AP: Computer error at voting machine gives Bush 3,893 extra votes

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct.

Franklin County’s unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry’s 260 votes in Precinct 1B. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.

Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Bush received 365 votes there. The other 13 voters who cast ballots either voted for other candidates or did not vote for president.

Damschroder said he received some calls Thursday from people who saw the error when reading the list of poll results on the election board’s Web site.

He said the error would have been discovered when the official canvass for the election is performed later this month.

Damschroder said after Precinct 1B closed, a cartridge from one of three voting machines at the polling place generated a faulty number at a computerized reading station.

The reader also recorded zero votes in a county commissioner race.

Damschroder said the cartridge was retested Thursday and there were no problems. He couldn’t explain why the computer reader malfunctioned.

Workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in the voting machine Thursday and each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine. With the other machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up to 365 votes.

Information from: The Columbus Dispatch

Original story here.

10 thoughts on “AP: Computer error at voting machine gives Bush 3,893 extra votes

  1. Merely one example from the link above:

    Machine Malfuntion: FL – Broward County, ES&S vote tabulating software used for absentee ballots “Is not geared to count more than 32,000 vote in a precinct.”

    So what happens when it gets to 32,000 is the software starts counting backward. Amendment 4 passed in Broward County by more than 240,000 votes rather than the 166,000-vote margin reported Wednesday night. ES&S has known about the problem for TWO YEARS and has done nothing about it.

    This is just one example……

  2. John Kerry’s speech: 11/03/04:

    “I would not give up this fight if there was a chance that we would prevail. But it is now clear that even when all the provisional ballots are counted, which they will be, there won’t be enough outstanding votes for us to be able to win Ohio. And therefore, we can not win this election.”

    John needs to go visit that link I just posted.

    Something is rotten………. And it’s not just Ohio…..

  3. Posted on yahoo about an hour or so ago:

    (Quoted from his reply, referring to the subject at the top of this thread)

    “Deducting the erroneous Bush votes from his total could not change the election’s outcome, and there were no signs of other errors in Ohio’s electronic machines, said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.”

    “No signs of other errors in Ohio’s electronic machines.” ?????????????????

    Ok, it’s obvious now, this was rigged. End of story. I’d even recommend drug testing cuz this guy is obviously on drugs.

    Mr Blackwell, needs to go visit that link as well.

  4. That’s all I’m going to post because if I looked any further I think I’ll vomit. Yeah, majority right. Majority of criminals.

    Morals my ass.

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