Snohomish county, Washington - evidence of systematic machine fraud

[tex-wyo-dem]

This was posted by Land Shark on http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x283060 and I thought it was important enough to make it it's own thread (with permission from Land Shark).

Land Shark wrote:

In Snohomish county, Washington I just reviewed the audit logs for all 933 Sequoia machines. The logs feature state that at least 98 different "screen calibration" routines were run on Election Day among 933 machines. Accounting for machines that had more than one calibration, 81 different machines had to be recalibrated because the touch screens were "anomalously" selecting Republicans.

That's about 9% of the machines actually getting intervention. An unknown additional number were just allowed to sit or the problem wasn't noticed on.

These audit log numbers overlap reports from election workers, so 81 machines out of 933 appears to be a HARD and MINIMUM number of "screen calibration problems".

Details on how the machines that were switched off due to malfunctions and voted heavily for republican Dino Rossi is in the detailed study at
http://www.votersunite.org/info/SnohomishElectionFraudInvestigation.pdf

Quote in report written by Land Shark:

"However, to use the misleading terminology anyway, if “the screen” was off by half an inch, it remains unexplained why the machines that were taking Democratic votes to be Republican votes (the line just below Democrats), were not also taking Republican votes and making them Libertarian votes, (the line just below Republicans) with similarly
large numbers of complaints from Republicans about “screen calibration issues”. Indeed, it might also be asked why no Republican votes were recorded as Democratic, though a true screen calibration defect would not produce errors in both directions at the same time, one would expect a calibration issue to occasionally go in the up direction and not just the down direction. Interestingly, the reports of these screen calibration problems" were virtually all on major ticket races, and not on the various issues and candidates that were lower on the ticket, even though some of the lower races are in the same position on
the screen as the earlier major ticket races, and thus should be subject to the same “miscalibration” problems, even if the miscalibration was somehow isolated to one portion of the screen.