Massive Warehouse Fire Breaks Out in Houston Entire stock of voting machines were inside.

KTRH News Radio Webpage ^ | August 27, 2010 | Patrick Osborn

[King_Corey]

It started with an early morning warehouse fire in north Houston, which Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman believes the building is where the county housed many of it's 10,000 voting machines. This as officials prepare for this year's mid-term elections.

Though early reports indicate only a portion of the warehouse was destroyed, Kaufman tells KTRH's Morning News she's preparing for the worst.

“I’m not optimistic that we’ll be able to recover a whole lot of it because we’re talking about plastic and a lot of heat,” says Kaufmann.

[Kartographer]

QUICK! Round-up the usual suspects!

[McKayopectate]

Obviously done by the Democrats. They want to get back to paper ballots as fast as possible so they can steal the election.

I don't know if I trust the electronic voting, either.

[muawiyah]

Electronic testing is much better than paper ~

Any Chicago wardhealer could tell you why ~ but they won't.

[mo]

Boy are we gonna NEED to police the precincts down there agressively...

[Spaulding]

Unfortunately, because the machines can be replaced and the manufacturer, which may be a Chavez-owned company, will make a bunch, paper ballots are the only voting mechanism with some potential for checking fraud. In the ‘old’ days, precinct workers, at least one monitor from each political party, counted ballots in public. The ballots were then put in sealed containers and sent to secure storage locations. The original count is tallied and the ballots only used in case a recount is necessary.

Today, there are no ballots, no checks, to monitors. We have entirely opaque elections system. George Soros has invested in another NGO to help control the elections of state secrataries of of state who might be tempted to impose election protocols which might be verified. One can make all sorts of guesses about how voting tallies are executed, but we needn't guess about the verifiability of those tallies because the process is entirely controlled by unelected, and probably union-employed bureaucrats. When reported vote counts in St. Louis in 2000 were larger than the number of registered voters nothing was done; investigations were not demanded by either party.

Elections may be guided by the best guess by those who establish the counts of what they can get away with. Wherever computers are used to tally votes, fraud is not only possible, it is likely. Paper would give us a shot at fair elections.

[RandallFlagg]

Aye.

Reichtag kindling.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"I don't know if I trust the electronic voting, either.

[elpadre]

is there a primary recount, or voting fraud investigation going on?? Are the machines suspect??

[muawiyah]

I can print quite satisfactory ballots on my home computer and check off the votes.

All that I need is someone to get them into the box.

You can "count" all day long but unless someone is willing to DISQUALIFY entire storage containers of votes, you are stuck with my stuff.

Paper is elementally corruptible.

[Texas resident]

There is a big voter fraud investigation going on. Just this week, the story broke that there were lots of acorn style evidence discovered from the 2008 election. Mickey Mouse and his friends registering and voting. Looks like the dims were getting nervous and decided to destroy the evidence.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Who are those guys?” Al oGre

[elpadre]

“...decided to destroy the evidence...”

that has long been their way of washing away problems.

[Whenifhow]

3-alarm fire destroys Harris County Election Services warehouse

http://www.khou.com/home/3-alarm-fire-destroys-Harris-County-Election-Services-warehouse-101636123.html

WATCH LIVE: 3-alarm fire in NE Houston

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2578487/posts

[ModelBreaker]

Cui bono?

[Rannug]

DeLay did it.

[MarineMom613]

Thanks, got called away from my desk. Couldn’t tell them to wait, that I was FReeping! LOL!

[PAR35]

Looks like the democrat former mayor of Houston now has a good chance at the Governor’s office. I foresee lots of paper ballots from areas occupied by core constituencies in that city. They may even be able to get over 100% turnout.

[anymouse]

Democrat Houston Mayor just appoints new Fire Dept. Chief. Another coincidence?

[Arrowhead1952]

The timing of this is suspicious and disconcerting.

Voter Fraud in Harris County? (Houston, TX)

Nah, nothing to see here. Just move along.

[BigEdLB]

Tim Kaine's agents are everywhere... Being next door to Houston Animal control is no accident. ;)