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"glitch" in Ohio gives bush extra votes

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  • 06-11-2004 8:07am
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    Memnoch
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    http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html
    Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.

    so off course it was a "glitch" and completely "accidental". I have to wonder, how many more of these "glitches" took place whereever electronic voting machines were used, and were not found out or caught?

    It certainly appears to me that Bush has succeeded in hijacking the election this time around. And with no paper trail to prove anything either way, its really the perfect crime.

    Long live democracy!

    and please whatever we do, don't let these electronic machines get into ireland no matter what it takes!


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    steviec
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    Workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in the voting machine and each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine. With the other machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up to 365 votes.


    This error was a) caught, b) fixed for the official count, c) too small to have any meaningful effect.

    Not quite sure how a machine glitch which was discovered and fixed proves that the election was rigged.


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    daveirl
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    tovalee
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    Unfortunately, I know Gahanna all too well. There was no fraud. Its a very conservative, well to do, republican area. blech


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    billy the squid
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    Yeah but whose to say that all the electronic machines werent given three thousand extra votes for bush, it just got spotted on this particular machine because there were fewer votes on this particular machine.


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    billy the squid wrote:
    Yeah but whose to say that all the electronic machines werent given three thousand extra votes for bush, it just got spotted on this particular machine because there were fewer votes on this particular machine.
    Well you could say that, but 50 million democrat voters would be pretty darn stupid if they didn't pick that up.
    So about as likely as snow in Dallas on july 4th


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