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Dover results disputed: School board candidate says machine was faulty
The York Dispatch ^
| 11/10/2005
| Christina Kauffman
Posted on 11/11/2005 12:22:17 AM PST by jennyp
Residents have said they just want this election to be over, similar to the sentiment of many Americans after the 2000 presidential election.
But in the Dover Area School District, Tuesday's election is a bit more complicated.
There are no "hanging chads," but York County election officials are inspecting a faulty voting machine at Friendship Community Church on Fox Run Road that counted only one vote for incumbent school board candidate James Cashman.
John Scott, York County director of elections, said this morning that officials are looking into it, but declined further comment. "There's obviously something wrong," Cashman said yesterday.
The machine registered "001" votes for Cashman, who said other candidates running on the same platform received about 100 votes at the machine.
Tuesday, Cashman and seven other board
incumbents were narrowly defeated by eight members of Dover CARES (Citizens Actively Reviewing Educational Strategies).
Came in fifth: Cashman was running for a four-year seat on the board. Winning four-year seats were Dover CARES candidates Bernadette Reinking, Terry Emig, Herbert McIlvaine Jr. and Bryan Rehm. Dover CARES candidates oppose a statement in biology class about intelligent design.
Cashman and incumbent board members Sherrie Leber, Edward Rowand and Alan Bonsell were also seeking four-year seats.
Cashman finished 99 votes behind Bryan Rehm, the Dover CARES candidate receiving the fewest votes for one of four four-year seats, according to unofficial election night vote totals.
Rehm took 2,625 votes, compared to Cashman's 2,526 votes.
"Voters got cheated," Cashman said. "I'm not trying to make a mountain out of a molehill, but this is what happened."
Cashman said he has spoken to election officials, who are inspecting the machine to determine how it malfunctioned and whether an accurate count can be salvaged.
"Election officials are trying to determine what to do," he said. "It's obvious the voters are being cheated if they don't correct it, so they have to come up with something."
Cashman suggested calling former presidential candidate Al Gore for advice.
"It's not like I got 70 votes and I'm contesting it. I," Cashman said. "I got one vote on a machine that was obviously screwed up."
Judy McIlvaine was in the church as a poll watcher for Dover CARES when votes were counted. She said as election workers were reading vote counts, most of which were in the high 90s, "They read 001 and there was this sort of collective gasp and we said, 'Can't you just hit retrieve? No,'" McIlvaine said.
She said no one knows what the options are and added, "It's as though it's a soap opera that will never end."
Says motivation is fairness: Adding 100 votes to Cashman's total would place him one vote ahead of Rehm, but he said his motivation is fairness, not politics.
"This is not a plan by me to oust Bryan Rehm," he said. "I think I could have very well done it yesterday if (the machine had counted correctly)."
Rehm could not be reached for comment. The Rehm family's answering machine said its "memory is full" and wasn't accepting messages.
"We've been inundated with calls," said newly elected CARES candidate Larry Gurreri, who won a two-year term along with CARES candidates Judy McIlvaine and Patricia Dapp.
Incumbent board members seeking those seats were Eric Riddle, Ronald Short and Sheila Harkins. Seventy-eight votes separated Gurreri, who finished third, and Riddle, who finished fourth.
In the closest race -- for the two-year seat of former board member Bill Buckingham's unfulfilled term -- Dover CARES candidate Phil Herman edged school board member David Napierskie by 26 votes; 2,542 to 2,516.
With the exception of Cashman's machine complaint, no other protests have been lodged with the election office in the Dover Area School Board race.
And Gurreri said he doubts the result of the four-year seat election will change.
"We're watching and waiting," he said. "If there's something wrong with the machine, there's something wrong with the machine. How are they gonna prove that there was something wrong with the machine?"
"Of all the things to happen..." Gurreri said in a tired voice.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: crevolist; dover; schoolboard; voterfraud
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It's a conspiracy! The VASC has struck again!
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:22:19 AM PST
by
jennyp
To: <1/1,000,000th%; Aric2000; balrog666; BMCDA; CobaltBlue; Condorman; Dimensio; Doctor Stochastic; ...
Message to Darwin Central: The minion you hired turned the counter back WAY, WAY too far! Didn't you tell him that the preferred method is to turn the counter back by 10% or so over 10 machines? I demand that whichever minion was assigned this task be fired & made to turn in his jumpsuit. Geez, you can't get any good help anymore.
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:27:17 AM PST
by
jennyp
(WHAT I'M READING NOW: Art of Unix Programming by Raymond)
To: jennyp
Cashman said he has spoken to election officials, who are inspecting the machine to determine how it malfunctioned Note the assumption that it DID malfunction. Unless he can come up with sworn testimony of two voters he hasn't got much of a case.
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:41:38 AM PST
by
adamsjas
To: jennyp
If the minion is fired King County Washington would gladly employ whoever it is. They are always looking for new voting "tricks".
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posted on
11/11/2005 12:42:04 AM PST
by
taxesareforever
(Government is running amuck)
To: adamsjas
OK, so he finds two voters who swear they voted for him. Now what. Do they get to run a re-vote in that area?
To: taxesareforever
My thoughts is that the whole DNC took note of how Gregwhore stole the governor's seat and are using it nation wide. On a level playing field the little commie rats loose every time.
To: jennyp
What happened in our town, was that the machine set itself back to zero when the count went over the capacity of that particular machine.
There was a larger than expected turnout and the entire election had to be done over.
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posted on
11/11/2005 3:14:20 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
To: jennyp
I'm grateful for the ping, and of course I pray that electoral justice will be done in this case -- after long and costly litigation which further tears that woeful community apart -- but I can't deploy the ping list for this issue. Most of our 320 people probably don't care about the political career of one idiot creationist.
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posted on
11/11/2005 3:55:40 AM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Expect no response if you're a troll, lunatic, retard, or incurable ignoramus.)
To: PatrickHenry
But would you talk this way if one of the ape-men candidates had been screwed out of his votes? I think not.
To: b_sharp; Ichneumon; longshadow; CarolinaGuitarman; Thatcherite; MineralMan; Coyoteman; js1138; ...
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posted on
11/11/2005 4:19:07 AM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Expect no response if you're a troll, lunatic, retard, or incurable ignoramus.)
To: jennyp
This is something I didn't expect to happen in Dover..in
the City of York yes. A common tactic there is double voting I've heard. For York County, PA this is something.
Stay tuned..P.S. Maybe that's why they're bringing up Pat
Robertson. I didn't know the mainstream media watches "The
700 Club." The libs at the highest level (National Education Association H.Q.) want us to think about Pat
Robertson instead.
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posted on
11/11/2005 4:41:38 AM PST
by
Nextrush
(The Soviet Union died, but the National Education Association is alive and well)
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
11/11/2005 4:47:38 AM PST
by
King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
To: Nextrush
It doesn't matter. Pat Robertson has pronounced:
“I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover. If there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city. And don’t wonder why He hasn’t helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I’m not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that’s the case, don’t ask for His help because he might not be there.”
Whatever happens to the good people of Dover is now... exactly what? Noah's Flood killed lots of innocent unborn and toddlers, didn't it?
Probably the rain comes to the just and unjust about equally. Same as before.
To: PatrickHenry
It's at almost $250; too rich for my blood. If they could mass produce them and sell them at say $15 each.... :)
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posted on
11/11/2005 5:34:04 AM PST
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: jennyp
Oh, this is rich! If a fossil is missing in a sequence, the creationists insist that it must never have existed. Now we are supposed to believe that a given number of votes existed to fill some perceived gap, just because it seems reasonable that they should have been there?
To: Physicist
Inference is a harsh mistress.
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posted on
11/11/2005 5:56:56 AM PST
by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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posted on
11/11/2005 5:57:08 AM PST
by
Junior
(From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
To: adamsjas
Ah, I see Big Al Gore is still with us.
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posted on
11/11/2005 7:05:23 AM PST
by
furball4paws
(One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
To: jennyp
Says motivation is fairness: Adding 100 votes to Cashman's total would place him one vote ahead of Rehm... ... And adding 600 votes to Al Gore's Florida total would have made him POTUS, at least up to Jan, 2005.
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posted on
11/11/2005 7:17:21 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Now what. Do they get to run a re-vote in that area? Yep...
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posted on
11/11/2005 7:19:42 AM PST
by
kjam22
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