Opti-scan machines easily tampered with--Clinton's Justice Dept.

This is from election 2000 and shows how easily opti-scan machines can be manipulated. It was Clinton's Justice Dept that investigated this.



From: http://www.headlinepress.com/

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The Justice Department is investigating the possibility that ballot counting machines in the Palm Beach, Florida area were tampered with, in order that the predominantly Democratic area would have an inordinate number of ballots cast out.

Ballot counting machines normally operate by passing light through holes punched in paper ballots. Investigators are looking into reports that the photo sensitivity was altered in some machines, in order that those ballots with weak punches would undercount, and therefore be discarded.

Experts in the field say this is one of the most subtle and hard to detect methods of altering election results. Suspicions have already been raised regarding the illegal readjustment of photo-optic sensors in past elections in Florida and elsewhere.

It is far easier to alter a counting machine than to fool three or four bipartisan humans scrutinizing every card, which is why hand counting is generally considered to be the most accurate method of counting.

Texas Governor George W. Bush obviously agrees, as it was he who signed into law in 1998 a statute authorizing hand recounting in close elections.

More to come...
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Aren't Optiscan machines the ones that are filling in the bubble with the pencil? This would refer to the punch card voting machines, which is a whole different type (I think).

DelValle v. McGuffage
Latino and African American voters have filed a class action against the Illinois State Board of Elections, the Chicago Board of Elections, and the Clerk of Cook County challenging the nonuniform, arbitrary, and unequal system of voting in Illinois. Plaintiffs allege that Cook County, which has a majority nonwhite population and is predominately Democrat, uses a punch-card system of voting; most of the surrounding counties, which are more affluent, Caucasian, and predominately Republican, use an optiscan system.

http://www.povertylaw.org/legalresearch/election_reform.cfm

IT WILL HIJACK YOUR HOMEPAGE!

I'm going to google the contents and see if I can get another link.

to the article either. Googling the contents only takes me to another citation of the article.

nevertheless, it's an interesting find.

We need to get this to those investigating. You think BBV knows about this?

but I DID read a piece on opti-scanners being UNABLE to read markings from alcohol-based ink pens (which of course were issued to Native Americans in South Dakita to mark their ballots). WHAT A MESS!!!