Posted on 11/03/2006 4:28:18 PM PST by Chicos_Bail_Bonds
MEMPHIS -- Tennessee's Republican Party chairman complained to Shelby County election officials that electronic voting machine cards were missing in Memphis, the hometown of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Harold Ford Jr.
"It has come to our attention that several smart cards used in early voting are missing from at least one early voting site in Memphis, Tenn.," Bob Davis said in a later dated Thursday. "The lack of oversight and control over these smartcards has created a situation which could allow for voter fraud."
The letter called on the commission to "locate these missing smart cards as soon as possible."
Tennessee Election Coordinator Brook Thompson said Friday that even if the cards aren't recovered by officials there is no danger of fraud because they can't be used again.
"The cards are programmed such that once you use them, they cannot be reused until they are reactivated by the Election Commission," Thompson said.
Shelby County Elections Administrator James Johnson didn't immediately return calls seeking comment and wasn't in the office when a reporter stopped by to ask him about the complaint.
Davis did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment about how the situation came to his attention or what voting site was involved.
Ford, a five-term congressman who is matched against Republican Bob Corker of Chattanooga in the Tuesday election, said he would ask the Shelby County district attorney and sheriff to step aside from the investigation because they are co-chairing Corker's campaign.
"They are good people, both, but they should recuse themselves," Ford said. "If we have to ask the Justice Department to come in and oversee this, we may have to. It's unfortunate that these things happen, but we have authorities — and hopefully independent authorities — that will come in and correct the record."
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Electronic voting machines scare the hell out of me. Think how the big city Democratic machines manipulate elections when there is a paper trail - Chicago, Kings County (WA). The list goes on.
Sounds like Ford is getting ready to pull an algore if he does not win next Tuesday.
After the 2000 Floriduh fiasco, Dimocrats DEMANDED these machines. Now we know why.
(Well, we've known all along, but who's counting?)
Madness
"
(Well, we've known all along, but who's counting?)"
That would be the democrats.
Hannity had on a bud of his from a Memphis TV station that stated that TBI and FBI were investigating people voting twice or more in early voting. He said that it was par for elections in that area.
LLS
heh, heh, heh.
Can those cards be reformatted and used in personal computers and/or cameras? If so, that's probably where they are going. The need a proprietary device if that's the case.
Voting by mail on paper ballots in Oregon is looking better every day.
"Think how the big city Democratic machines manipulate elections when there is a paper trail -"
I've yet to understand this "paper trail" talk. How much paper trail was there in the past, and how much is there now? Did the old paper trail mean we didn't actually have a secret ballot? Match the number of people who sign the registration book (along with a thumbprint) with the number of votes in the precinct. Beyond that what kind of trail can you reasonably have?
none of those court challenges will go anywhere.
if 2000 (and 2004 in ohio actually) taught us anything - its that if you win on election day, you win.
I live in Portland, Oregon. Mail-in ballots can easily be compromised. Like the small businessman who said his 4 employees did not want to vote so brought their signed ballots to him to fill out.
Voting by mail on paper ballots in Oregon is looking better every day.
You trust the postal union more than I do
That would be the democrats.
From Key Largo:
Johnny Rocco: You hick! I'll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor and governor before you ever get a 10-buck raise. Yeah, how many of those guys in office owe everything to me. I made them. Yeah, I made 'em, just like a -- like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I take a nobody, see? Teach him what to say. Get his name in the papers and pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lotta groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again till they added up right and he was elected. Yeah -- then what happens? Did he remember when the going got tough, when the heat was on? No, he didn't wanna. All he wanted was to save his own dirty neck . . . Yeah, 'Public Enemy,' he calls me. Me, who gave him his 'Public' all wrapped up with a fancy bow on it.
Holy Mackeral. Bogart, Robinson and Becall, leavened by Barrymore.
Wasn't there a Washington State Governors race reversed 3 months after the fact in 2004?
no, just the opposite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_gubernatorial_election,_2004
Gregoire won the recounts (I consider lawful recounts to be part of the "election"), and Rossi could not get the courts to do anything about it post-facto.
Foiled again!
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