How may times have the phantom votes NOT been noticed? Otherwise known as votes being "FLIPPED!" Increase the number of precincts and let "The People" count them by hand. The more people involved in the process the less chance there is for massive vote fraud. Read this from Bradblog link provided.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7214The S. Dakota story first, from Wired's Kim Zetter...
A software glitch in an optical-scan voting system added nearly 5,000 ballots to the tally of a South Dakota election this week. The error was discovered only after the election results were called, according to the Rapid City Journal.
The problem occurred when officials combined tallies from optical-scan machines in three precincts in Rapid City in Pennington County. The tabulation software used to combine the totals added 4,875 phantom ballots to the count. The system indicated 10,488 ballots were cast when, in reality, only 5,613 ballots existed, indicating that the glitch wasn't simply a matter of doubling the votes.
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The incumbent in a city council race who appeared to win the race went to bed believing he'd received just 49.96 percent of the vote, which was more than his opponents received but short of the 50 percent plus 1 vote he needed to avoid a runoff election. A recount found that he actually received 51.8 percent of the votes.
Pennington County uses Auto-Mark machines and tabulation software from Election Systems and Software
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