported only 3.2% Republican undervotes.**

In the next few days, Secretary of State Cathy Cox will release numbers showing that on July 20 voters requested more Democratic ballots (731,111) than Republican ones (671,961). The numbers are based on ballot counts slowly being assembled from the 159 counties.

... On the Democratic side of the U.S. Senate race, 625,115 votes were cast. That means nearly 106,000 Democrats — 14 percent of the total — took a look at the eight-candidate field. And passed.

* So Democrats ran No. 1 after all. But one in six voters couldn't take the U.S. Senate candidates seriously. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. October 27, 2004. By Tom Baxter and Jim Galloway. (http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/insider/1004a/102804.html)

** Percentages are based on total ballots reported in the above article and total votes reported on the Georgia elections results site for Democrats and Republicans

Note To Mods: Please leave this in General Discussion where most of the BBV people go. This is meant as an indicator of things we should all be looking at before and after the election.

[leftchick]

1. what do you think of the E Voting machine companies...

turning the software over to the Feds yesterday?

[JohnGideon]

4. Putting the software into the library meant nothing....

They didn't put any source code in. They didn't put in anything that was proprietary. They didn't put in any patches or updates or upgrades. I have no idea what is left but that's what they did put in.

This was all done just so they can thump their chests and tell everyone what good citizens they are. NOT!!!!

[RedEagle]

5. Kick! N/M

[leftchick]

2. here is a link to the LBN story....

with new information. This makes me VERY nervous...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x940597

[Eloriel]

3. I'll say it one more time

I want with all my heart to see the blind, deaf, utterly fucking CLUELESS and probably corrupt Cathy Cox in prison orange or stripes before I die.

... On the Democratic side of the U.S. Senate race, 625,115 votes were cast. That means nearly 106,000 Democrats — 14 percent of the total — took a look at the eight-candidate field. And passed.

THAT just doesn't happen -- not to the tune of 14%. Maybe .01% -- MAYBE. What does it take to get her attention? When SHE loses her bid for the Governor's office after being umpty-ump points ahead less than a week before the election (as Gov. Roy Barnes and Sen. Max Cleland were), will she pay attention THEN?

Grrrrr.

Edited to add: and the AJC still doesn't get it. That little snippet buys into the uterly ridiculous notion that Dems simply ignored the Senate race. UNBELIEVABLE.

If anyone is interested in telling the AJC a little bit about BBV, please be my guest:

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/letters/sendletter.html

(You fill it out online -- have to register before even viewing the article, unfortunately)

[RedEagle]

6. Federal investigation, please.

The current gang need not participate.

R. Doug Lewis, vendors, and shameless Shamos need not apply.

Lets have real experts and citizens without corporate ties.