The mysteries of electronic voting

I have to say that the more I hear about the election system in the USA, the more I believe that it is deeply flawed and were I a US citizen, I would not trust anything else than a system where it is possible to recount every vote with near 100% accuracy.

A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) strongly hints that the '04 Presidential Election could have been easily stolen, and only a handful of people would have been required to performed the work.

Here is the article reporting about that. It is very very disturbing!
At the end of the article, you will find the link to the GAO report.


And as if it was not enough, a recent vote in Ohio seems to have been tampered with as well, in a not very refined way. More about it here.
Here are the numbers, so you get the picture:

ISSUE 1 ($2 Billion State Bond initiative)
PRE-POLLING: 53% Yes, 27% No, 20% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 54% Yes, 45% No

ISSUE 2 (Allow easier absentee balloting)
PRE-POLLING: 59% Yes, 33% No, 9% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 36% Yes, 63% No

ISSUE 3 (Revise campaign contribution limits)
PRE-POLLING: 61% Yes, 25% No, 14% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 33% Yes, 66% No

ISSUE 4 (Ind. Comm. to draw Congressional Districts)
PRE-POLLING: 31% Yes, 45% No, 25% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 30% Yes, 69% No

ISSUE 5 (Ind. Board instead of Sec. of State to oversee elections)
PRE-POLLING: 41% Yes, 43% No, 16% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 29% Yes, 70% No


This is statistically IMPOSSIBLE!


My advice to those voting with electronic machines: follow closely how to mid term '06 elections!


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