Help Hudson County Vote

by: Thurman Hart

Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 01:55:46 AM EDT

Buried deep in the bowels of a boring breakdown of voting in the Jersey City Heights, Hoboken Now writer Carly drops this bomb:

So again, I added up all the votes and came out with Romano winning at 625, Ines next with 162 and Raia last with 117. (Let me know if I did the math wrong; I'm only a blogger.) In case anyone else didn't know this, the ward districts don't go in numerical order. And, since this is Hudson County - the vote count from Ward D, District 21 is missing. The cartridge got stuck in the machine, the clerk's office told us, and those votes won't be in until next week. Do you think that district holds 500 votes for Ines or Pupie?

The emphasis is all Carly. Now, I'm pretty sure that this won't change the outcome of the election - but that wasn't known when the cartridge "got stuck". Or was it? I mean - Hudson County, you know?

The best machine in the world - and our voting machines are far from that - cannot compensate for the ineptitude of humans. Whether it is intentional or not.

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I seem to remember that the vote totals for the 2004 Presidential election were never finalized because some of the data in Jersey City was lost. I'll look for a link and stuff it in as an update.

by: Thurman Hart @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 05:56:33 AM UTC

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Look at the clerks Website (0.00 / 0)

Instead of this "bomb", or to ease the conspiracy theorists rants, why not just look at the current Hudson County Clerk's Live Election Website where it reports all districts in?

by: Psephophile @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 13:20:00 PM UTC

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I didn't see rants and didn't see "conspiracy theories", but did see a report of a significant anomaly. How exactly does a cartridge get "stuck" and deliver some results but not others? Please let me know when your bank statement gets "stuck" and lists all the checks except for those you wrote to the phone company. Anomalies such as these warrant a closer look and a better explanation than "Oops."

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by: BevHarris @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 15:18:46 PM UTC

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Bev as you know, Its a PCMCIA memory card (0.00 / 0)

That gets plugged into the Sequoia Advantage DRE.

Pretty much every recent laptop has a PCMCIA slot. Its something like this:

http://www.seajays.org.uk/phot...

I doubt they get stuck, I would think they are more likely to fall out, than get stuck.

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

by: FogerRox @ Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 02:17:05 AM UTC

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why worry about whether the people charged with carrying out the election are capable of doing so. It's much better to just have blind faith in the system.

by: Thurman Hart @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 17:18:58 PM UTC

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