Posted on 10/27/2010 5:34:33 AM PDT by VU4G10
Clark County is where three quarters of Nevada's residents and live and where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's son Rory is a county commissioner. Rory is also a Democratic candidate for governor. Since early voting started, there have been credible reports that voting machines in Clark County, Nevada are automatically checking Harry Reid's name on the ballot: Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked.
Ferrara said she wasn't alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.
"Something's not right," Ferrara said. "One person that's a fluke. Two, that's strange. But several within a five minute period of time -- that's wrong."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Organized crime? Hmmmm...an interesting concept. Lemme talk to Dad about this one...
Using cellphones in poling locations is illegal in Nevada.
The voting machines in Clark County, NV also create a paper trail similar to a grocery store receipt. The voter does not get a copy, but they do get to view their votes before pushing the final button to confirm and cast their ballot.
Of course, if election officials want to conduct honest elections they can and will do it. It’s not a technology issue; it’s a dishonesty issue.
Are these the Sequoia voting machines, made in Chavez' Venezuela?
HF
“just confirms my fear that computerized voting is potentially MORE fraud and accident prone than paper voting, because there is no audit trail.”
My thoughts from another thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2615463/posts?page=37#37
So is voter fraud
I think we all need to go back to paper ballots.
This is one place where ‘technology’ isn’t helping American voters. Too much room for fraud.
If we can’t use the power of persuasion, we’ll use the persuasion of power. - Andy Stern””””
THUGS-—Every last one of them. Payback is going to be a B____.
“Clint Williams” said he was for a paper ballot with an automated tally... you can always go back to the paper ballots for a manual recount or a chad inspection. With full computerization, you could argue that an encryped signature accompanying the bits would guarantee the same effect, but I don’t believe it. It’s a lot easier to find bits in memory than the more typical shoebox of uncounted ballots in some official’s trunk.
“The voter does not get a copy, but they do get to view their votes before pushing the final button “
They get to view how they voted, but they have no idea how the votes are actually recorded.
In my precinct we use the optically scanned paper ballots. In 08 they had a single touch screen machine but only a couple of people used it and they didn’t bring it back.
Personally I like the idea of a code number on each ballot and a phone number we could call to make sure our vote was counted correctly. That presnts other problems though.
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