FL-13, electronic voting fails and election may be stolen

[Thorgrim]

Supporters of new voting technologies have been patting themselves on the back, saying there were no big voting problems this year. Let them go to Sarasota.

Here's the story so far: The official vote count in the battle for -- you won't believe this -- Katherine Harris's seat put Republican Vern Buchanan 369 votes ahead of Democrat Christine Jennings out of roughly 238,000 votes cast.

But in Sarasota County, there was an "undervote" of more than 18,000 -- meaning that those voters supposedly didn't choose to record votes in the Buchanan-Jennings race. Jennings carried the county 53 percent to 47 percent.

The Sarasota undervote in the congressional race amounted to nearly 15 percent. Kendall Coffey, Jennings's lawyer, has pointed out that in the other four counties in the district, the undervote ranged from 2.2 to 5.3 percent. Put another way, roughly 18,000 of the 21,000 undervotes in the contest came from Sarasota County.

It's hard to believe that Sarasota's voters had a different view of the race than voters everywhere else in the district, considering that the undervote on the county's absentee ballots, cast on paper, was only 2.5 percent. The upshot: Any reasonable statistical analysis suggests that only 3,000 to 5,000 of Sarasota's undervotes were intentional, meaning that 13,000 to 15,000 votes were probably not counted.

If you believe that these machines operated properly, then you must also believe that I missed my true vocation as an NBA center.

E. J. Dionne Jr. - An Electronic Canary - washingtonpost.com

Ofcourse, the Dems are completely focused on their January term where its "100 hours" will precede the State of the Union address, who gets what assignments, etc

However, after the initial battle settles, look for strong Netroots outcry to be actually listened to...rather than just posted on liberal blogs since Nov 8th

We won 30+ seats, we did the near impossible and did a total sweep that got us 6 senate seats, and we did the historical in all of this happening in a year where GOP turnout was extremely high and we didn't lose one seat

However, despite all of that, we come back to the old issue of electronic voting, and we will deal with this issue, it is still far too vulnerable to base the entire free world on machines with vital flaws and only slightly older models that were completely hacked as a hobby