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Zeese Calls for Hand Recount in Busby/Bilbray Election

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Tuesday, 20 June 2006

It is impossible to have confidence in the vote count in the Busby/Bilbray election when the security of the electronic voting machines was so lax, e.g. allowing judges to take machines home the night before, when combined with the well documented ease of manipulating the machines in ways that could effect the vote count by itself raises serious doubts about the accuracy of the vote count. Election officials in California and throughout the country know that the machines used include illegal interpreted code that allow for manipulation of election results. The security holes in these machines allow for software to be changed in ways that could effect the vote counting in a matter of minutes, and yet these machines were without security for many hours. In order for this election to be accepted as legitimate there must be a full, transparent hand recount of the voter verified paper ballots. Thankfully, California -- unlike my home state of Maryland, requires a voter verified paper ballot -- but there is no use to this ballot if it is not used when doubts are raised. The resistance to this recount only adds to the lack of confidence in the election results. This is an issue of national importance as Americans are losing confidence in the basis of U.S. democracy -- ensuring that every vote is collected and counted as the voter intended. A transparent recount can only have positive effects no matter what the outcome.

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green engineer
Written by seeking truth on 2006-07-07 19:35:34

Please, please, continue to push this issue. I voted for Busby via paper Absentee Ballot in both the special primary and the June election. Busby did a very smart thing, I believe, by sending AB applications to prospective voters; I am sure many others who do not trust the voting system also chose the AB route.
By my calculations, if she received 2/3 to 3/4 of the AB vote, which she could easily have done if her strategy paid off, she would have won the special primary. I checked every venue I could find and never found a final vote count (with ABs and other non-regular ballots) for either the primary or the June vote.
Can you find out? And print the results in The Nation magazine?
Thanks - keep up the pressure and the good works.

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