Votes Flipped in TENN...to Cynthia McKinney!

[dutch508]

Not even the people in TENN voted for Gore...

UncountedMary (28 posts)        Mon Oct-20-08 08:03 PM
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This political season, more than any other in recent memory, is irony-filled. So why this incident involving my friend and the wife of UNCOUNTED filmmaker, David Earnhardt, surprises me, I can't tell you.


My wife, Patricia Earnhardt, had an early voting experience here in Nashville, Tennessee, where she saw her vote momentarily flip from Barack Obama to Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney. She voted on a touch-screen paperless machine. Here is her story:

"A poll worker directed me to a touch screen voting machine & instructed me how to use it. I touched "Obama" for president & nothing lit up. I touched 2 or 3 more times & still nothing lit up. I called the poll worker back over to tell him I was having a problem. He said I just needed to touch it more lightly. I tried it 2 or 3 more times more lightly with the poll worker watching & still nothing lit up. The poll worker then touched it for me twice -- nothing lit up. The third time he touched the Obama button, the Cynthia McKinney space lit up! The McKinney button was located five rows below the Obama button. The poll worker just kind of laughed and cancelled the vote. He hit the Obama button again & it finally lit up. I continued on to cast the rest of my votes. After completing the process & reviewing my votes, I went to the VOTE page, hit the VOTE button & nothing happened. Again after several tries, I called the poll worker over & he finally got the machine to register my votes." Patricia Earnhardt - Friday, Oct. 17 - Howard School Building - Nashville, Tennessee

I also had similar problems with the machine I was voting on that same day, although no vote flipping. I would touch the screen numerous times before I could get my various candidate choices to light up. It was strange and very frustrating. When I finally got through my slate of candidate choices, I could not get the VOTE button to light up when I touched it. I finally called over a poll worker and he told me that I needed to touch lightly. I touched the VOTE button more lightly, but was only able to get it to work after several more failed attempts.

David Earnhardt
Producer/director/writer, "Uncounted"
www.UncountedTheMovie.com


Need more sad irony? The machines David and Patricia voted on in Davidson County, TN - ES&S iVotronic - are the same machines used in the West Virginia counties (Putnam & Jackson) where vote flipping is also being reported. Go to the election info page on the state of Tennessee and click on Davidson County. Or download this PDF.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Please, if you experience anything unusual, stay at your polling place, ask to speak with the supervisor, call the election commission (they will have the number), and insist that the machine be quarantined until it can be examined.
 

teh Rove is one subtle bastard.

[thundley4]

It would be too obvious if McCain/Palin won in a landslide.  The better plan is to have a close race with more Obama votes being "flipped" to another lefty favorite like Cynthia McKinney. All Hail teh Rove.

[Chris]

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Please, if you experience anything unusual, stay at your polling place, ask to speak with the supervisor, call the election commission (they will have the number), and insist that the machine be quarantined until it can be examined.

The state already has a limited number of voting machines, based on county and district population.  And this moonbat wants to demand that an already-finite resource (a single voting machine) be "quarantined".  Wouldn't that prevent that many more people from being able to vote, disenfranchising even more likely Democrat voters?

[LC EFA]

David Earnhardt made a film:

UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary that shows how the election fraud that changed the outcome of the 2004 election led to even greater fraud in 2006 - and now looms as an unbridled threat to the outcome of the 2008 election. This controversial feature length film by Emmy award-winning director David Earnhardt examines in factual, logical, and yet startling terms how easy it is to change election outcomes and undermine election integrity across the U.S. Noted computer programmers, statisticians, journalists, and experienced election officials provide the irrefutable proof.

Mighty err, convenient that both him and his wife had the machines "switch their votes" now innit.

[Lord Undies]

David Earnhardt made a film:

Mighty err, convenient that both him and his wife had the machines "switch their votes" now innit.

I don't give a flying crate of chittle what keeps Obama Hussein from winning.  I embrace "racism" and DUmmie projection. 

[DixieBelle]

Oh God, not this sh*t again.

[Chris]

Oh God, not this sh*t again.

You expected something different, maybe?

[DixieBelle]

Yeah, I'm insane aren't I?

[GOBUCKS]

It would be too obvious if McCain/Palin won in a landslide.  The better plan is to have a close race with more Obama votes being "flipped" to another lefty favorite like Cynthia McKinney. All Hail teh Rove.

That's nothing.

So, anyway, I was down at the local corner grocery, filling my cloth bag with organic yogurt, and overheard a fellow complaining about the voting machine he used in early voting.

He tried to vote for Cynthia McKinney, but every time he touched her name, the "write-in" space would light up with "Sheila Jackson Lee".

I am really concerned that the Lee organization has its tentacles wrapped around this election.

[Airwolf]

Thats nothing. We had to get my father an absebtee ballot and when we took it in to be counted the person behind the counter took it and scratched out my fathers vote and wrote in the words  "Machine gun". It's a plot I telll you!!!!!!!!

[DumbAss Tanker]

Sounds like the advanced telepathic communication ability was enabled on that machine, and it picked up her mental confusion then zeored in on her inner Moonbat and chose 'McKinney.'  We'll need to send the 'reset' signal out to that unit, the capability isn't supposed to go on-line until AFTER we round up all the head cases.