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ahctlucabbuS
11-06-2004, 02:21 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-11-05-ohio-error_x.htm

:rolleyes:

http://www.boomchicago.nl/Section/Videos/BoomChicagoVotingMachine
Busyman
11-06-2004, 02:39 PM
MCVIV

Computer's have no place in voting.
MagicNakor
11-06-2004, 03:12 PM
Does it matter at all, since Kerry conceded? Could the President be "recalled" and the vote run through again (with a paper, a pencil, and an X? ;))?

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Rat Faced
11-06-2004, 03:17 PM
Apparently, the fact he conceded has no legal bearing...

Of course, like the Gore exception in 2000... they could make this the Kerry Exception. :rolleyes:
MagicNakor
11-06-2004, 11:01 PM
Very odd. I suppose it's more of a showmanship thing then.

Wonder why they don't audit the votes...

:shuriken:
Biggles
11-06-2004, 11:09 PM
If the errors and the votes that require verifying negate GW's 120,000 or so lead (I believe they had about 150,000 to check) would GW lose the electoral college votes and the election? It all seems a bit mad to me.
MagicNakor
11-06-2004, 11:12 PM
If Kerry won Ohio, then he would have won the election, as the electoral seats would be Kerry 272 and Bush 259.

:shuriken:
Busyman
11-06-2004, 11:52 PM
Very odd. I suppose it's more of a showmanship thing then.

Wonder why they don't audit the votes...

:shuriken:
Whhn cmopertu vtgni si atditde yuo gte teh smae rseluts thta yuo intiailly rceidve.

:dry:

That's the beauty of computer voting if you want to cheat.
MagicNakor
11-07-2004, 06:40 AM
The audit would be checking the votes counted against how many voted. That first article has 3,893 extra votes showing, as only 638 people voted.

If that same mistake happened repeatedly, then shouldn't the vote be run again...without the computers?

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Busyman
11-07-2004, 06:45 AM
The audit would be checking the votes counted against how many voted. That first article has 3,893 extra votes showing, as only 638 people voted.

If that same mistake happened repeatedly, then shouldn't the vote be run again...without the computers?

:shuriken:
Agreed.

What's weird is that I thought just votes would be changed, not something as glaring as numbers of votes/number if voters being mismatched.

They wouldn't rerun it. It admits the entire system is fucked.

Also if it were a real malfunction, wouldn't malfunction for Kerry too.

I'm sure that will be added in the future as an alibi.

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ruthie
11-07-2004, 06:46 AM
Nice idea, but...there should be no vote without a paper trail. I guess that would just make it too legitimate though. There are reports of fraud all over the place now.