Posted on 11/04/2004 11:55:00 PM PST by ambrose
Posted on Fri, Nov. 05, 2004
Computer error at voting machine gives Bush 3,893 extra votes
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct.
Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Bush received 365 votes there. The other 13 voters who cast ballots either voted for other candidates or did not vote for president.
Damschroder said he received some calls Thursday from people who saw the error when reading the list of poll results on the election board's Web site.
He said the error would have been discovered when the official canvass for the election is performed later this month.
Damschroder said after Precinct 1B closed, a cartridge from one of three voting machines at the polling place generated a faulty number at a computerized reading station.
The reader also recorded zero votes in a county commissioner race.
Damschroder said the cartridge was retested Thursday and there were no problems. He couldn't explain why the computer reader malfunctioned.
Workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in the voting machine Thursday and each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine. With the other machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up to 365 votes.
IT DOESNT MATTER EVEN IF KERRY WON OHIO HE STILL WOULD LOSE! BUSH WON NEVADA NEW MEXICO AND IOWA! EVEN IF WON OHIO BUSH STILL WON BY 2 ELECTORAL VOTES!
Without Ohio, he'd only have 266 EVs.
On the other hand, I've heard reports that WI may still be won on absentee balots.
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EVEN IF KERRY WON OHIO, BUSH WOULD WIN BY 2 ELECTORAL VOTES BY WAY OF NEVADA NEW MEXICO AND IOWA!
IOWA
Thanks for the link.
So this isn't a chad issue, since it was electronic.
"At least Franklin County won't need to worry about punch card ballots. The county has about 3,000 electromechanical voting machines in use since 1992. The machines use a flashing red light next to each candidate or issue that stops flashing only after voters make their choice."
What about Iowa?
Yep, electronic... may explain how Kerry topped Gore's 2000 margin over Bush in Franklin County by 40,000 votes...
I don't think so. Unless he gets WI or NH too.
Found this posted by another FReeper...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270699/posts?page=31#31
To: montrose
Chew on this for an anamoly - straight from BOE: I'm guessing 15,000 fraudulent votes in Lake County. Not even remotely possible that W got less votes than Voinivich and LaTourette. Not even.
Last Updated: November 2, 2004 9:17 PM
Registration and Turnout
Lake County
Completed Precincts: 217 of 217 (100.00%)
Reg/Turnout Percent
Total Registration 160,196
Total Turnout 119,657 74.69%
Precincts Turnout 106,808 66.67%
Absentee Turnout 12,849 8.02%
President/Vice President
Completed Precincts: 217 of 217 (100.00%)
Vote Count Percent
MICHAEL BADNARIK 310 0.26%
GEORGE W. BUSH 60,615 51.03%
JOHN F. KERRY 57,471 48.39%
CANDIDATES RULED OFF 0 0.00%
MICHAEL ANTHONY PEROUTKA 247 0.21%
WRITE-IN 132 0.11%
Total 118,775 100.00%
U. S. Senate
Completed Precincts: 217 of 217 (100.00%)
Vote Count Percent
DEM - ERIC D. FINGERHUT 38,554 34.04%
REP - GEORGE V. VOINOVICH 74,693 65.95% (RINO)
WRITE-IN 14 0.01%
Total 113,261 100.00%
U. S. Representative - 14th District
Completed Precincts: 217 of 217 (100.00%)
Vote Count Percent
DEM - CAPRI S. CAFARO 40,903 36.70% (CORRUPT MAFIA QUEEN)
REP - STEVEN C. LATOURETTE 70,559 63.30%
Total 111,462 100.00%
31 posted on 11/04/2004 12:54:32 PM PST by mabelkitty (Blackwell for Governor in 2006!!!)
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I just checked the NYT electoral map and is still showing Ia and NM gray, is there a map that you know of that shows all the correct totals?
Don't worry. The number is too small to make a difference. Unless they could find a systematic error in many places, and fixing the error could tips the balance, then not much they can do. Plus, OH is a Republican state, unlike NM where the Dems will try until 2007 to find the 'missing democrats votes' among Indian tribes.
just like people still claim ELVIS is still alive.
You are so right, and this can't be said often enough.
I've been documenting this subject for years:
Click the picture & goto "last" for the latest on Vote Fraud:
...and while we can argue over details, there is an irreducible bottom line:
1- there needs to be an audit trial, on paper.
2- the voter needs to show ID- just like I do at my hometown bank, to cash my own check.
LOL! This is gonna drive them all nuts!!! HA HA!
Well, let's see now . . . Dubya has at least a million he can spare . . okay, we'll give 'em a million of Dubya's votes, and then maybe they'll go home. HA HA!!
This computer has more sense than the voters.
Cool! Can you imagine a DUmmie doing something similar? God the difference just yells at you.
In my experience, 99.99907% of all "computer error" is actually operator incompetence. ATMs are virtually error, idiot and tamper proof. Why can't voting machines be?
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