New Mexico Law Suit Delves Inside Voting Machines

New Mexico Law Suit Delves Inside Voting Machines

New Mexico rarely generates much national news. When it does, as in the Wen Ho Lee nuclear espionage investigation, it can be explosive.

Now a little-known lawsuit before New Mexico District Court Judge Eugenio S. Mathis has the potential to alter the face of American elections.

Lopategui et al versus the State of New Mexico is proceeding at a surprising pace, with the litigants currently in the “discovery” phase of the trial, the point at which lawyers are allowed to question key witnesses and dig for facts and opinions with wide latitude. The targets of discovery right now include Sequoia Elections, two of the big three voting machine companies; Rebecca Vigil-Giron, New Mexico Secretary of State; state and local election officials; and officials of the state’s voting systems support vendor.

Highly disturbing facts and allegations have already emerged in this well-run but under publicized case. For example, in one majority Hispanic precinct, the voting machines produced exactly zero votes for John Kerry. More issues will arise as the Plaintiffs’ legal team digs deeper into the highly irregular events of Election Day 2004. Remarkably, these events occurred at a much higher rate in predominantly Hispanic and Native American precincts.

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computer voting: :argh:

I live in Ohio and the power structure here is keeping the stolen election
and dirty voting covered up. Maybe New Mexico can break the log jam
and the dirty water from november 04 will pour out and cause such a
stink that the public will have to pay attention.

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Tis enchanting indeed.

Navajo country...

...and where the coyote chases the roadrunner.

and I know my vote was simply deleted by those fucking machines.

To believe Stupid won this state is to believe 17,000 people left their warm houses to stand in line to vote for a JUDGE.

That's the discrepancy between the votes cast for local judges and the tally for the general election. The Democrats swept the judge races.

The more they examine what went on in this state, the worse it will stink, and Richardson (D-DLC DUMBASS) is on the side of the voting machine companies.

County where they recently shut down the review of the machines.

is my more human pseudonym (full humanity is a long sought goal of mine;) One thing you can count on is that the people representing THE PEOPLE in this case are quite extraordinary and sincere.

Didn't even know I was pimping a DUers work!

I sent this to Mark Miller, hit him up too when you have a minute. He's got connections, yo.

Tellers. I sent this to Miller along with the other stuff I wrote...Told him I was fine being a citizen journalist but CM should be earning it's overpaid wages.

Thanks for the boost!

Thank you again for the work you've done in picking up the ball and running with it, on more than one front.

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:hi:

Rebecca Vigil-Giron and Election Bureau Director, Denise Lamb who told him and are still telling us that these machines are trustworthy. Denise Lamb (another Democrat) is President of the National Association of State Election Directors. Even at our local level in Southern NM where I live, perfectly good Democrats told me that they KNEW some of the Sequoia techs and they KNEW these machines could be trusted. Grrrrr

When the Secretary of State and Election Bureau Director are telling EVERYONE how trustworthy these machines are, I really didn't expect Governor Richardson to dismiss their opinion. What I DID expect, was for Vigil-Giron and Lamb to recognize and acknowledge problems with the machines. I specifically sent them three different Otero County voters affidavits spelling out problems with the machines and they dismissed them out of hand.

to win the House in tight races with non diebold areas(there will still be several, I"m suspecting by 2006).

I thought I remembered reading that here on DU, within the last couple weeks. That article is dated Nov. 2.

computer expert, David Dill, PhD, Stanford (VerifiedVoting.Org) showed up at Bernalillio County to do the inspection, he was turned away in violation of the agreement. When they went to San Jaun, he was allowed to test the machines operationally, which was not the deal but he proceeded (he was to have full access to the machines in both counties).

He did test and found a bunch of stuff wrong: if you pressed straight party and the selected the candidates individually, which the machine allowed you to do, and then voted, NO VOTES WERE CAST. There was no explanation on the machine about this. If you pressed two squares at once, which you were allowed to do by the touch screen, it voted for a third candidate. There were other problems just with an operational review.

This is, of course, nonsense and there needs to be a full inspection. To enforce this discovery, there will be another court hearing.

Judges always like the litigants to work these things out in advance and, in this case, he thought they had and so did everybody else.

You have a very good memory;)

eom

Looking forward to the next in the series!

URGENT! Timing is critical to save freezing earthquake victims!

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