"Lee in Catonsville" (an election judge in Baltimore County) reported that the electronic poll books kept crashing.
"...something like every 63rd voter one of them would crash. And first it would be the first one, then it would be the second one, then it would be the third one, then it would be back over to the first one..."But more alarming to me, was this
"We had a problem in my precinct - on the electronic poll books it showed that at the end of the day, all of them were in agreement, 829 people had checked in and been issued the voter access card to vote electronically on the touch screen machines. We counted the total votes on the touch screen machines and there were 822 people who had cast ballots on those machines. Did seven people who walked in, stood in line to wait, got an access card then walk out without voting? I seriously doubt that. And I have no idea what happened to those seven votes but that’s eight tenths of a percent of the votes in that precinct that just disappeared. And, you know, in a general election who’s going to know that all isn’t off one candidate…"(my transcriptions above)
I’m wondering if the seven missing voters coincided with poll book crashes. If you want to suppress the vote in a precinct, maybe you can just arrange for the poll books to crash at a set interval.
There should, in my opinion be a forensic reenactment of the voting in this district using the same equipment. I am willing to give up a day’s work to go to the polling place and vote 829 times if need be.
You can listen to this Mark Steiner show (mp3) at http://tinyurl.com/nhrh3. The above call can be heard starting at about the 25:00 minute mark.
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