{"id":9,"date":"2004-11-05T11:33:28","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=9"},"modified":"2004-11-05T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T18:33:28","slug":"bush-gets-4258-out-of-638-votes-in-one-oh-precinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Bush gets 4,258 out of 638 votes in one OH precinct!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been accumulating anecdotes of voting issues for later tonight when I&#8217;ll have some time to read them more carefully, but <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=694&#038;ncid=703&#038;e=7&#038;u=\/ap\/20041105\/ap_on_el_pr\/voting_problems\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> is too striking to let sit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=694&#038;ncid=703&#038;e=7&#038;u=\/ap\/20041105\/ap_on_el_pr\/voting_problems\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Franklin County&#8217;s unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry (news &#8211; web sites)&#8217;s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.<\/p>\n<p>Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmm &#8230; a 136,000 vote Bush lead \/ (4258 &#8211; 638 = 3620) = 37 and change.<\/p>\n<p>How many precincts were using this equipment?  37 machines with a similar flaw in similar magnitude changes <i>everything<\/i>, and once provisional ballots are considered the number probably doesn&#8217;t need to be anywhere near as large.<\/p>\n<p>I swore I wasn&#8217;t going to let my tin-foil hat point in this direction, but this really needs some explanation.<\/p>\n<p>A question I&#8217;ve been asking a lot lately is:  <b>Why don&#8217;t we have someone publicly accounting for why it&#8217;s OK that electronic voting machines aren&#8217;t auditable?<\/b>  More on that later &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been accumulating anecdotes of voting issues for later tonight when I&#8217;ll have some time to read them more carefully, but this one is too striking to let sit: Franklin County&#8217;s unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry (news &#8211; web sites)&#8217;s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show <a href='https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=9'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}