[wplug] OT: Voting machines (drifting further OT)

Russ Schneider russ at sugapablo.com
Mon Nov 14 21:08:46 EST 2005


On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Burt E Reany wrote:

> Be prepared for "We only warrant the units when operated with our purchased
> proprietary software".

With 44 of Ohio's 88 counties for the first time using Electronic
Touch-Screen Voting Machines last Tuesday -- most of them the
same Diebold, Inc. machines that were decertified in California -- you
must take a look at the extroarindarily inexplicable results of the 4
ballot initiatives that would have reformed voting in the Buckeye State
and removed Sec. of State J. Kenneth Blackwell (a hard-right Bush
partisan) from elections entirely.

Simply put, the polls published in the historically accurate Columbus
Dispatch just two days before the election, matched almost identically on
the one ballot initiative supported by Ohio's Governor Taft, but the 4
that called for Electoral Reform? Didn't synch up by a long shot:

      ISSUE 1 ($2 Billion State Bond initiative)
      PRE-POLLING: 53% Yes, 27% No, 20% Undecided
      FINAL RESULT: 54% Yes, 45% No

      ISSUE 2 (Allow easier absentee balloting)
      PRE-POLLING: 59% Yes, 33% No, 9% Undecided
      FINAL RESULT: 36% Yes, 63% No

      ISSUE 3 (Revise campaign contribution limits)
      PRE-POLLING: 61% Yes, 25% No, 14% Undecided
      FINAL RESULT: 33% Yes, 66% No

      ISSUE 4 (Ind. Comm. to draw Congressional Districts)
      PRE-POLLING: 31% Yes, 45% No, 25% Undecided
      FINAL RESULT: 30% Yes, 69% No

      ISSUE 5 (Ind. Board instead of Sec. of State to oversee
      elections)
      PRE-POLLING: 41% Yes, 43% No, 16% Undecided
      FINAL RESULT: 29% Yes, 70% No






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