[Imc-web] URGENT ACTION TO FORCE RECOUNT IN 34 STATES -- please post!

[xavier Macintosh]

Hello imc--

IF YOU THINK THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN.... AGAIN....

Black Box Voting’s Bev Harris, the leading authority
on e-voting, has just lauched the largest Freedom of
Information Act request ever for the audit trails on
the electronic voting machines one third of the
country used in Tuesday’s election. In order to also
force a recount in 34 STATES, Black Box is asking all
those who want a full recount, who believe the exit
polls were NOT wrong, to do the following ASAP:

FAX RALPH NADER AT 202-265-0092. 

Write this message: Ralph, PLEASE CHALLENGE THE
ELECTION RESULTS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE NOW. 

SIGN YOUR NAME AND UNDER IT WRITE: BLACKBOX VOTING.ORG
Activist 

IF A PRECEDENT CAN BE ESTABLISHED IN NH, A FULL
RECOUNT CAN BE FORCED. NH IS JUST TO GET THE BALL
ROLLING. 

Please see www.blackboxvoting.org and volunteer or
donate or www.therandirhodesshow.com Friday Nov. 5th
show

AND PASS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN!

BUSH HAS NO MANDATE. LET'S PROVE IT.

*** 

see this from the AP (and the stories are growing):

Ohio machine error gives Bush extra votes
The Associated Press
 An error with an electronic voting system gave
President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus,
elections officials said.

 Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush
receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260
votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638
voters cast ballots in that precinct.

 Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct,
Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County
Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch.

 State and county election officials did not
immediately respond to requests by The Associated
Press for more details about the voting system and its
vendor, and whether the error, if repeated elsewhere
in Ohio, could have affected the outcome.

 Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes,
according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded
the election on Wednesday after acknowledging that
155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio
would not change the result.

 The Secretary of State's Office said Friday it could
not revise Bush's total until the county reported the
error.

 The Ohio glitch is among a handful of computer
troubles that have emerged since Tuesday's elections.

 In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes
were lost because officials mistakenly believed a
computer that stored ballots electronically could hold
more data than it did. And in San Francisco, a
malfunction with custom voting software could delay
efforts to declare the winners of four races for
county supervisor.

 In the Ohio precinct in question, the votes are
recorded onto a cartridge. On one of the three
machines at that precinct, a malfunction occurred in
the recording process, Damschroder said. He could not
explain how the malfunction occurred.

 Damschroder said people who had seen poll results on
the election board's Web site called to point out the
discrepancy. The error would have been discovered when
the official count for the election is performed later
this month, he said.

 The reader also recorded zero votes in a county
commissioner race on the machine.

 Workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in
the voting machine and each showed that 115 people
voted for Bush on that machine. With the other
machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up
to 365 votes.

 Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a glitch occurred with
software designed for the city's new "ranked-choice
voting," in which voters list their top three choices
for municipal offices. If no candidate gets a majority
of first-place votes outright, voters' second and
third-place preferences are then distributed among
candidates who weren't eliminated in the first round.

 When the San Francisco Department of Elections tried
a test run on Wednesday of the program that does the
redistribution, some of the votes didn't get counted
and skewed the results, director John Arntz said.

 "All the information is there," Arntz said. "It's
just not arriving the way it was supposed to."

 A technician from the Omaha company that designed the
software, Election Systems & Software Inc., was
working to diagnose and fix the problem.
 Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.



		
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