"Creative," ya say? Hmmmm.
Just a little political photoshop humor. But, hey! Who knows?
Posted on 11/03/2006 1:30:52 PM PST by Kaslin
12 SMARTCARDS GO MISSING IN TENNESSEE; CONTROL ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES Fri Nov 03 2006 10:09:31 ET
Political insiders have expressed alarm after 12 voter smartcards have gone missing from one Shelby County, TN early vote location!
The cards are used to activate electronic voting machines.
The location at the center of the controversy is Bishop Byrne High School on E. Shelby Drive in Memphis.
The polling place started out with 25 cards. By Wednesday, 11 were missing, says an eyewitness.
The location was given 5 more smartcards on Thursday.
And another card went missing!
Someone possessing a smartcard could use 'off the shelf equipment' [equipment that reprograms the card] and alter it to be used multiple times, and cast multiple votes.
One concerned insider explains: "Shelby County Board of Elections has been notified. They said is was 'not a big deal' because, they said, the cards are deactivated. But the reality is, you can buy the equipment at computer stores to reactivate them. It's on the Internet how to reactivate the cards!"
Meanwhile, The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is reviewing reports by the Shelby County Election Commission that two people voted twice during early voting in Memphis.
Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons said he's referred the cases to the TBI for investigation along with other matters he declined to discuss.
Poll watchers are expected to turn out Tuesday to observe voting in Tennessee's heated U.S. Senate race between Chattanooga Republican Bob Corker and Memphis Democrat Harold Ford Jr.
Developing...
I am sure that when these cards voting record is found they will be found to have been cast by dead people that were laid out in a few Memphis area funeral homes.
Blame the Governor ... he's a dem.
It was inferior because a bunch of Dade County blue-haired Democrat women could not figure out how to punch a damn ballot (or so their lyin' little hearts said so....).
you are lucky> we use a lead pencil. maybe move up to punch cards in a few years.
sorry, *ahem*... "dissappeared".
Nuts, I was going to suggest checking Agore's pockets,
If I had designed the system, the voting machine would sound an alarm when someone tried to use a stolen card. I would be surprised if the designers didn't do something to insure against misuse, and trap those attempting to commit fraud.
The connect-arrow voting here in AZ is great, but I saw some voters confused by that method too. But it probably is tamper-proof, as much as any type can be anyway.
It's a safe bet that almost all those chads became "hanging", "dimpled", or "pregnant" during the recount.
"Creative," ya say? Hmmmm.
Just a little political photoshop humor. But, hey! Who knows?
Hurray for the Help America Vote Act /s
Can a county still employ paper voting?
Yes its a rat area:
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/politicalInfo.php?locIndex=12561
Presidential politics: Memphis is in Shelby County, which voted Democratic in the last two presidential elections. According to unofficial vote totals for 2004, Bush received 157,591 votes and John Kerry received 215,810 votes.
In the November 2000 election, Shelby County supported Al Gore. Countywide, 141,756 people voted for Bush and 190,404 voted for Gore. Nader received 2,860 votes.
I lived there while I was in the Marines from 1990 - 1993 it was a "High Crime Area". The criminals were killing Shelby County Sheriffs at an alarming rate back then. They also had High Political crime rate the running joke was if you wanted to find a Shelby County Politician you just had to go to the county Jail. Smart cards have a shelf life and can be deactivated quite easy. Static electricity can kill one, plus if its a good one its highly encrypted.
"go missing" what happened to the words disappeared, lost, etc? Is this a politically correct thing or what and where did it come from?
This doesn't surprise me at all. This is how things work in Memphis, home of the Memphis Mafia, the Fords.
Getting prepared to pull an Al Gore, and claim the election was stolen when Corker wins.
Expect lots of attempts at voter fraud there. It's a tradition.
Yep.
Yeah, as far as I know, but with all the money Congress threw out there in that "fair" voting legislation, there's a HUGE incentive to get on the bandwagon and "upgrade" to...whatever.
The bottom line, as far as I'm concerned, is that the whole deals a monumental waste of money. So maybe there were problems with the punch ballot system; so change over to a pen-and-paper system. There's NO reason to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on some fancy-shmantzy electronic machine.
I am not sure we are talking about the same type of smart cards. They only sent 12 and then 4 replacements says to me it is the card that the poll workers use.
When I voted (in Franklin, but electronically) the poll worker put a card (it looked more like a cassette)in the computer and selected which districts I was voting in.
I would hate to have these floating around for some poll worker to reprogram.
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