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West Virginia: Vote Flipping Caught on Tape
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by Erik Larson | October 29, 2008 at 09:09 pm
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Jackson Co. West Virginia clerk inadvertently gives a demonstration of the unreliability of electronic voting machines. The machine was flipping the votes right on camera- even after he recalibrated it. Nearly 360,000 views in 2 days; your vote may not get counted, but you can post a video of it being stolen on youtube.
"We're totally transparent here; we welcome anyone who would like to see how the machine is operating..."
I just want to know that my vote and everyone else's was counted, and that the election accurately reflects the People's will.
How is this possible with these Black Hole eVote-Stealing Machines?
Article references RFK, Jr., Clint Curtis, Stephen Spoonamore and gives many examples of how these machines are open to tampering and unreliable.
Direct link to YouTube - WV Vote Flipping Caught on Tape
As early voting in the US presidential elections gets underway, ES&S iVotronics touch-screen electronic voting machines have been observed in four separate states flipping the votes – mostly from Barack Obama to John McCain but sometimes to third party candidates too. This has already occurred during early voting in the states of West Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri and Texas.
A county clerk in West Virginia invited a video crew to watch his demonstration of the reliability of the disputed voting machines but instead he saw the machine flipping the votes, as critics claimed. He put this down to the faulty calibration of the voting machine. However, even after he recalibrated the machine it continued to flip votes. Watch the video here:
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at 02:45 on October 30th, 2008
No, he misspoke at 1:49. In the full interview, he shows at the end that when you select a candidate, and then select a straight ticket, the candidate will not change. Nader did not "come up." Nader was already selected before the Mountain Party was selected.
at 07:03 on October 30th, 2008
Not sure what you're talking about; in the vid i linked, before "recalibration", a vote for Obama was switched to Republican Chuck Baldwin- after "recalibration" the clerk selected straight Republican and the machine selected Ralph Nader (a much different problem from the one usually reported; Dem votes being switched to Rep).
What "full" interview; please link or reference it if you want people to see it.
The thrust of your message seems to be that people can trust electronic voting; there is no way to know for sure what's going on with evoting- even if the source code were open and only opscan counting, not touch screen voting machines were used.
Electronic voting machines have been disenfranchising Dem voters since 2002, Cleland vs. Chambliss is a classic example.