Electronic Voter Fraud in Kentucky
I just came across this story in my travels. The story is about indictments in KY of election officials for changing electronic votes at the voting machine.
Basically, the voters would cast their votes and press the “VOTE” button at the bottom of the ballot. Then they would walk out. The vote button actually was programmed to bring up a confirmation of the ballot. Many voters would just walk out of the voting booth. The poll workers that were in on the fraud would then step into the booth and change the votes to whatever they wanted.
We need to have auditable voting machines.
Tags: Voting
Did you check out the party label on the perps. It is the word that starts with “D” and ends with “emocrat”.
Republican rat bastards. To cheat like this is worse than taking a crap on the flag or pissing on George Washington’s grave.
It is stuff like that that convinces me that Republicans don’t give a shit about our democracy.
I really don’t care what their registration is. Throw ’em in jail and lose the key.
Rhymes,
That’s why two of the perps ran in a 2002 Republican primary.
Although – I love how the paper gives one person’s party affiliation.
Just a coincendence I guess.
Jason — where do you get that info? It certainly isn’t in the post linked to by this article, or the article I linked to from my site.
The voter scandal was a democratic one. They did bribe a Republican vote judge to participate in getting them votes. That hardly makes Republicans the beneficiaries.
Evil Democrats and evil Republican traitor.
I see our link spammer “White is Right” is back.
Again, this guy has a right-wing for-profit blog, and he posts here just to improve his Google ranking.
If DL wants to support and promote his site with free advertising, keep letting him post here but understand he is simply a wingnut spammer.
Voter integrity: Paper ballots, marked by #2 pencils, counted by two cranky senior citizens from different parties.
all ballots should be replaced with the “clap-o-meter” make some NOIZ for your pick people! whoever makes the most wins!!!
That depends on what you are suggesting. Does he write his own posts on his blog? Does he write his own comments here at DL? Does he comment here at the roughly same frequency as the rest of our commenters? Are his comments relevant to the topic of the thread?
If the answers to all these are “yes”, and the comments are not threatening or racist, and the linked site is a normal blog, then I’m generally in favor of letting him link to his blog. If he profits from his blog, then bravo for him. Everyone who comments here is giving us traffic, so if he gets traffic back, I see that as an equal exchange.
PS: I will, however, recommend people not click on his link, because his site design is terrible and likely to crash your browser.
From kentucky.com, homepage of the Lexington Herald-Leader:
If all that you read was the BradBlog story that Mr Geek linked, you’d get the impression that this was a Republican problem. However, Republicans in Clay County don’t need to cheat, at least not in the general election: Clay County is solidly Republican, and has been for as long as I can remember. (I grew up in Kentucky.) The Democrats didn’t even mount a challenge to the incumbent Republican congressman, and the 5th District has been represented by a Republican since the 1950s. The judicial races, which were on the 2008 ballot, are non-partisan, and it’s the only place where Democrats can make a mark in Clay County.
It strikes me that someone feels threatened by a dissenting view here — and wants to turn a device for teaching people how to pronounce my unusually spelled last name is somehow a reference to white supremacy. I guess he/she believes it is more efficacious to silence contrary opinions and inconvenient facts than it is to deal with them in an intellectually honest fashion.
And don’t worry — a major site redesign is in the works.