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N.C. Judge Rules For Republicans In Voting Machine Foul-Ups
WBT Radio ^ | 10/30/2010 | A.P.

Posted on 10/30/2010 6:59:16 PM PDT by Palmetto Patriot

Edited on 10/30/2010 7:31:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A federal judge in North Carolina ruled Saturday that voters must be warned touch-screen voting machines are sensitive and poll workers will need to keep detailed records of complaints about the machines during next week's elections.

The temporary order issued by Judge Malcolm Howard stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the state Republican Party against the State Board of Elections a day earlier.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; fraud; votefraud; voterfraud; voting
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1 posted on 10/30/2010 6:59:20 PM PDT by Palmetto Patriot
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To: Palmetto Patriot
He also ordered that all records associated with the machines be preserved.

That's called "evidence" in legal lingo.

2 posted on 10/30/2010 7:01:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Just another white boy riding in the back of the bus next to the Emergency Exit.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Good for him. Judges don’t like to get mixed up in elections but this is a good ruling. He must be a pretty good lawyer.


3 posted on 10/30/2010 7:04:48 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (the way to win this game is not to play)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

This is why electronic voting machines MUST print out your votes and allow you to view them through a window so that you KNOW that your votes are cast correctly. If the votes are not correct, you and the election judge can void it and the votes are electronically subtracted from the total and you vote again.


4 posted on 10/30/2010 7:04:58 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

Bump.


5 posted on 10/30/2010 7:13:42 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Jefferson: I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves)
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To: Palmetto Patriot
Excellent ruling!

Our county doesn't use the touch screen machines. We use the ones where you complete the broken line with a black marker and then feed it into a machine when you are done. I don't recall ever having complaints about them in the 15 years I've lived here. Wonder why all of our counties in NC can't have the same machines?

6 posted on 10/30/2010 7:20:17 PM PDT by mykdsmom
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To: mykdsmom

We fill in the oval and feed them into the scanner.

In 08 there was a single touch screen machine there but so few people used it they never brought it back.


7 posted on 10/30/2010 7:30:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Palmetto Patriot
Board officials have disputed the Republican claims, saying the lawsuit was intended to erode voter confidence and any issues during early voting were isolated and quickly fixed.

Ummm...if there were problems that were fixed then that indeed means there were problems that may happen again. No mention of what caused the problems but, hey, we're supposed to just believe they are gone and couldn't possibly happen again. /sarc

8 posted on 10/30/2010 7:32:14 PM PDT by torchthemummy ("About everything we do around here is government intrusion in people's lives." Ray LaHood)
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To: Palmetto Patriot
Good for that judge. The NC Secretary of State (a liberal Democrat) has a smarmy reply to the Republican complaint posted on the SOS website, noting how disingenuous the Republicans are for "trying to imply this is a widespread problem that favors the Democrats" or something like that.

And of course stating (as the Rat SOS in Nevada did too) that there is no evidence whatsoever of any fraud, and the problem with the voting machines was simply due to the Republican voters "brushing" the screen the wrong way.

Yeah. That must be it.

9 posted on 10/30/2010 7:32:53 PM PDT by PermaRag (the stock market will stop bleeding when those who manipulate it START bleeding)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Why not a receipt with a running tally for your vote and all votes cast?

That would end fraud completely, no?


10 posted on 10/30/2010 7:36:39 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

As long as the machines are in service, we’re screwed. They should have been ordered out of service.

The GOP should have tested and inspected every machine well before early voting started. As usual, the GOP is a day late and a dollar short. They are so lame, it’d be funny if it wasn’t so serious.


11 posted on 10/30/2010 7:41:13 PM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants)....... would step ince 2006,up)
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To: nnn0jeh

ping


12 posted on 10/30/2010 7:42:42 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It is what you can’t see that should worry you.


13 posted on 10/30/2010 7:47:09 PM PDT by Revel
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To: cripplecreek

We fill in the oval and feed them into the scanner.

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Same here in Florida.


14 posted on 10/30/2010 7:51:58 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: mykdsmom

We use the same method here, works great and I never hear complaints. Don’t know why everyone doesn’t since these electronic machines are too easy to tamper with.


15 posted on 10/30/2010 7:56:11 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Palmetto Patriot
Since most vote fraud is committed by the left, eliminating computerized voting machines should be a conservative political priority.

Will this be the election that teaches the public about the risks inherent to computerized voting?

16 posted on 10/30/2010 7:56:29 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Palmetto Patriot
Thanks for posting this. Corrupt elections are becoming the norm after Acorn in the last election. They need to address this now to help head off more of this in 2012.
17 posted on 10/30/2010 7:58:18 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: Palmetto Patriot
Princeton researchers show how to hack a Diebold voting machine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cxSJwG9Q0

18 posted on 10/30/2010 8:02:08 PM PDT by TChad
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To: FlingWingFlyer
That's called "evidence" in legal lingo.

That's great and let shed the light on theses "*cockroaches" to the public....
IIRC, All OK Elections has "paper backup".

*w/ humble apologies to the cockroaches.


19 posted on 10/30/2010 8:09:10 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Imam Zer0: DeathCARE, Is my plan...So just die (quicky), please & save $$$$ :^)
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To: Revel

Hence the reason for the printout. 10.00 bucks worth of gas comes with a printout, why not an election.


20 posted on 10/30/2010 8:22:01 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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