I had a two card ballot this year. The totalizer number on the ballot receiving machine only registered one vote after I inserted both pages. I can’t believe that other jurisdictions didn’t calibrate their machines correctly.
What would the machine have registered if you had only inserted one card and walked out with the other one???
And if you inserted only page 1 and somebody behind you inserted only page 2, would 2 undervotes be recorded, or only one complete vote?
What I’m saying is that if people are allowed to walk off with half of their ballot and there is no internal way for the computer to know how many complete BALLOTS were handed out, then the system is almost DESIGNED to allow fraud, since there is no way to audit the results.
If they had a way to know the number of BALLOTS cast, then it was stupid of them to use the field for the number of CARDS cast to calculate the turnout for the Presidential race. Only the first card would apply to the Presidential race. If they wanted to make the calculation reflect the turnout in the Presidential race alone (which is what that page of the report was about, not about the entire ballot), they should have counted how many PAGE ONE CARDS were cast.
If the writers of this software were this negligent then their incompetence is dangerous. If they made this flawed design deliberately then their treason/lawlessness is dangerous. Take your pick.
There are other fish to fry with this particular elections office. Hopefully Allen West will fry the fish from his end. Apparently Romney doesn’t have the stones to fry his own fish.