18 new voting machines go missing in Broward

Sun -Sentinal ^ | 10/17/02 | Buddy Nevins and Scott Wyman

[windchime]

Thanks for the ping, Joe.

[sport]

Commissioner Suzanne Gunzburger said. "This is taxpayer dollars being wasted, and I'm just appalled."

Bull crap!

If she was upset, why does she not try to correct the problem?

How? By having a Grand Jury investigate and indict the SoE.

Then convict the Soe and send her to prison.

[floriduh voter]

And I was concerned that they would hack into the touch screen system. But, they took the low tech approach instead: FELONY BURGLARY.

[js1138]

GEE! I THOUGHT THE STAIN WAS MOVED TO SOUTH DAKOTA

The stain has never been on Florida. It's been on the democrats. It will show up wherever there is enough light to see. Any state that can't see it is still in the dark.

[Republic]

This county needs to go to the hand ballot system-SIGNED hand ballot system. Those machines could be rigged, could be brought into play on election day-silently added to various voting precincts and none would be the wiser. It is time to halt this nonsense and blow this scheme out of the water. Shame on these democrat districts who call foul play when it is THEY who are to blame. STOP THE CHEATING! (Course-if the cheating is stopped, how will a democrat EVER win? Hmmmmmm.)

[floriduh voter]

Well, we will have to "shout it out" (the stain) if McBride cheats and steals the election. They want him in there badly. But, if they want to toy with us, the front lines - us are experienced under adversity and the pubbies always have better attorneys. Gee, even their attorneys are CROOKED. Florida Circuit Court Judges don't like out of state, smarmy lawyers like David Boies.

[cyncooper]

It is time to halt this nonsense and blow this scheme out of the water.

Amen and BUMP.

[desertcry]

But, it's always Gov. Bush's fault, the democrats says.

[LaGrone]

They will show up election night full of demonrat votes. The 'Rats down there literally can't do one thing right in regards to voting and counting votes. They can't think enough to know how to place controls to ensure fairness. Losers one losers all.

[Rome2000]

"This is very serious," Cotter said. "This is $54,000 in taxpayers' money that we can't find. ... No records, or very inadequate records, were apparently maintained of who took the machines from the warehouse and where they were going."

If the rats are taking it so goddamned seriously why isn't the demented Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne and the rest of his yahoos arresting people?.

I guarantee that this type of flagrant fraud is going to suceed unless people start getting locked up.

If the situation was reversed, rat prosecutors and law enforcement would have people in handcuffs in a New York minute.

If the GOP isn't willing to fight the rats on their own terms they deserve to lose.

[Dan Day]

Oh, they'll turn up all right. On election night, with just enough votes for McLawyer and a bunch of other crooked Dems to "squeak" by their Republican opponents.

Most of the replies to this thread presume that the "missing" machines would have to be tampered with and then returned to the ballot places in order to inject bogus votes into the election.

THIS IS NOT NECESSARY FOR FRAUD TO OCCUR

As a programmer, here's what I'd do...

1. Get my hands on one or more stolen machines.

2. Play with them as long as necessary to figure out exactly how they work, what safeguards they contain, and more importantly do *not* contain, and how the software in the machines is updated (no computerized piece of equipment these days is entirely *hardwired*, they all have ways to insert a floppy disk or whatever containing bug fixes, upgrades, adjustments for new data requirements, etc.)

3. *Then*, I'd just write a software "upgrade" for that model of machine (and test it well on my stolen machine) which could modify the behavior of *any* such voting machine in order to make it favor my candidate.

4. Now all I'd have to do is sneak the upgrade into one or more of the machines which are *not* stolen, and presumed "pristine" -- or *all* of them, if the election board is stupid enough to hook these machines up to phone lines for "automatic updates" or "automatic vote reporting".

"Hey, Harry, the manufacturer has a last-minute update for all the machines in this precinct, could you load it for me?"

Done right, the modified software would even self-destruct after the dirty deed had been done, and restore itself to be identical to the manufacturer's actual most recent release, at which point the machines would test as "untampered" no matter how closely they were inspected.

[MeekOneGOP]

Remember the bees & honey adage.

You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.....

[Libloather]

Evening bump...

[BJungNan]

Because their value is largely limited to voting, Cotter thinks the machines have been misplaced.

I couldn't possibly think of another value voting machines might have to someone. Was there a reporter on this story?

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Taken from the DNC playbook, don't vote just once, vote 10 times. Bush/Cheney 2004

[mewzilla]

The machines will turn up after they've been, er...repaired.

[TaxRelief]

First the machines and now 57,000 absentee ballots...

[Joe Brower]

[dfwgator]

Thank God I escaped Broward County for Texas.

[Joe Brower]

WHOOPS! OLD NEWS ALERT!

Sorry, folks! I got a bum steer. Please disregard.