And if they can rig this election, they can rig any election.
The election results for New York’s 23rd district looked funny from the start, and now we’re finding out that indeed, the results were not accurate. Dominion/Sequoia, a Venezuelan, Hugo Chavez controlled company, supplied the electronic voting machines that were used in NY23. It appeared that Democrat Bill Owens had somehow won the election, but with mounting evidence of voter fraud, Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman unconceded, and for good reason.
The Democratic Elections Commissioner in Hamilton County, Cathleen Rogers, is now admitting that a virus was found in the voting machines just a week before the elections. Dominion/Sequoia claims they resolved that problem in time for the vote. Maybe not. Rogers has no clue as what the company did to “fix” the machines, and is just taking their word that everything was okay. No other counties were informed of the virus problem either, so at this time it is not known if machines outside Hamilton country were infected as well. We can only speculate at this point.
These machines are a piece of work. Not only were they infected with a virus, but even when they were working as designed they were junk. Freeze ups, paper jams, and easy access for anybody that wanted to stuff the ballot box were some of the problems that make you sit back in disbelief that someone actively sought out these machines for the election. These machines are so poorly designed that they can be manually stuffed with ballots at a 10 to 1 ratio. That’s not all. There is also a USB port on the side. Geez, what could you do with that? Unbelievable. The machines were malfunctioning on election night as well. That prompted manual votes, and in some counties, Hoffman had a tally of 0 votes. Normal election night errors? Election night chaos? You be the judge.
This company has a history with junk voting machines. Dan Rather exposed them when their garbage was used in Florida.
The manufacturer of the machines, Dominion/Sequoia Voting Systems is the same company that Dan Rather accused of causing over 50,000 votes to go uncounted in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida due to intentional oversight. Rather’s report claimed that Sequoia was well aware of the issues but proceeded into the election utilizing an inferior product and told election workers and technicians to “ignore the problems.
Just ignore the problem, Venezuelan style. I don’t consider Dan Rather a beacon of journalistic integrity, but in this case, it appears he was right on the mark.
Add to all of this the fact that Bill Owens may have been sworn illegally. Owens’ campaign knew that the election might be close, so it was he that contested the election in advance to prevent Hoffman from being immediately sworn in had he been declared the winner on election night. That means that the election was contested, and Owens should never have been sworn in. Didn’t realize you could do that. Electronic voting machines. We are ALL heading down this road. 2010? Look out, I see red flags.
I’ve talked about electronic voting machines before, but you won’t hear so much as a whimper of protest from the politicians that are benefiting from the rigged, or easily rigged machines. Do you think this is the first rigged election? And it won’t be the last as long as easily hacked voting machines are used. Old school paper ballots, with stakeholders from all sides observing would ensure a pretty fair count. Apparently that’s too complicated, that, or our unrepresentatives are actively making sure our vote is irrelevant. You decide.
You have a point. There is something to be said for good old paper ballots. To think that these machines have a USB port easily accessible is a scary thought.
I don’t buy the argument that they had to use these machines because they were somehow more accessible to the disabled. An old punch ballot is pretty easy to handle.