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...
What will SCREW the Democrats is that this time, Reports of Democrat Vote Fraud will not be ignored, because thier moonbat base made allegations of a "Stolen Election" thier basis for hating Bush.
I said YEARS ago that this was NOT healthy for Democrats, because Vote fraud is a HUGE Democrat Institution!
"Not good!! Whomever has those cards can electronically stuff the ballot box.
The smart card is like a credit card that the voter inserts into the Diebold voting machine and it enables the voter to cast the vote. The vote is then tabulated electronically in the machine itsel.
So whomever has the cards, can cast as many votes as they have cards!"
I'm not familar w these type of voting machines. Maybe they'll give some of the cards to ACORN members who will vote in place of some of these folks:
Tennessee Tribune Publishes Non-Voting Names
NewsChannel5.com ^ | 11/02/06 | NewsChannel5.com
Posted on 11/02/2006 4:19:16 PM PST by dfwddr
A number of metro area people were not too happy Thursday evening after discovering their names and addresses printed in a local paper.
The Tennessee Tribune published hundreds of names and addresses of people who did not vote in the August primary, the last election.
Silas Allen, 65, said it came as a shock. He had no idea his name was printed in the weekly paper that focuses on issues in the African-American community. He wasn't too pleased.
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I realize this quote from the article is written like something out of the Globe or National Enquirer, but can you comment as to it's validity:
"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!""
racism? What's the matter...don't they like white folks in Tennessee?
Don't the cards have to be "activated?"
When I go to my electronic voting precinct, I check in with photo id and voter card. Then the poll worker takes a smart card, puts it in a little machine, activating it, and then I can vote with it.
After I've cast my vote, I discard the smart card in a bin, and I'm supposing they are recycled for the next group of voters.
I don't know the technology, but it looks to me like they have to insert it in that machine before I can vote with it.
Who would benefit from destroying the election? Democrats. Ford was losing big.
Had to be here in Memphis. Probably can be found at the Ford Funeral home.
So good, let's bring voter fraud to the forefront of national attention and do all we can stamp it out.
Show up in person at polls with valid state photo ID, purple fingers, the works.
Who's with me? Dems? Huh?
If they are so smart why did they get lost? /s
"Ford said through his aides that he has met with Herenton and County Mayor A C Wharton many times and both support his campaign."
That's a heavily black district in Whitehaven, if anyone's interested.
Seems to me they can recode the machines to prevent this now that they know the cards are missing.
...or the other way around!!
Where in Tennessee?
Welcome To Tennessee.....The Nicarauga of the South.
I hope you're right. If they have early voting, though, it could be a disaster there already. Man, I hope not. Tampering would allow Ford, who's losing big, to win in a landslide.
We're going to need a Constitutional Amendment to stop this.
Have been voting on an electronic machine here in NJ for years. Never a problem that couldn't be immediately resolved.
well,it did happen in Shelby County. They also had 2 people vote twice in early voting!
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