USCountVotes: Evidence of Election Irregularities in Snohomish County, WA

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EVIDENCE OF ELECTION IRREGULARITIES IN
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON
GENERAL ELECTION, 2004

By Paul R. Lehto, J.D., Attorney at Law
[email protected]
Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, Ph.D.
[email protected]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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• The chances that 2/3 of the vote would show a Democratic lead of 97044 to
95228 votes, while the remaining 1/3 of the vote on touch screens would show a
Republican lead of almost 5% (50,400 Republican to 42,145 Democratic) as a
result of voters randomly choosing whether to vote by paper ballot or by touch
screen is one in 1,000 trillion! A true impossibility.
• Simple mechanisms exist for multiple voting or hacking the Sequoia touch screen
machines by single individuals, and they are further identified in the paper.
• Machines with repair histories within two weeks of the election or exhibiting
problems on election day with observed vote switching, prevoted ballots, or
freezing up performed better than the average Republican gain in the governor’s
race on election day (of just under 5%) in 46 out of 58 polling locations, and did
better than the absentee results for the same precincts in 56 out of 58 polling
locations. In the remaining two instances, electronic results were roughly equal to
absentee results.
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• Given the coincidence of observed vote switching behavior doing this very thing
with actual precinct results reporting enhanced Republican outcomes relative to
absentee paper ballots, the probability is that Democratic votes and/or undervotes
are being assigned improperly to Republican candidates and contrary to at least
some voters’ intent, and forensic analysis of the machines along with their
impoundment is necessary to rule this out.
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Rest of the report here.