2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWill E-Voting Machines Give Romney the White House?
This November, much of the Ohio electorate will cast its ballots on machines again owned by close cronies of the Republican presidential candidate. In Cincinnati and elsewhere around the state, the e-voting apparati are owned by Hart Intercivic. Hart's machines are infamous for mechanical failures, "glitches," counting errors and other timely problems now thoroughly identified with the way Republicans steal elections. As in 2004, Ohio's governor is now a Republican. This time it's the very right-wing John Kasich, himself a multi-millionaire courtesy of a stint at Lehman Brothers selling state bonds, and the largesse of Rupert Murdoch, on whose Fox Network Kasich served as a late night bloviator. Murdoch wrote Kasich a game-changing $1 million check just prior to his winning the statehouse, an electoral victory shrouded in electronic intrigue. The exit polls in that election indicated that his opponent, incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland, had actually won the popular vote.
Ohio's very Republican Secretary of State is John Husted, currently suing in the US Supreme Court to prevent the public from voting on the weekend prior to election day. As did Blackwell and Governor Robert Taft in 2004, Husted and Kasich will control Ohio's electronic vote count on election night free of meaningful public checks or balances
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32748.htm
We still use pencil and paper in Australia, and I hope it will stay that way. The possibility of rigging votes electronically is just too easy.
elleng
(130,956 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)MAD Dave
(204 posts)..... in Canada too. Thank Goodness!
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)The question is how much can they get away with statistically and does this involve many people in which case it's awfully risky for them.
Anyone know the statistical situation? Discrepancies with Exit Polls in previous elections?
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Yet these states went to Bush.
I don't see any rational explanation for that one.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)but someone mentioned today that part of this method is to create a situation where one side must concede for the sake of stability ... so I am hoping that we learn from past experience and that Obama already has a strategy in case. It didn't seem to be needed last time but the repugs are desperate this time.
Matilda
(6,384 posts)There were some very dodgy figures from Ohio.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)they're clearly not confident that e-voting alone will do the trick.