Posted on 09/15/2002 1:00:52 PM PDT by plain talk
MIAMI - (KRT) - Janet Reno's campaign for governor is trying to build a sweeping case against the now-infamous touch-screen voting machines that campaign officials believe may be responsible for Reno losing the Democratic nomination. The case, summarized in a draft document obtained by The Herald, would not be used to challenge the results of last week's election, even if Bill McBride is certified Tuesday as the nominee, campaign officials said Saturday.
Instead, the evidence would become part of a larger effort to put the blame for Florida's latest election fiasco at the feet of Gov. Jeb Bush and the election reform law he signed with great fanfare last year. "What we're doing is far more important than whoever the nominee is," said Reno campaign manager Mo Elleithee.
According to the draft document, headlined "Suspected Problems with Florida's Electronic Touch-Screen Voting Machines," the campaign has consulted with an expert who has studied the machines in use.
Among the allegations: touch-screen machines suffer from the buildup of smudges as more people vote that create inaccuracies, some voters saw the wrong candidate's name light up when they touched the screen, many machines may not have properly calculated votes, and some machines had more than the typical percentage of ballots without a vote in a governor's race.
Election Systems and Software, the company that manufactures the iVotronic machines used in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, could not be reached late Saturday. Last week, ES&S said in a statement that its machines "accurately captured 100 percent of the votes which were cast. No votes were lost or not counted."
Eleven counties in Florida that used the iVotronic equipment Tuesday, but only Miami-Dade and Broward had serious problems. The election supervisors in the four counties that systems identical to those in Miami-Dade and Broward told The Herald that their elections went smoothly.
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Reno should get in her little red truck (take Shalala with her) and head out towards Martin SHeens house...and stay there.
They are complaining about smudges?!?!? What a crock.
... part of a larger effort to put the blame for Florida's latest election fiasco at the feet of Gov. Jeb Bush ... But the strategy of making election reform an issue to use against Bush - specifically targeting the voting equipment - is designed to remind loyal Democrats of their frustration after the contested 2000 presidential election in which Bush's brother narrowly won the White House. By raising a challenge with similar themes - "smudge buildup" and "inadequate calibration" replaces "chad buildup" and the "hanging chad" - Democrats could win some points.
I suppose that this could be interpreted as a mark of the Dim-wit-rats' desperation, but I can just see the media crawling all over this. I encountered an obviously die-hard Dim the other day who was positive that JEB Bush was responsible for every evil short of WTC's construction short-comings!
Considering that the 2 counties with the most problems have their Supervisor of Election Offices controlled by Dim-wit-rats, and that they have had 2 years and much state money provided to fix any teething problems and that the State offered warnings and help several months ago to both Rep.s and Dem.s and the Florida Counties, this just FROSTS ME completely.
The things worked in every other county but three. Back in Illinois the Democratic machine would give out tickets to free chicken dinners to any voter pledging to vote democrat. Maybe they did that down in south Florida and the grease built up on the touch screens, LOL. Or, the voters shoook the hands of a democrat who's had his palms greased with bribes so many times that the slime transferred to the voters.
some voters saw the wrong candidate's name light up when they touched the screen,
Let me guess... did Pat Buchanan somehow get listed? Did his name distract Reno's voters?
many machines may not have properly calculated votes,
Those were the ones invented by Algore.... the ones that calculate by using the axioms and corollaries of FUZZY MATH.
and some machines had more than the typical percentage of ballots without a vote in a governor's race.
Well, what is the 'typical percentage' in a governor's race? Did anyone notice that in prior years there were more ballots than there were voters ...and that's why there were fewer than normal votes for governor in this year's governor's race?
Someone should check the electric outlets at the polls... either the election judges were too stupid to plug the machines in, or someone rigged the outlets. In that part of the state I can believe both possibilities.
And how, pray tell, do SMUDGES get on machines that nobody can figure out how to TURN ON????
Have they ever heard of Windex? Seriously wondering if Dems in Florida should be allowed to vote. It seems to stress them out in a major way.
Don't try to bring common sense into this equation, lol.
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