oh wait we cant because somebody controls the machines.
NEWS RELEASE, September 24, 2002
Rebecca Mercuri
It is entirely possible that Florida and other states may smooth out their election day problems such that it appears that the voting systems are functioning properly, but votes could still be shifted or lost in small percentages, enough to affect the outcome of an election, within the self-auditing machines. Whether this occurs maliciously or accidentally, it presents a frightening prospect --- http://www.notablesoftware.com
Here are a few issues that were found in the 2002 elections that might sound familiar
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Over in Miami-Dade, reported undervotes of as much as 48% in some precincts in the Gubernatorial race caused Janet Reno to demand that a recount be performed. Here however, election officials reconstructed some supposedly missing votes by extracting dubiously recorded data from the touchscreen machines!
Union County, the optical scanning system had been erroneously programmed to print out only Republican party results
What about the precinct in southern Florida that showed a 1200% voter turnout (12 times as many voters as were registered) because the DRE activation cards permitted voters to cast ballots on machines in the same building that were not in their precinct?
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this could have all been prevented if our elected representatives would have got their act together.
find out who your representatives are and call, mail, email, go stand in their offices, follow them to their meetings and make them address this issue make them realize they have screwed up and make them sign up for instant reform.