Say, maybe these electronic voting machines aren't such a great idea after all.

At the request of election officials, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation has seized voting machines for forensic analysis and has launched a criminal investigation into the Franklin County Board of Elections.

The investigation was launched after Jennifer Brunner,Ohio's Secretary of State and chief election official, found that a candidate's name was marked as withdrawn on the electronic voting machine that she used during the recent primaries, an irregularity that was also reported by voters in other precincts. The state attorney general is now working with a team of computer forensic consultants to determine if there was any tampering.

Preliminary analysis conducted by specialists from SysTest Labs indicates that the internal audit capability of the Franklin County voting machines had been manually disabled by county election board programmers last year, making it almost impossible to tell if any nefarious changes have been made to the systems. SysTest also discovered that the election board had failed to adhere to routine machine testing standards and had tested only one machine in each precinct rather than all of the machines.

Comments

[RBM]

Say, maybe the comments I read about Ohio being terribly corrupt, are true.

[Fred Gregory]

Oh, you mean like in "Jim Wells County" , Texas where the county election officials stuffed the paper balot boxes giving us the crook as Senator and eveventual President, LBJ.

Or like the Daley machine stole the election for JFK in 1962.

While we are discussing disenfranchisement I say let the Florida and Michigan citizens who voted by the millions have representation at the convention. LET EVERY VOTE COUNT !!

[jb]

Sounds like you aren't going to be voting for the candidate who emerges from that convention. So I fail to see why any of us who will be voting for that candidate should give a crap what you say about Florida and Michigan.

[Fred Gregory]

Dear Anon JB,

Operation CHAOS is underway any working to perfection so don't care about what I say but please do BITE ME !

[Tony Ledford]

John F. Kennedy wasn't running for office in 1962. He was halfway (actually, two-thirds of the way) through his first, only and abbreviated term as President of the United States.

What election are you referencing?

Regards,
TL

[Fred Gregory]

Tony,

That was an honest brain fart and you know darn well I was refering to the 1960 election. I do recall driving to Raleigh to see JFK speak at WNR Coliseum on the NCSU Campus. Kinda grasping at CS aren't you?