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County says it can't audit voting machines (Pennsylvania)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Oct 4, 2008 | Karamagi Rujumba

Posted on 10/04/2008 3:18:48 PM PDT by decimon

Allegheny County cannot verify the software in its touch-screen voting machines is what the state certified when it allowed paperless voting machines, county officials say, because the state provides no mechanism for such an audit.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: electronicvoting; pa2008; votefraud

1 posted on 10/04/2008 3:18:48 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Hanging algorithms.


2 posted on 10/04/2008 3:20:45 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

How ironic. A ‘Rat strnghold.


3 posted on 10/04/2008 3:21:12 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Illic Est Haud Deus)
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To: Old Sarge

I liked the comment from the CompSci prof. That we’ve known this election was coming since 1789.


4 posted on 10/04/2008 3:23:44 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

guess that explains Obama’s 15 point Quinn. Poll lead in PA?


5 posted on 10/04/2008 3:26:37 PM PDT by parksstp (McCain/Palin - Vote for the future to survive the present)
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To: Old Sarge
Chicken On The Hill, when Stargell hit a home run, had a better accounting system than the City ever did.

You could get only one piece of chicken for free, but you can vote all you want.

6 posted on 10/04/2008 3:26:54 PM PDT by AGreatPer (If it's in the Yellow Pages our government shouldn't get involved.)
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To: decimon

That’ pure bs.


7 posted on 10/04/2008 3:31:46 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty

agree. Just do a simultaneous print out of each vote.


8 posted on 10/04/2008 3:40:30 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: decimon

If you follow that logic then you can’t certify the vote in a Dimorat stronghold. A win by default?


9 posted on 10/04/2008 3:42:14 PM PDT by Steamburg (Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
agree. Just do a simultaneous print out of each vote.

Well, there is that secret ballot thing.

10 posted on 10/04/2008 3:44:30 PM PDT by decimon
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To: parksstp
guess that explains Obama’s 15 point Quinn. Poll lead in PA?

If the poll was taken on voting machines.

11 posted on 10/04/2008 3:45:23 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Just do a simultaneous print out of each vote.

That's an invitation to union intimidation and retaliation.

12 posted on 10/04/2008 3:46:52 PM PDT by Petronski (Please pray for the success of McCain and Palin. Every day, whenever you pray.)
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To: Petronski

Just do a simultaneous print out of each vote.

That’s an invitation to union intimidation and retaliation.

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Only if the print is done serially into a roll of paper. Why not ...

1) have a printout handed to each voter at the end of each vote
2) the voter checks their votes
3) when they are satisfied, they fold it up, and put it into the same old-fashioned box they always did

The computer has it.

The box has it.

Checks and balances.

Right?


13 posted on 10/04/2008 4:11:47 PM PDT by ROTB (Our Constitution [is] for a [Christian] people. It is wholly inadequate [for] any other. -John Adams)
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To: ROTB
1) have a printout handed to each voter at the end of each vote

What about when the union demands it's rank and file present the receipt?

14 posted on 10/04/2008 4:18:21 PM PDT by Petronski (Please pray for the success of McCain and Palin. Every day, whenever you pray.)
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To: decimon

Did Hugo Chavez sell them the program he used? Better find out!


15 posted on 10/04/2008 4:33:16 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: decimon; neverdem

Not sure I believe that “excuse” .... You CAN audit ANYTHING. What they appear to be using as a dodge, as an excuse, is that the “state” didn’t tell the county what to do, what exactly to look for, what paperwork to fill out.

And the county is too stupid, or too reluctant, to figure it out on its own.


16 posted on 10/04/2008 4:36:34 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Petronski

1) have a printout handed to each voter at the end of each vote

What about when the union demands it’s rank and file present the receipt?

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1) In the event of a “recount”, the lack of the receipt being in the old-fashioned box, means that vote won’t count.

2) Observers could make sure each voter that emerges from the booth, puts the receipt into the old-fashioned box.


17 posted on 10/04/2008 4:50:45 PM PDT by ROTB (Our Constitution [is] for a [Christian] people. It is wholly inadequate [for] any other. -John Adams)
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To: ROTB

the computer could....

Oh, for God’s sake! why are WE trying to figure this out. MY bank almost NEVER makes a mistake when i withdraw out of the ATM! and they are saying they CAN”t audit???


18 posted on 10/04/2008 6:00:45 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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