Ah, Those Voting Machines

I’m not saying there was fraud in the New Hampshire primary, but the fine folks at Brad Blog are coming up with some most “interesting” numbers. I always do try to keep one wary eye on anything to do with electronic voting machines, so this certainly caught my attention tonight..

7 Point Swing for Clinton Over Obama in NH’s Diebold Precincts

It’s been an exhausting day, as a few folks in the world are finally beginning to open their eyes, and realize that not counting ballots, and trusting instead, in error-prone, hackable machines for “faith-based results” doesn’t make a lot of sense. Particularly in an election for which nobody — and [...]

On the other hand, a blogger over at Daily Kos says there’s no problem:

Enough with the “Diebold Hacked the NH Primary” Lunacy

New Hampshire has no touchscreen voting. None. Every ballot cast in New Hampshire except those few cast by the handicapped is written on a piece of paper. It’s redundant to say this after the previous comment about touchscreen voting, but let’s make it clear: in New Hampshire there is [...]

And the whole thing is getting some MSM attention:

Bloggers form theory New Hampshire vote was rigged

AUSTIN – The results weren’t even in when the blogosphere started to hum with a theory that sharply divided Democrats online […]

Tags: 2008 Election, Electronic Voting Machines

Crossposted at http://www.ivoter08.com and The Krile Files