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Justin M. Bowen
Election worker Fredda Jones signals an open booth during early voting Oct. 16 at the Galleria at Sunset mall in Henderson.
Published Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 | 11:29 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 | 1:25 p.m.
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A lawyer for the Nevada Republican Party has demanded Secretary of State Ross Miller investigate and resolve multiple issues the party is raising about early voting.
In a lengthy letter delivered yesterday, David O'Mara details several discrepancies he says his poll watchers have noted in Clark and Washoe counties. The complaint focuses mostly on the early voting logs, which compare the number of voters who signed in and the number of ballots cast on the voting machines. Most of these discrepancies are very small, just one or two votes.
The voter registrars have described them as human transcribing errors and have said there are no problems with the machines.
O'Mara also wants a more transparent process for resolving the discrepancies.
Elections officials carefully guard access to the early voting machines and have rebuffed efforts during the past two elections to allow poll watchers to observe the vote tallying procedures. They argue to maintain security, only trained poll workers can have access to those machines.
The letter is part of a growing effort by Republicans and GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle to raise questions about the validity of the vote. Earlier today, Jon Ralston reported Angle's lawyer is accusing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of trying to steal the vote by offering free food at early voting events.
Angle spokesman Jarrod Agen says the campaign is maintaining a "election fraud hotline" to collect complaints.
What about stories like this one? http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/25511115/d...
Please pardon the use of a Fox 5 News link, I hope our local station is better than the nation cable station.
Having worked a precinct in the past, I can say with certainty that this kind of discrepancy cannot be attributed to either party and is just as likley to favor GOP as Dem candidates. The machine vote tallies do not reflect the party affiliation of the voters so if there are more votes in the machines than voters who signed in, it can only mean one of two things: either the sign in person didn't correctly log in a voter, or someone has figured out how to hack the machines (presumably by counterfeiting the card that is inserted to initiate the machine). If it were the latter, I doubt the vote discrepancy would be one or two per voting location more likely multiple votes per machine. And of course, it would require multiple "perpetrators" at least one of whom would eventually talk. Would make a great scoop from some reporters.
If I remember correctly there are at least two points in the process where a voter can review and change their ballot before it is cast.
The woman interviewed pushed a prior button too hard or left her finger on the screen and it resulted in the vote she observed, that is it, no big deal.
But of course, the Republicans will use this as proof of voter fraud just in case Sharron loses the election and they can try and steal it back in the courts just like Florida.
This is all talk radio nutbar stuff. They are sick in the head.
Remember old Lou Epton (out at kxnt nut radio) who said Kenny Gwinn stole the election from Aaron Russo? with the aid of the "voting machines?
Next thing you know they are going to say the Reid campaign is spraying con-trails to brainwash voters. Calling Art Bell!
Since the tea crackpots know Reid is going to win Angle should concede the race and save the State money for law enforcement and mental health costs.
Hate-talker Heidi Harris (who claims the car bomb attempt on then gaming commissioner Reid didn't take place because a mobster and murderer says so) is fanning the flames of these pea brain party nut jobs. She talked to the election commissioner and claimed he didn't know what he was doing and the "software was old and defective." Beasley broadcasting should be ashamed for putting such paranoid delusions on the air.
Kept in mind that on 10/15/2010 at 2:44 PM Beasley allowed Las Vegas Review Journal columnist Wayne Alan Root to say: "Reid was a member of the Mormon Mafia" on the "Jerry Dolye Show," heard on Beasley's kdwn 720 AM Station.
All talk radio stations in town should be required to switch to a music format until 11/3/2010, so as not to further inflame their sick, paranoid listeners.
Something tells me they'll suddenly drop all allegations of vote fraud if Angle wins.
Currently, it's a corrupt system to them, but if Sharron wins, it's fair and square?
Circling the wagons a week before the election doesn't bode well for Ms. Angle.
"They argue to maintain security, only trained poll workers can have access to those machines." So . . . train them to be poll workers. Then they can have access to those machines. Or is that too hard to figure out?
It happenbed to me in Boulder City yesterday. Scummy Harry's name came up checked first. I didn't think anything of it and proudly changed my vote to Sharon Angle. Lots of smoke here. Probably fire too.
Hey my lib friends, Harry is going to lose regardless of the machines. Look at all the polls out there, he is history. Thank goodness!
I voted early a few days ago at the Meadows Mall. It happened to me too. I saw that Harry's name was already checked on my screen and I changed the vote to Angle. I took the time to double check the paper ballot and all that.
But what about people that it slips by on? You'll say it's their duty to check their vote and all that but we're talking about an awful lot of people that can't even wipe their owns butts who are voting.
I'm not ready to jump on the conspiracy theory train, but something certainly isn't right.
Maybe crazy Angle is trying to justify her "second amendment solutions"?
Angle is obviously a crazy and delusional person!
BCDave..you are probably dumb enough to have pushed the wrong button. The last thing the right wing wackos in BC would be doing is stuffing ballot boxes for Reid!! Go back to your Teabagging now!
Maybe a glob of "polygrip" oozed out of the Angle voters mouths and hit the touch screen accidentally activating a vote for Reid?
All these people making the allegations should be required to submit to polygraph examinations.
I have a solution for Ms. Angle and her over-paid handlers, lawyers, etc.
Why don't we all just go into a room and have them count the hands that are voting for whoever????
The Mormon mafia will take care of ANgle! LOL
How disgusting...
Selling your vote for a couple of chili dogs...
Will you throw in a beer with those dogs???
Gee, RepubliCANNOTS, wait til Sharron Angle and other idiotic members of your party lose miserably before claiming voter fraud.
Jumped the gun there, if you ask me. Wait til it's over before you start screaming foul....
One more thing....
I wish to follow the advice of all Democratic voters here in Nevada:
"Vote wisely! And vote often!"
(There. That should get the right wingnuts fired up to scream fraud....)
Sharron Angle on the view today LOL
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26...
Maybe Al Gore will come to town to help count votes...
LOL@ Colin -
Funny Sharron the racist is already crying!! LOL
'BLADE RUNNER ANGLE'
Ms. Angle's behavior is starting to remind me of the aura of paranoia that suffuses in the film Blade Runner.
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film and I see it like this... the film depicts a dystopian Nevada in November 2010 in which genetically organic robots called replicants (Latinos and other minorities) wanted to vote-visually indistinguishable from other "real americans, patriotic americans or even common sense conservitives" they are manufactured by the the all-powerful Republican Elite Corporations as well as manufacturers around the world.
Their right to vote in Washoe and Clark Counties are being banned as replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work in Nevada's off-road counties. Replicants who defy the right to vote ban in Washoe and Clark Counties are being scrutinized by Sharron Angle's special operatives known as "blade runners".
Ms. Angle's "blade runners" primary operation is to by all means necessary, even by alleging early voter discrepancies is to nuetralize the replicants(Latinos and other minorities) vote.
Never a voting season goes by that the Republicans don't cry about voter fraud......
Judy, when was the last election that you didn't hear Democrats cry about it, too? (And I voted for Kerry in 2004, so I can talk.)
This entirely comical.
1) In more than six years of Republican control of the Senate, House, White House and Supreme Court, they severely messed up our nation. Two fruitless, preemptive wars, huge debt, wholesale outsourcing of jobs overseas, elimination of pensions, skyrocketing energy prices, abuses in banking and wall street, near economic collapse.
2) They are booted from office, en-masse.
3) For two years, the Tea Cup Party Republicans shout down the President, blockade the House and Senate. They obstruct everything, become the party of NO, and generate anger amongst voters, fooling them into thinking its the democrats fault and that they can't get anything done.
4) Voters reward the republicans and put them back in power, propagating the hatred and gridlock.
The absolute best thing voters could do would be to vote straight democratic tickets- sending the Republicans the message, loud and clear, that they need to get along, not the opposite. Our democracy depends upon it.
This has happened in Northern Nevada as well. Two couples who are not illiterate or uneducated and are very computer savvy pulled up their ballots to begin voting on separate machines for Angle but the check mark appeared by Reid's name. They reported this directly to the County Elections Dept who said they were aware of the problem and were sending someone over to check it out.(The local Elections workers didn't shut down the machines.)The voters told their friends who went to the same location and had the same problem. End result was all 4 of them did change their votes to their preferred candidate but wondered what if someone didn't pay attention and their vote went to someone they didn't vote for.
Angle is determined to try every trick to win this election. Vote discrepancy? Free food? Next she'll pay people to say the food was given in exchange for voting for Reid. Whoops. I don't want to give the crazy lady any ideas. She'd better be careful or she'll be sued for slander. That will keep her lawyers busy.
SEIU VOTING MACHINES???
There have been reports that ballots are being found to have been punched for Harry Reid before a voter even steps into the booth.
Also, there are multiple reports of Voting Machines spitting out ballots that show a Straight Democratic Party vote was cast when, in fact, the actual voter had cast a Straight Republican Party vote.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that the technicians for the voting machines are members of the SEIU.
Get a laxative and maybe you will be regular. Worthless gop and dems.
An investigation is in order, if there is nothing wrong, why should anyone complain, unless ther is something VERY WRONG with the control over the ballot boxes, huh.
Sounds like Sharron Angle is scared already.
Did she really think she had a chance against
our great HARRY REID?
Our great HARRY REID saved the world from economic disaster.
Now all Harry has left to do is to try to save his own re-election campaign from disaster.
No problem, larry, Angle is too scarey.
There are allegations of voter fraud surfacing all across the nation. Strange that the "mistakes" always favor the Democrats. Add to this the fact that many of our deployed military personnel are being denied their right to vote because certain blue precincts failed to send their ballots out on time. All this is enough to raise the question of vote manipulation.
Hey Richard....
We Democrats out number you republicans in
Nevada.
If all of us Democrats get out and vote you
republicans could never win.
They always favor Democrats. As when the Supreme Court did not allow a full recount of the ballots during the Bush election in Florida.
There is a difference between a clerical error and Voter Fraud. If you are accusing anyone of Voter Fraud and precinct chairs maliciously failing to send out ballots - name names and let the Attorneys and Prosecutors get involved.
Would the GOP have filed the complaint if they knew that any errors would be in their favor? This is the set-up to CYA if Ms. Angle doesn't win. The GOP doesn't like her, but they hate Sen. Reid more.
The GOP now sees the Tea-Party as a rabid dog that will bite them in the rear-end as easily as the Democrats. The dark and poorly kept secret is that the Tea-Party is the rabid dog the GOP created and lost control of.
"They always favor Democrats." You mean the election that Pres. Bush won? I'm trying to figure out how that favored the Democrats.
The voters of Nevada will probably re elect Reid.
That will be a big Mistake. A vote for Reid is a approval of Ubama Pelosie Rangle and the democrat congressman that have many visits to worship The communist fidel Castro.
If you like the Communist doctrin . You are getting it full blast.Ubama;s freind Farakan
Ex terrorist Bombers. Communist writer Ilinsky is the ideas Ubama convinced the democrat pary to accept. How could he appoint a Attorbney General that aided Terrorist to get Pardons, Also the Dismisal of Charges againt Black Panthers armed with clubs stationed in front of a voting section to intimidate voters.
There are too many stories about Senator Reid for there not to be substance to some of them. The people servicing and calibrating the machines are some of his most ardent supporters. This is intimidating even if no malfeasance exists. Personally I find it difficult to trust long time incumbents. Washington is by all accounts a place were vice, payoffs and scams are prevalent.Term limits would be the ultimate answer but in the meantime voting out lifetime politicians remains the only solution.
If the GOP did not allege early voting discrepancies in Nevada now, Democrats would say: "Why did you not bring that up earlier?"
My only question is the validity of Sharon Angle. It's seem insane that someone so obvious insane as Sharon Angle would even have a chance to win.
@olegunny - there are too many stories about Sharron Angle for there not to be substance to some of them. Just sayin'.....
olegunny, that's the point in it's entirety. Most of the Angle ads take a fact and blow it so far out of proportion that it's unrecognizable. That's why I love sites like FactCheck.org. To the best of my knowledge they are bipartisan and they are detailed in their investigations. I agree that term limits might curb some of the abuses, but it would just be a matter of time before special interests found a way of taking a nobody and running them for office. I believe the Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to influence elections with almost unlimited advertising without any disclosure of who's behind the ads is far more dangerous. I know many conservatives have come out against the courts "making laws" from the bench, such as this, but none of them have said a work against this ruling.
I just makes you wonder...
BobbyG, I checked out you're blog. Excellent work. Yes, there are provisions in the Second Amendment to take up arms against a tyrannical government, but our first and best option is the ballot box.
We'll know it's time to take up arms when there is no more ballot box and the will of the majority is subjugated by a select few. If that time ever comes to pass, I'll be there.
Otherwise threatening to "Take Out" a United States senator with a "Second Amendment remedy" borders on being a terrorist threat and I'm surprised an ethics complaint or other charges haven't been filed.
Of course Ms. Angle will say "I never said that..."
Roll the tape.
Factcheck.org's latest take on the Reid v. Angle campaign. I was wondering about the (false) claim that Sen. Reid raised taxes 300 time. olegunny, it pays to do your homework.
http://factcheck.org/2010/10/tall-tax-ta...