True
to form Florida is in the midst of another election
nightmare. Is it a few less than honorable election
officials in a couple counties; or, is it the simplistic
process the state uses for certifying and accepting voting
systems for use; or, is it vendors who have no problem at
all selling counties voting systems that should never be
used in elections work and that they don’t even warrant as
being manufactured to be used in elections? Or, is it all of
the above? I suspect it is all of the above. Indian River
Co. decided to test a new system that would modem results
from the poll sites to the main tabulating room. They
decided to do this test in the middle of an election and
they ended up doubling results from 40 polling sites. The
results from Palm Beach Co are still a mess big enough to
boggle the mind but there seems to have been thousands of
votes that went uncounted originally while the final total
vote count went down by over three thousand votes in one
race after a machine and manual recount. And there is still
a recount underway in Broward Co. Who knows what reports of
problems will come from that recount. Is this a portent of
things to come in November? It very clearly is that. ...
National: Proposed Mitigation for
GEMS (and other EMS) Vote Deletion LINK
Wisconsin: Voter
registration information often doesn’t match driver
records 22% mismatch rate found in registrations this
month LINK
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