An Update on Ohio
Yesterday, the Kerry/Edwards campaign filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to preserve evidence related to alleged election fraud, and to get a sworn deposition from some folks from Triad (the company that produced and maintained the voting machines in Hocking County, OH). This comes after The nice people in the Green and Libertarian Parties filed similar motions.
this filing amounts to a "Me, too" from the Kerry/Edwards campaign. This case would not exist in any form without the dedicated efforts of Green Party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik. Though the inclusion of Kerry into this matter strengthens the case significantly, Cobb and Badnarik deserve the lion's share of credit for carrying the matter to this point.
I guess this technician from Triad showed up unannounced and said he was there to see if they had any questions about the recount. Then he went into the back room where the tabulator was and said there was a problem, the computer had a low battery and had lost all it's data. He then started swapping out parts from another PC. Some people think he might have had spare parts in his jacket because it was really heavy. When he finally got it re-assembled, he told them not to turn it off.
Now, I've had a 386 PC back in 1994 that had a low battery, and I was instructed not to turn it off, but this still seems a little odd. If he replaced the battery from another PC, they wouldn't have had that problem. With a working battery, they could turn it on and off all willy nilly all day long. And if "the data was lost," how did he "get it back?"
Then, he then asked which precinct would be counted for the 3% recount
test, and the one which had been selected as it had the right number of
votes, was relayed to him. He then went back and did something else to
the tabulator computer. The Triad Systems representative suggested that
since the hand count had to match the machine count exactly, and since
it would be hard to memorize the several numbers which would be needed
to get the count to come out exactly right, that they should post this
series of numbers on the wall where they would not be noticed by
observers."
this filing amounts to a "Me, too" from the Kerry/Edwards campaign. This case would not exist in any form without the dedicated efforts of Green Party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik. Though the inclusion of Kerry into this matter strengthens the case significantly, Cobb and Badnarik deserve the lion's share of credit for carrying the matter to this point.
I guess this technician from Triad showed up unannounced and said he was there to see if they had any questions about the recount. Then he went into the back room where the tabulator was and said there was a problem, the computer had a low battery and had lost all it's data. He then started swapping out parts from another PC. Some people think he might have had spare parts in his jacket because it was really heavy. When he finally got it re-assembled, he told them not to turn it off.
Now, I've had a 386 PC back in 1994 that had a low battery, and I was instructed not to turn it off, but this still seems a little odd. If he replaced the battery from another PC, they wouldn't have had that problem. With a working battery, they could turn it on and off all willy nilly all day long. And if "the data was lost," how did he "get it back?"
Then, he then asked which precinct would be counted for the 3% recount
test, and the one which had been selected as it had the right number of
votes, was relayed to him. He then went back and did something else to
the tabulator computer. The Triad Systems representative suggested that
since the hand count had to match the machine count exactly, and since
it would be hard to memorize the several numbers which would be needed
to get the count to come out exactly right, that they should post this
series of numbers on the wall where they would not be noticed by
observers."
posted by cookie christine @ 12/28/2004
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