{"id":15990,"date":"2016-03-01T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=15990"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T20:00:05","slug":"voting-machine-irregularities-in-lowndes-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/voting-machine-irregularities-in-lowndes-county.html","title":{"rendered":"Voting machine irregularities in Lowndes County?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nAfter seeing reports of Democrats being required to vote provisionally\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nin three different polling places (Clyattville, Hahira, and Trinity Baptist Church), I called Lowndes County Elections Supervisor Deb Cox at 229-671-2850.\r\n

\r\nShe said the problem was in creating the cards for voting, not in the actual voting machines.\r\nA separate machine called an Express Poll creates the cards.\r\nShe said it was in the program on the Express Poll machines, which was uploaded improperly. The result was that some people couldn’t get cards.\r\nMeanwhile, people could still vote using provisional ballots.\r\nShe says it’s been fixed, and nobody has reported any problems since early this morning.\r\nThis is the same thing she told Valdosta Today<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nWhen I told her people had also been reporting that they got a card and found that they were marked as Republican when they asked for a Democratic ballot.\r\nDeb Cox said nobody has reported that to her.\r\nShe asks for anybody who sees that or any other voting problems to please\r\ncall her office,\r\n229-671-2850.\r\n

\r\nIf you have any difficulties, ask for a provisional ballot and call that number.\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nI also reminded her that I had pointed out years ago that\r\nthe electronic voting machines Lowndes County uses had been established\r\nby experts in the field to be easy to subvert.\r\nI assured her that nobody was accusing her of anything, but the point\r\nremains that somebody else easily could subvert the voting machines\r\nand we have no paper trail.\r\nSee for example \r\nVote Flipping and Touchscreens<\/a>, by Matt Blaze, 3 November 2008.\r\nDeb Cox said as she had back then that that was above her pay grade.\r\nDecisions on what hardware and software to use for voting are made in Atlanta.\r\nWe need to get that fixed.\r\n

\r\nMeanwhile, get out and vote!\r\n

\r\nThe best prevention of vote flipping is massive voting.\r\nAnd it can be detected statistically after the fact,\r\nas for example\r\n\r\nappears to be the case for Kansas<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nSo the best thing to do is to go vote!\r\n

\r\nIf you don’t know where, check\r\n\r\nMy Voter Page<\/a> by the Georgia Secretary of State.\r\nIf you need directions, see the handy Lowndes County Board of Elections\r\n\r\nlist of precincts with links to maps<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nIt’s primary election day!\r\n

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