Posted on 11/03/2006 7:03:58 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
Edited on 11/03/2006 7:24:58 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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 machine.
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!
As of Friday morning, a total of 12 smartcards had gone missing, out of the 30 give to the location.
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...
And it needs to be dealt with. I should have been dealt with years ago. Imagine what a great country this would be if the extreme libs hadn't stolen their positions over the last few decades.
Easy there, feller - Every state has its Memphis.
The same deal as in Philedelphia, NY, or any other large, democRAT-infested city. They cheat. It's their self-proclaimed birthright.
There will be many democRATs travelling from pricinct to pricinct voting in the names of recently deceased that remain on the voter rolls. At least 12 of those people may be able to reprogram their cards between stops so that when they arrive, they'll be able to vote twice - once with the voting card supplied by the official in the name of the dead and once with the freshly re-programmed card that they carried in their pocket.
That's assuming that there's no rogue machines out there, or that the person/people with the cards don't have access to a voting location outside of operating hours when the only people watching might be democRATs who will turn a blind eye to their actions.
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