Watch out South Carolina - ES&S voting systems ALERT

For those of you who are concerned about the Diebold election systems in New Hampshire and wish to be aware of potential problems with the electronic voting machines, remember that in South Carolina, they use ES&S voting machines.

ES&S systems actually have similar problems to the Diebold systems. South Carolina will be using the ES&S systems and they have been banned from use in Ohio and Colorado. The ban was prompted by a study done for the state of Ohio in which researchers found electronic voting systems could be corrupted with magnets or handheld electronic devices such as Palm Treos.

"Last month, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that Election Systems and Software's iVotronic is unfit for elections."

http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/jan/07/s_c_use_voting_machines_banned_other_sta26854


The issue is not the company that produced the e-voting system. The questions that must be asked are more along the lines of who maintains these systems? How do recounts happen? How may a voter verify his/her ballot? How are the votes counted?

The technologies of ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia systems have all been criticized by several computer science professors across the United States. If you want to go in to technical detail, there are many concerns, but suffice it to say that if you think that just clicking on a touch screen and hoping your vote will be recorded in a machine or even writing a ballot and not knowing how that ballot will be counted electronically, your votes can now be rigged.

To stay up to date on how to verify your vote check out:

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Diebold favors Hillary, hand count for Obama

Hillary is the only candidate who has more votes on the Diebold machine versus hand counted ballots.

http://presscue.com/node/38034

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5530

Using the Comma delimited database: NH municipalities hand count vs use Diebold machines from BlackBoxVoting.org to see if there was a deviation between the results from precincts which used hand counts and those which relied on Diebold machines. The results were astonishing. :

Updated: 5:05 AM (EST) - Results tallied for 209 out of 236 of the municipalities.


By Percentage
Method Hillary Clinton Barack Obama
Diebold Machines 53.23% 46.77%
Hand Count 47.47% 52.53%


By Votes
Method Hillary Clinton Barack Obama
Diebold Machines 82860 72807
Hand Count 18898 20912


By Number of Municipalities Won
Method Hillary Clinton Barack Obama
Diebold Machines 54 33
Hand Count 43 77


About 81% of the votes will be "counted" by the Diebold machines.

This website does a county by county analysis on hand count versus Diebold counted results. One can see that the Diebold count gives hillary more votes and all other candidates less votes.

http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php?party=DEMOCRATS

This video by blackbox voting shows:

"One man's private, sole source company programs 81% of the election in New Hampshire, 100% in Connecticut, almost all of Massachusetts and most of Vermont. Never before seen video of the under-the-radar elections contractor John Silvestro as he tangles with master security expert Harri Hursti."