Posted on 10/25/2008 2:37:06 PM PDT by kellynla
Gwinnett County elections officials will have to hand-copy votes from at least 10,000 absentee ballots onto new ballots that can be read by a machine.
The original ballots, designed to be filled out by hand, are flawed because of a printing error. The circle beside the candidate’s name is too thick and somewhat misshapen, and consequently an optical scanning machine won’t be able to read the votes on Election Day.
The county discovered the problem last week during routine testing.
Gwinnett had already mailed out 19,700 flawed ballots before it realized the problem.
Of those, 10,000 have already been marked and sent back by voters, said Lynn Ledford director of Voter Registration and Elections for Gwinnett County.
The printing mistake was not apparent to the naked eye, Ledford said.
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Has the distinct smell of fish...
They should do a manual count of those ballots results before re writing them and then recount them afterwards to make sure the transcribed ballots have been done correctly with independent observers.
wouldn’t is be simpler to just tally the ballots rather than create a new original for machine tally? Is there some legal restriction causing work that is both extra and likely to be error prone.
Praise the Lord.
Yup, dimpled chad for Obama.
I live in Gwqinnett and am so proud to be the first in a hanging chad mess—NOT!
ooops!—I guess that would be Gwinnett, not Gwqinnett.
If this were in Dekalb or Fulton Counties, I’d say “Hell yes there is fraud going on” because they are Democrat counties controlled by minorities for Obama. In Gwinett, I’m not so sure
“...wouldn’t is be simpler to just tally the ballots rather than create a new original for machine tally?”
Yes, but it would depend on who controls the elections office. If it is Democrats then being sloppy and quick is a convenience, pure and simple, towards stealing the election.
If the law is written in such a way that only a machine tally will fulfill the law, then the way to handle it is to tally the ballots BEFORE transferring the votes to readable ballots and then checking the final tally for a perfect match.
I suspect who does it carefully depends on the local majority party.
Right, this is John Linder, heavy GOP area.
Optical scanners??? I thought we were using Diebold machines statewide in Georgia. And Gwinnett is a very large metro Atlanta county. I’m in Cobb county, and we’ve been doing electronic voting for a few years now. That was something our Secretary of State (a Democrat) was VERY proud of.
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