“Glitch” wipes out 1,000 early votes in black FL neighborhood

[abelenkpe]

“Glitch” wipes out 1,000 early votes in black FL neighborhood

http://americablog.com/2012/11/computer-glitch-votes-black-florida-county-election-fraud.html

Always Florida

There was a story over at NBC’s The Grio three days ago noting that at one Florida polling location, in a heavily black neighborhood, the number of people who voted early was suddenly “revised” from 2,945 to 1,942 – that’s a 34% decrease.

At first, polling officials blamed it on a “computer glitch.” Uh huh. And what glitch would that be?

The local supervisor of elections (SOE) didn’t inspire a lot of hope when speaking about another, smaller, change to the early voting numbers at another polling location:


(more at link)

[Angry Dragon]

1. Lie, cheat, steal, anything to win is okay in the republican world

[SickOfTheOnePct]

4. The Supervisor of Elections for Broward County

Dr. Brenda Snipes, is an African-American and a Democrat. Why would you believe that she would be destroying votes in the African-American community? If you look at the numbersm, it's easy to see that it could have easily been a math error. Granted, these should be checked by at least one person from each party before being submitted, but that's a process problem, not intentional vote stealing.

Some mistakes are just that - mistakes.

[vaberella]

8. It's not her I think he's talking about.

It's about the bloody machines themselves. Machines that have heavy Republican backer investment in other locations if not that one.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

9. Both sets of numbers came from the machines

It's very easy to see how this could have happened, because the first set is added manually.

Not to mention that these aren't votes, these are numbers of voters. This has nothing to do with the counting of the votes.

[Honeycombe8]

15. How can the count of the votes not equal the actual number of votes?

That isn't waht the OP said. It said the # of votes cast had changed downward.

Seems to me if the NUMBER of votes is changed downward, then the votes that were associated with the prior votes were lost, as well. Are you saying that the 1,000 votes are still in there, being counted as votes, but the number of votes won't match it?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

16. The headline says votes

But if you read the article, it clearly talks about this relating to number of voters. Votes haven't even been counted yet.

Number of voters and votes cast are tallied by two different means and could be two different numbers.

[robinlynne]

17. no. the votes are counted by private corporations, not by the supervisor of elections.

[snacker]

2. How the hell does this happen?

And why the hell do we allow it to happen?

[NotThisTime]

3. And people here say this one won't be stolen or can't be... yes it can, a thousand votes at a time.

[graywarrior]

5. WTF?

[Blue Owl]

6. Put 'em the fuck back in

Isn't this about as anti-American as it gets?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. First, these aren't vote counts

They are voter counts.

Second, if they were votes, how would you suggest they put them back in?

[vaberella]

7. So how are they fixing this. Please send this to Rachel and Martin on MSNBC, Shep Smith on Fox.

And Anderson Cooper. They will get that remedied and put some heat on these ass holes for trying to steal the vote.

[Zorra]

11. This is imaginary. Electronic voting is 100% foolproof, and besides that, republicans

would never try to steal an election.


Or some would have us try to believe it seems.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

12. No way is electronic 100% foolproof

But these aren't even votes they're talking about.

[Hekate]

13. You really weren't around during the Bush decade, were you?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

14. Yeah, I was

That doesn't mean that every error means that someone is stealing an election. These aren't even votes that we're talking about, it's number of voters.

I don't get why people can't understand that math errors can be made when humans are involved. There is no excuse for not having the manual totals checked by two people, one from each party, but that's just poor process.

Believe it or not, some mistakes are just mistakes. I find it hard to believe that a Democratic SOE would stand by and allow fraud to happen, so I believe her explanation.

YMMV.

[midnight]

18. Human error strikes again....