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Florida Election software Flips Vote: Losers Certified as Winners

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Election officials always say "human error" is to blame, not computers. But Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher refuses to be silent about her concerns for elections including the upcoming presidential election. Bucher said: "You know the first thing that they tell you is you re going to scare the voters, Bucher said. "Well you know what we re scared too. Bucher is scared because her office discovered, and then proved, that a software error flipped vote totals between candidates, assigning losing candidate's the vote totals of the winning candidate. Winners of at least two local races from March had previously been announced and certified, but had to be reversed because of the software problem. Bucher is concerned that many problems will not be detected by the required audits, and that the presidential election could be affected.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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