Three congressmen sent a letter to the General Accounting Office on Friday requesting an investigation into irregularities with voting machines used in Tuesday's elections.
The congressmen, Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Florida, New York and Michigan, cited a number of incidents that came to light in the days after the election. One was a glitch in Ohio that caused a memory card reader made by Danaher Controls to give George W. Bush 3,893 more votes than he should have received. Another was a problem with memory cards in North Carolina that caused machines made by UniLect to lose 4,500 votes cast on e-voting machines. The votes were lost when the number of votes cast on the machines exceeded the capacity of the memory cards.
In their letter, representatives John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Jerrold Nadler of New York and Robert Wexler of Florida asked the GAO to "immediately undertake an investigation of the efficacy of voting machines and new technologies used in the 2004 election, how election officials responded to difficulties they encountered and what we can do in the future to improve our election systems and administration."
More ... http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65623,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
Wired states in one of article approx two months ago that they know that election will go to Bush regardless of how many voters has voted for Kerry. Wired already warned about e-voting machine 'fix' and in the end, they are right. btw, Wired is full of geniuses.
Anyway, about time that democrats with backbone to stand up and investigate.
The congressmen, Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Florida, New York and Michigan, cited a number of incidents that came to light in the days after the election. One was a glitch in Ohio that caused a memory card reader made by Danaher Controls to give George W. Bush 3,893 more votes than he should have received. Another was a problem with memory cards in North Carolina that caused machines made by UniLect to lose 4,500 votes cast on e-voting machines. The votes were lost when the number of votes cast on the machines exceeded the capacity of the memory cards.
In their letter, representatives John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Jerrold Nadler of New York and Robert Wexler of Florida asked the GAO to "immediately undertake an investigation of the efficacy of voting machines and new technologies used in the 2004 election, how election officials responded to difficulties they encountered and what we can do in the future to improve our election systems and administration."
More ... http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65623,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
Wired states in one of article approx two months ago that they know that election will go to Bush regardless of how many voters has voted for Kerry. Wired already warned about e-voting machine 'fix' and in the end, they are right. btw, Wired is full of geniuses.
Anyway, about time that democrats with backbone to stand up and investigate.