Posted on 11/08/2014 7:55:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Not that it mattered, of course. Greg Abbott absolutely routed his opponent in the general election on Tuesday night. But it is disconcerting that when a voter went to pull the lever for the governor-elect, his name was...nowhere to be found. Instead, former Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s name appeared, a guy who ran for a completely different office in Texas and lost in the primary:
The company that supplies Bexar County with iVotronic ballot machines acknowledged Wednesday that a glitch caused an electronic ballot to display the wrong name for the Republican candidate in the race for Texas governor.
A written statement from Election Systems & Software said a faulty memory card appeared to be the reason why GOP candidate Greg Abbott’s name was missing from the ballot. In his place was Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. “I’m happy they were able to find the glitch,” said San Antonio voter Jade Stanford, who took two cell phone photos of the error that immediately went viral on the Internet. “It wasn’t Photoshop, it wasn’t botched, it was real.”
This was reportedly the only machine in Texas that left Abbott off the ballot. Or so we're told. Read the company’s full statement below (via Breitbart):
On November 4, 2014, an issue was reported with a single voting unit in a Bexar County precinct in the General Election. An initial analysis by Bexar County and the ES&S technician on site has confirmed that the unit in question was not functioning properly and was incorrectly displaying a candidate in one race on the touch screen. The unit in question was immediately removed from use and no further issues were reported. There were a total of 12 votes cast on the unit and all votes were tabulated correctly. The results tape did reflect the correct candidates for that race and no votes for compromised. While it currently appears that a faulty memory card is at issue, a full review and diagnostic test is underway to determine and validate the exact cause of this issue. Once this review is complete, ES&S will provide a report to Bexar County detailing the outcome of the forensic analysis. Bexar County followed proper protocol and procedure in all testing, coding and equipment preparation.
That was from Blanche Deveroux on Golden Girls when she thought that her jewels had been burgled from her home.
Why, why, why, why do we have a “private” company managing the vote? You might say it is better than the government but why isn’t it a bipartisan managed independent agency?
Fraud has to be rampant.
That centuries old paper technology still looks pretty good.....
Anything that undermines public confidence in the integrity of the vote matters!
Hey, we have a private company managing our money supply -- the Fed Reserve.
It's not like it's Fascism, or anything. It's just Big Government and Big Business gettin' all cozy-like.
Why should we trust a uniparty-controlled agency?
And the asshat woman in charge of elections refused to apologize to the voter who reported the problem.
A "Glitch?!"
Why are these "glitches" one-way?
Why do they ALWAYS work in favor of the Democrat?
A "Glitch" would be random.
Test run for planned non-obamaland voters.
Heck yes.
I always liked our optical scanner system with paper ballots and #2 pencils. Here they called that “old fashioned” and went full on computer. Hate em.
I forgot to add..refused to apologize after going on every tv news broadcast in SA, and calling Jade Stanford a liar, and photo-shopping fraud.
I am very surprised at how many people don’t realize the Fed Reserve is privately owned.
Absolutely. The subtle point here is that there are two means of changing our leadership: Peacefully through elections or violently.
When people lose confidence in the process, they tend to resort to the latter and no one wants that.
My thought exactly. We never see “glitches” that benefit the pubbies.
Is that genuine?
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