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Mystery of missing votes deepens as Congress investigates Georgia:
To find a clue about what might have gone wrong with Georgia's election last fall, look no further than voting machine No. 3 at the Winterville Train Depot outside Athens.
On machine No. 3, Republicans won every race. On each of the other six machines in that precinct, Democrats won every race.The odds of an anomaly that large are less than 1 in 1 million, according to a statistician's analysis in court documents. The strange results would disappear if votes for Democratic and Republican candidates were flipped on machine No. 3.
It just so happens that this occurred in Republican Brian Kemp's home precinct, where he initially had a problem voting when his yellow voter access card didn't work because a poll worker forgot to activate it. At the time, Kemp was secretary of state — Georgia's top election official — and running for governor in a tight contest with Democrat Stacey Abrams.
The suspicious results in Winterville are evidence in the ongoing mystery of whether errors with voting machines contributed to a stark drop-off in votes recorded in the race for Georgia lieutenant governor between Republican Geoff Duncan, who ended up winning, and Democrat Sarah Riggs Amico.
Even though it was the second race on the ballot, fewer votes were counted for lieutenant governor than for labor commissioner, insurance commissioner and every other statewide contest lower on the ballot. Roughly 80,000 fewer votes were counted for lieutenant governor than in other down-ballot elections.
The potential voting irregularities were included among 15,500 pages of documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that have also been turned over to the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is looking into Georgia's elections. The documents, provided under the Georgia Open Records Act, offer details of alleged voting irregularities but no answers.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office has refused to open an investigation. State election officials say the low number of votes could have been caused by low interest in the lieutenant governor's race or where that contest appeared on the ballot.
'It is not letting me vote for who I want': Video shows electronic machine changing ballot in Mississippi (Paywalled and/or Javascript required):
Over and over again, the man touches a box on an electronic voting machine to cast his ballot for Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Bill Waller Jr. And over and over again, the machine instead checks off a vote for Waller's opponent in Tuesday's GOP runoff, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.
"How would that happen?" a woman exclaims in the background.
"It is not letting me vote for who I want to vote for," the man says.
The moment, captured on a video uploaded to Facebook and Twitter, where it's gotten nearly 750,000 views as of early Wednesday, shows one of at least three malfunctioning voting machines reported in two counties in Mississippi, state elections officials confirmed.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday August 29 2019, @11:52PM (3 children)
It's one thing to find it. It's another thing to get to it, and a third thing to pay for the IDs. Those second 2 steps aren't free of charge, and often made deliberately difficult. For instance, in some areas getting to a DMV requires a full-day's journey by car, which means that if you don't have access to a car and a bunch of cash on hand for gas, you aren't going. And once you get there, sometimes they don't accept cash, but require you to pay with a check or credit card or money order, which means for poor people who often don't have bank accounts there's another fee to a money order company to pay the fee to the state.
I've been through these shenanigans in my state, which has a voter ID law. I have a relatively easy time of it, since I'm a well-to-do person with a car and a checkbook and disposable income. But not everybody is, and the people passing these laws allegedly to fix a non-existent know it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 30 2019, @12:21AM
Pretty sure our trolling friend knows this, and is attempting to project his own racism onto his opponents. It's old, stale, and about as effective as a chocolate jackhammer, but for some reason these poor saps never stop trying.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 30 2019, @12:22AM (1 child)
So, it's like, Mississippi DMV offices are located in southern Florida?
Please, find someplace in America where it takes four hours or more to drive from a residence to the DMV. If I tried, I might find such a place. Montana, Wyoming, or Utah, where the population density approaches 1 human being per square mile, or less.
You've been drinking that Kool-Aid, haven't you?
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Friday August 30 2019, @03:08AM
If you were true to your handle you'd...
But like everything you're saying here - it's a facetious facade. :(
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."