Saturday, January 06, 2007

Florida, ES&S and another questionable race

This DU post raises some damn good questions (lightly edited for clarity and style here) regarding the Attorney General's race:
Sumter County in Florida had undervotes of over 15% reported in 95% of their precincts. The undervote rate was over 25% in 31 percent of precincts in early voting. One precinct had over 50%.

Yet for absentee voting on paper the undervote rate was 2.8% No precinct had under 10% undervotes on election day.

Six other counties had undervotes in the Attorney General's Race of similar magnitudes.

Who would trust the results on these ES&S touch screens in this race or any race?
A gross disparity between paper results and electronic results is one key sign of electoral hugger-mugger. We will have more to say about ES&S in the near future.

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