1) Why did anyone trust the Republicans to crate the databases and programs for use in the election? 2) Why is it that every glitch help Republicans? And this was going on long before the election.


Audit Lays Blames for Fla. Database Errors

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...a_felons_voting

By DAVID ROYSE, Associated Press Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida elections officials were lax in their oversight of the company that created a flawed database of felons and dead voters, but there was no intent to disenfranchise anyone, an internal audit of the project found.

The audit by the Department of State's inspector general, released Monday, concerned the state's now-canceled contract with the consulting firm Accenture, which was paid $2.3 million to create the database.

The list, primarily intended to help local elections officials purge voter rolls of convicted felons without voting rights and people who had died since the last election, matched a list of registered voters with other lists of deaths and criminal records sent in by other state agencies.

Secretary of State Glenda Hood's office abandoned the project earlier this year after acknowledging that 2,500 ex-felons were on the list even though their voting rights had been restored and that, due to a technical glitch, Hispanics were largely absent from the list. Hispanics often vote Republican in Florida, and some critics questioned whether there was intent to purge some felons, but not others.

While finding that the database was unable to match felons and deaths with some registered voters of Hispanic origin, auditors said that "there was no evidence to substantiate that the division intended for such disparities to occur."

The main flaw in the project was that incomplete data were used, Department of State Inspector General Kirby Mole found.

Hood said she agreed with the inspector general's findings and that her office would take them into account as it created a new voter registration database now required by federal law.

"There was nothing intentional, everyone was trying very hard," Hood said. "There were just some management controls that were not in place. That is not going to be the case in the future."

The creation of the new database will also be contracted out to a private vendor, but Hood said additional checks will be put in place.

Uh looks like the crap is about to hit the fan.....CyberNet is closing down, Accenture is being investigated and everyone in Florida is abandoning Accenture's contracts at the same time


What does that tell you? The smell of votergate is on the rise

Congressional senators of more than 30 districts have now seen the contracts and felon lists Accenture created with intent to rig elections; its doubtful that any of the instigators will get to back out.....

Because technology, economics, and greed have always been on the side of Republicans. If you agree but want to know why, I will explain further.

The fact is we the ordinary people didn't trust the Repubs with electronic voting. Congress and the state legislature are responsible for valid voting and they didn't seem to be that interested?

1. Well, it is just plain and simple fact that company executives will lean either Democratic or Republican. But, I have said for quite some time now that a bi-partisan consortium is the only way to do this right.

2. Well, we don't honestly know that they did. Maybe all glitches helped Republicans and maybe they didn't. Keep in mind that the vast majority of people looking into the issue lean more Democrat than Republican.

You'd like to believe that wouldn't you.

1. Plain, old fashioned ignorance and apathy. No matter how many people screamed that one company/set of companies were rolling out all the software, no matter how insecure it was proven to be, people flatly disbelieved that it could be an issue.

2. Because when you cheat, you cheat for your own side, silly!