Elliott C. Back: Technology FTW!

Wait–Bush won?!?

Posted in Computers & Technology, Politics by Elliott Back on November 5th, 2004.

Wait? Bush won the election? How did that happen? Let me present an interesting set of links:

www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm

The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”

cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1131&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041105%2F1156851804.htm&sc=1131&photoid=20041104WHRE106

An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65601,00.html

More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state. Local officials said UniLect, the maker of the county’s electronic voting system, told them that each storage unit could handle 10,500 votes, but the limit was actually 3,005 votes.

Dislaimer: No one is going to look for machines that were rigged to vote for Kerry…

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