{"id":968,"date":"2009-11-20T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2015-10-19T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T01:25:38","slug":"re-defeat-bill-owens-in-ny-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Re-Defeat Bill Owens in NY-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Or, Why Sarah Palin&#8217;s Coattails May Have Been Bigger than Credited<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gouverneurtimes.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=8144:virus-in-the-voting-machines-tainted-results-in-ny-23&amp;catid=60:st-lawrence-news&amp;Itemid=175\">Check this out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was a virus discovered in some of the voting machines in NY-23, which were reprogrammed just before the election; none of the other voting machines by that manufacturer used across the district were checked.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In Jefferson County, inspectors from four districts claim that &#8216;human error&#8217; resulted in their &#8216;mistakenly&#8217; entering 0 votes for Hoffman in several districts, resulting in Owens leading Jefferson County on election night though the recanvas of the computer counts now show that Hoffman is leading.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Doug Hoffman, the Conservative candidate in this election says that he was forced to concede after having been given erroneous election results on Nov. 3rd, in particular from Oswego County. Oswego County&#8217;s election night results were off by over 1,000 votes. . . . Hoffman is raising funds for a possible legal challenge to the results and requesting that the Boards of Election hand-count every vote. On Tuesday, he &#8216;unconceded&#8217; the race. In light of the current concerns over the accuracy of the machine-counted votes, Hoffman may now have a legitimate reason to contest the election results.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The ImageCast machines have one more significant and scary flaw: USB ports. . . . [Using these ports,] software hacks or remote control of the voting machine could be implemented or a virus introduced. Since standard count audits are only done on 3% of the machines unless there is a malfunction, a functional hack or software change could adjust election counts with the County or State Boards of Election none the wiser.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The manufacturer of the machines, Dominion\/Sequoia Voting Systems is the same company that Dan Rather accused of causing over 50,000 votes to go uncounted in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida due to intentional oversight. Rather&#8217;s report claimed that Sequoia was well aware of the issues but proceeded into the election utilizing an inferior product and told election workers and technicians to &#8216;ignore the problems.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And it goes on, and on, and on . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, Why Sarah Palin&#8217;s Coattails May Have Been Bigger than Credited Check this out: There was a virus discovered in some of the voting machines in NY-23, which were reprogrammed just before the election; none of the other voting machines by that manufacturer used across the district were checked. &#8220;In Jefferson County, inspectors from four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6R3Ax-fC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":985,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=985","url_meta":{"origin":968,"position":0},"title":"Thoughts on the off-year races","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"4 November 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Sarah Palin called last night\u2019s elections \u201cA Victory for Common Sense and Fiscal Sanity\u201d, and on the whole, I\u2019m inclined to agree with her: Congratulations to the new Governors-Elect of Virginia and New Jersey! 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