Democrats Already Cheating in Ohio

[BigBadBrian]

MARION — Joan Stevens was one of several early voters at the polls on Monday. But when Stevens tried to cast her ballot for president, she noticed a problem.

Upon selecting “Mitt Romney” on the electronic touch screen, Barack Obama’s name lit up.

It took Stevens three tries before her selection was accurately recorded.

“You want to vote for who you want to vote for, and when you can’t it’s irritating,” Stevens said.

Stevens said she alerted Jackie Smith, a board of elections member who was present. Smith declined to comment, but Stevens says she mentioned that the machine had been having problems all day.

Stevens also reported the issue to Sophia Rogers, the director of the board of elections for Marion County.

Rogers said the machine worked fine when she and others tried voting on it. No one else had reported problems with the voting machines malfunctioning.

Rogers suggested the issue may have been caused by not hitting the button directly or tapping with more than one finger. Stevens was aware the machine had to be operated a certain way.

“I know how to do the voting,” Stevens said.

Despite no problems with that particular machine, Rogers decided to take all precautions. She contacted the vendor and had them inspect the device.

“Because of her issue, we had that machine recalibrated,” Rogers said. “I am certain the equipment works properly.”

Rogers said that those still skeptic about using the electronic stations have the option of filling out a paper ballot, even voting from home and mailing via absentee ballot.

Voting in-person is open daily to all voters at 222 West Center Street through Election Day on November 6. All qualified Ohio voters can also submit an absentee ballot by filling out a form found at the Marion elections website at marionelections.com link

[Nickdfresh]

Maybe she's just a retarded klutz?

[FORD]

I actually doubt this story, unless there's a third electro-fraud machine company in Ohio besides the Repuke owned Diebold and the Romney owned Hart Intercivic. And there are no such companies owned by Democrats, so it seems unlikely they would be rigged in favor of Obama.

But I encourage Repukes to spread this story anyway, even if it's a complete fabrication. Because it's about time you idiots believed what I and others have been telling you for years about these fraudulent piece of shit machines.

[jhale667]

Not buying it, Brie. The "cheating-ass bastards" belong to YOUR party.

[MUSICMANN]

I think we have all be hoodwinked on this election. From Obama himself, he thinks this election is between Clinton and Bush. So voting for Romney or Obama doesn't matter.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/f...-election.html

[FORD]

You want some true comedy, check out this thread over at the teabagging wackjob site "Free Republic".

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2952851/posts

I guarantee you that every last one of these morons never questioned the fraud in Ohio in 2004 for even a split second.

[jhale667]

Here's my conspiracy theory: So if a Wrongney vote switches to Obama, it can only mean some kind soul put in a hack to keep people from voting against their own best interests. That'd be a humanitarian effort.

[Unchainme]

THE. MACHINES. NEED. CALIBRATED.

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STEALING VOTES. FOR EITHER PARTY.

THERE IS NO GRAND CONSPIRACY.

There is a republican and democrat at every polling place, and one or the other is not allowed to assist voters unless their is a member of the other party nearby.

[twonabomber]

“I know how to do the voting,” Stevens said.

I bet she's okay with "the Facebook" and "the Twitter," too.

[kwame k]

[Satan]

And now for the REAL story of what's going on in Ohio..........

Will "experimental" software patches affect the Ohio vote?
by Bob Fitrakis and Gerry Bello
October 31, 2012

Why did the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted's office, in an end run around Ohio election law, have "experimental" software patches installed on vote counting tabulators in up to 39 Ohio counties? Voting rights activists are concerned that these uncertified and untested software patches may alter the election results.

During the 2004 presidential election, the Free Press reported that election officials observed technicians from the ES&S voting machine company and Triad computer maintenance company installing uncertified and untested software patches on voting machines in 44 Ohio counties prior to the election. Software patches are usually installed to "update" or change existing software. These software patch updates were considered suspect by election protection activists, in light of all the voting machine anomalies found during the 2004 election in Ohio.

The Free Press has learned that Election Systems and Solutions (ES&S) installed the software patches that will affect 4,041,056 registered voters, including those in metropolitan Columbus and Cleveland (click here for spread sheet from verifiedvoting.org).

A call to the Ohio Secretary of State's office concerning the software patches was not returned by publication deadline. Previously, the Free Press requests for public records, including voting machine vendor contracts, have been stonewalled by Office Secretary of State John Husted's office through his public records officer Chris Shea. Through other channels, the Free Press has obtained and has posted the possibly illegal full contract online here (see page 17).

The contract calls for ES & S technicians and county poll workers to "enter custom codes and interfaces" to the standard election reporting software just as was done with the controversial 2004 Ohio presidential election.

Last minute software patches may be deemed "experimental" because that designation does not require certification and testing. Uncertified and untested software for electronic voting systems are presumably illegal under Ohio law. All election systems hardware and software must be tested and certified by the state before being put into use, according to Ohio Revised Code 3506.05. By unilaterally deeming this new software "experimental," Secretary of State Husted was able to have the software installed without any review, inspection or certification by anyone. ES & S, for their part, knows that this software will not be subject to the minimal legally required testing as stated in the contract on page 21 (Section 6.1).

The contract specifically states that this software has not been and need not be reviewed by any testing authority at the state or federal level. Yet, it is installed on voting machines that will tabulate and report official election results, which Ohio law forbids. Based on the Free Press reading of the contract, this software is fully developed, being referred as versions 2.0.7.0 and 3.0.1.0. Thus the only thing making this software "experimental" is the fact that it has never been independently certified or tested.

In preparation for the upcoming general election in late April, the Free Press began requesting public records from all 88 counties in Ohio in order to build a broad database of every vendor and piece of equipment used in the state of Ohio. Aside from some minor delays, all 88 county jurisdictions have complied.

However, the office of the Ohio Secretary of State however, has not complied with any requests for lists of equipment, contracts with vendors, schedules of payment and even the identities of the vendors. The Free Press' public records requests, under ORC 149.43 (The Public Records Act) have been ignored by Chris Shea, presumably acting on behalf of Secretary of State Jon Husted. Now that the Free Press has obtained the contract, it seems clear that the secretary of state's office was hiding these last minute "experimental" uncertified software installations.

On page 19 of the contract, terms require the various county boards of elections to purchase additional software from ES & S if they are not compatible with this new "experimental" statewide tabulation and reporting system. This unfunded mandate clause illegally bypasses individual counties rights to make their own purchasing determinations.

The controversial software will create simple .csv files like those produced by spreadsheet programs for input into the statewide tabulation system. According to the terms of the contract, data security is the responsibility of each local board of elections: "…each county will be responsible for the implementation of any security protocols" (see page 21 of the contract).

Most county boards of elections do not have their own IT departments and are reliant on private partisan contractors to maintain and program the electronic voting systems. These piecemeal implementations of security protocols would also be untested and uncertified.

Voting rights activists believe this whole scheme may create a host of new avenues of attack on the integrity of the electronic vote counting system. The untested and uncertified "experimental" software itself may be malware. Public trust in the electronic vote counting system has emerged as the key issue in the Ohio presidential election.

The Free Press will be updating this breaking story as more information is obtained and analyzed, so stay tuned. The story for now is that the Secretary of State in the key swing state in the 2012 presidential has installed "experimental" uncertified and untested software to count a large portion of the Ohio vote.

[jhale667]

Is it Taggware?

[Satan]

No, these are Chuck Hagel's ES&S machines. So that's in addition to Tagg's Hart Intercivic machines, and Diebold's commitment to "deliver" Ohio to the Repukes.

[BigBadBrian]

All the media articles about Republicans cheating are true and all the media articles about Democrats cheating are false or made up by retarded people.

You people crack me up!

[ZahZoo]

And now for the REAL story of what's going on in Ohio..........

Gotta ask... If this is "the REAL story" then why did you shift ID's to post under an alias that was occasionally funny and cute 10 years ago, but is way past it's "Best if used by" date?

Beginning to wonder... Have you been at this charade so long you actually believe it's real?