Did a Voting Machine Computer Virus Screw-up NY-23 Election Results?

Northern NY News/The Lid ^ | 11/19/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

There are new suspicions about the veracity of the election results in NY's 23rd Congressional District. After the election, a re-canvassing of the 11-county district had Owens’ lead narrowing to 3,026 votes over Hoffman, 66,698 to 63,672, with about 10,000 absentee ballots to be counted according to the latest unofficial results from the state Board of Elections. In Hoffman's stronghold, Oswego County, where the conservative was reported to lead by only 500 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted election night, inspectors found Hoffman actually won by 1,748 votes -- 12,748 to 11,000.

There is new bad news for those hoping for a fair election, according to the Northern NY News many of the computerized voting machines were infected with a computer virus that may have tainted the results of the election.

[deport]

Other discussions here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2390238/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390234/posts

[Terpfen]

A computer virus? Slightly more sophisticated than ACORN’s usual methods...

[Danae]

Hey, isn’t that pretty much the historical record in New York? Is there ever fair election in NY? Nah.

[Bob J]

This seat was in pub hands for 100 years...were those elections fair?

[Safrguns]

Hooda thunk?

[Brofholdonow]

Don’t let anyone connected to Al Franken count them...

[bray]

Considering the weight of Nazi Pelosi’s HC plan riding on this election, virus’ are to be expected. Funny how those “viruses” only make Republican underreporting?

Pray for America’s Freedom

[Chode]

do I really have to say it???

[BfloGuy]

Here's a link to the original article for those of you annoyed by people who create blogs that just reprint news articles and then link the to the blog from FR to create hits.

[drpix]

Those voting machines were from Sequoia. That's the company that was bought by multinational Smartmatic - the corporation that in 2004 was said to be controlled by Hugo Chavez. SInce those machines were being used in the US, this connection attracted much attention.

So, recently, Smartmatic made a big show of selling off Sequoia to a group of American buyers. BUT this group was headed by the American who ran the company when it was under Smartmatic ownership. And while it was known that that group was financed by a 3rd party, the identity of that 3rd party was not disclosed (according to web sources).

Does something smell fishy here?

[pallis]

It is time to start moving some money, heat and light onto this treachery, before the Democrat cheats infect the entire 2010 election.

[devere]

It doesn’t sound like anything definitive to me.
Hoffman should probably save his money for November 2010.

[TChad]

So where is the analysis of the virus code? What was it intended to do, how was it introduced to the voting machines — ? These are obvious questions, where are the answers?