[FlingWingFlyer]

He also ordered that all records associated with the machines be preserved.

That's called "evidence" in legal lingo.

[Blood of Tyrants]

This is why electronic voting machines MUST print out your votes and allow you to view them through a window so that you KNOW that your votes are cast correctly. If the votes are not correct, you and the election judge can void it and the votes are electronically subtracted from the total and you vote again.

[EternalVigilance]

Bump.

[mykdsmom]

Excellent ruling!

Our county doesn't use the touch screen machines. We use the ones where you complete the broken line with a black marker and then feed it into a machine when you are done. I don't recall ever having complaints about them in the 15 years I've lived here. Wonder why all of our counties in NC can't have the same machines?

[torchthemummy]

Board officials have disputed the Republican claims, saying the lawsuit was intended to erode voter confidence and any issues during early voting were isolated and quickly fixed.

Ummm...if there were problems that were fixed then that indeed means there were problems that may happen again. No mention of what caused the problems but, hey, we're supposed to just believe they are gone and couldn't possibly happen again. /sarc

[PermaRag]

Good for that judge. The NC Secretary of State (a liberal Democrat) has a smarmy reply to the Republican complaint posted on the SOS website, noting how disingenuous the Republicans are for "trying to imply this is a widespread problem that favors the Democrats" or something like that.

And of course stating (as the Rat SOS in Nevada did too) that there is no evidence whatsoever of any fraud, and the problem with the voting machines was simply due to the Republican voters "brushing" the screen the wrong way.

Yeah. That must be it.

[chilltherats]

As long as the machines are in service, we’re screwed. They should have been ordered out of service.

The GOP should have tested and inspected every machine well before early voting started. As usual, the GOP is a day late and a dollar short. They are so lame, it’d be funny if it wasn’t so serious.

[kalee]

ping

[TChad]

Since most vote fraud is committed by the left, eliminating computerized voting machines should be a conservative political priority.

Will this be the election that teaches the public about the risks inherent to computerized voting?

[opentalk]

Thanks for posting this. Corrupt elections are becoming the norm after Acorn in the last election. They need to address this now to help head off more of this in 2012.

[TChad]

Princeton researchers show how to hack a Diebold voting machine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cxSJwG9Q0

[Attn to Detail]

Finally! The GOP should have reacted sooner.

[Mortrey]

Please, those of you who Twitter or are on Facebook, spread this around!

Reporting Voter Fraud

The Republican Party has set up a National Hotline, which will be staffed with Attorneys to handle polling issues as well as possible voter fraud or intimidation.
1 - 888 - 775 - 8117. IF you even SUSPECT this is happening, PLEASE call for their free advice.

http://www.resistnet.com/

[MitchellC]

NC *Ping*

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[Stormtrooper79]

Judge Malcolm J. Howard was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

President Reagan is still fighting for freedom.

[pnh102]

Electronic voting machines should be banned. Like any other computer there will always be security issues which make them trivially easy to hack.

[WellyP]

This was ruled on by a FEDERAL Judge. Does that mean it will apply in Nevada? It should!