Maryland Voters Tell of Vote-Switching, Downed Machines

My apologies if this is a duplicate post:

WHEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE GOES WRONG: Maryland Citizens Tell the Story of Election Day 2004

http://www.truevotemd.org/Election_Report.pdf

(Thanks to VotersUnite.org)

Just how widespread was this "vote-switching" thing? I'm sorta doing an analysis of reports of this, and it happened in at least 3 states so far: Ohio, New Mexico, and Maryland - so far. I also remember reading that TX, PA and FL also had reports of this, I'm still gathering all this up.

Does anyone have any idea how few times this had to happen in a precinct, in multiple states, to make it a huge advantage for Bush? Again, these are all reports of Kerry votes going to Bush - I have yet to find one single report of a screen showing a Kerry vote when the voter pressed "Bush."

We have NO IDEA how many of these voter / citizen reports there are out there in the other states. I just happened to stumble onto this one. It is just ridiculous for the media to continue to ignore these reports - signed affadavits, in some cases - and still applaud the election as fair, problem-free, and complete. It boggles. I guess I'm still naive.

Edit - forgot to mention - Maryland has a Republican Governor, correct? Wasn't it their African-American Lt. governor who was highly visible at the Rep. Convention, and was on Bill Maher? And wasn't it in Maryland where they fought tooth and nail to make sure there was no papertrail, and won? I think so...

Man.

The machine being used for handicapped voters had 18 slips of paper at it and 22 votes-- no one knows where the extra four votes came from. :shrug: One machine just went out completely. Someone came out to recalibrate it, but it never worked right again. Also, and I just thought about this the other day, there was a woman who was sent over as a replacement worker and guess who she worked for.... Diebold!!! The only thing that made me think of this is that she was so eager to do *my* job and I put my foot down and told her that I was not turning over the duties, I was trained for, to her.

Talk to an attorney and find out how to write this up in an affidavit and get it to BBV or another activist organization.

This is their online contact form:

http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems_submit.asp

At this point Maryland has 12 reported instances on their chart. This is the first one listed:

"TrueVoteMD's trained election observers 201 machine malfunction in the 108 precincts they observed, which represent 6% of the state's precincts. Among the problems were 42 instances of machine crashes, 30 screen malfunctions, 17 instances when votes were switched on the screen, 37 problems with the ballot encoder, and 16 incidents in which the ballot was incorrect or incomplete."

To respond to your statement "I have yet to find one single report of a screen showing a Kerry vote when the voter pressed 'Bush'
", I don't have the thread or a link, but I think I remember something about the early voting in Florida and instances of switching for BOTH candidates. That easily could have been media spin or Repugs trying to make the switching appear unbiased, but.... Anyway, I will look through the archives for the thread....

KJ

edit: correct reference

...I will surely add it to the lists. Aside from the fraud angle, there's the legitimacy and accuracy of the election at stake. Even if fraud is never found, incidents like just can't be ignored, it's ridiculous.