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to send this but I am a newbie and cannot post things myself. I think this needs to go into this whole voting fraud effort somewhere but I am not sure where or how to get it there. It is articles like these that cause people to shake their heads and roll their eyes when I try to tell them the truth about what has gone on in this election. Perhaps I should send Ms Cathy Cox (A DEMOCRAT TOO!) this posting of all of your hard work so she can see just how "accurate" these machines are.
Here is part of the article; it exceeds the 4 paragraph limit so if you are interested or can point me in the right direction, I will send the remainder in an email to you or whomever you suggest. There is a chart that accompanies this as well.
For immediate release: Secretary Cox: New Data Shows Voting Accuracy Soared in 2004 Presidential Contest in Georgia
ATLANTA ? Secretary of State Cathy Cox today released newly compiled data from Georgia's November 2(superscript: nd) General Election showing that the accuracy of the vote count increased dramatically compared to the presidential election four years ago. Secretary Cox said the improvement was attributable to the deployment of a uniform electronic voting system in 2002.
Secretary Cox said the improvement in accuracy resulted in more
than 103,000 additional Georgia ballots being properly counted in the
presidential race this year. In the presidential election in 2000, Georgia's undervote rate (sometimes called the residual vote rate) which is the percentage of ballots that registered no choice in the presidential race, was 3.5 % of ballots cast. Academic researchers with the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project found that Georgia's undervote rate in 2000 was the second-worst in the nation.
Final data from the 2004 General Election reveals that the presidential undervote rate in this year's election plummeted ? dropping nine-fold, to only 0.39 %. Out of more than 3.3 million ballots cast this year, only 12,843 ballots registered no choice for president. "This new data makes clear that the adoption of a modern system of electronic voting dramatically improved the accuracy of the vote count in Georgia," said Secretary of State Cox, who serves as the state's chief elections official. "If you apply the high undervote rate we experienced four years ago to the huge turnout we had this year, we would have had more than 103,000 additional lost votes in the presidential election in 2004.
In other words, modernizing our voting system resulted in 103,000 more Georgians having their presidential choice counted this year. To improve voting accuracy by such a huge margin may be unprecedented in American electoral history. Four years ago, no state, whatever their voting method, had an undervote rate as low as 0.39 %, the number we recorded on November 2(superscript: nd). Georgia has gone from a laggard to a leader in voting
accuracy, and our citizens now have the assurance that the votes they cast will be accurately recorded and counted," Ms. Cox added.
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