Machine that ate NC votes ate PA votes too!

Most have heard about the Unilect touchscreen machines eating
the 4,400 votes this November.

A Pennsylvania activists forced an investigation into the Unilect
machines in Mercer County, PA.

From a press release:

"The UniLect Patriot system didn't fail merely because the Election Director in Mercer (forced to resign after last November's election) didn't program it properly.
The programming failure applied to only 13 precincts there,
but 41 precincts there had severe problems, ranging to undervotes of an outrageous 70 - 80% in some areas.

That's 7 or 8 out of every 10 voters whose votes were thrown away, unrecoverably, by the faulty DRE voting system."

Also, PA had Michael Shamos come in to do this investigation, which is a conflict of interest since he is the person who certified the machines for PA, including the Unilect.

link:
(http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/2/emw211075.htm)
or
http://tinyurl.com/5c6uu

developing....

From the article:
"The decision to buy that (unilect) expensive lemon was based on the unwarranted approval of it by the Commonwealth of PA. There was no examination of the software, the hardware, the testing, or the testing results pertaining to the UniLect Patriot. The state merely accepted the misleading claims of the vendor without question. Mercer's decision was also based on the deception of Beaver County's commissioners, who recommended the lemon they'd bought without ever revealing that the UniLect Patriot system had caused the undervote rates to soar there immediately upon its implementation."

I posted a few stories about this that I grabbed off the Votersunite site.

Did I not read the FBI had been called in at one point?

Know anything about that?

But this is great news. It's not a "bad script from a late-night conspiracy-theorist" story.

It's just a busted POS!

Does Ed Rendell believe that he requires faulty voting systems to remain in office?