Reply #21: The info they gave on NC voting is DEAD WRONG!! [View All]

I saw them refer to the 4438 lost e-votes in North Carolina, claiming that these votes were initially thought to have been irretrievably lost but since found to have been correctable.

I am assuming that they are referring to the lost votes in Carteret County. The machine was programmed to accept up to 3000 votes, but the pollworkers were told that it could hold 10,000 votes. Everyone who voted on the machine past the 3000th vote had their votes go into the netherworlds, never to be seen again. They are irretrievable, and this is causing a HUGE problem since the statewide race for Secretary of Agriculture shows the Republican candidate ahead by only 2300 votes, which is less than the margin of lost votes.

A do-over has been scheduled in Carteret County, but the terms are very controversial and will certainly mean that the losing candidate will file a lawsuit. State law requires that a statewide revote be held under the circumstances and the Democrats on the state Board of Elections favored that remedy. The Republicans argued that only the disenfranchised voters, whose names are known, should have the right to vote again. A compromise was reached where the 4438 voters PLUS any of the 20,000 voters in Carteret County who did not vote at all would have the opportunity to vote again on January 11. There is a question as to whether the compromise is legal, and neither candidate seems to know right now whether or not this decision favors his side.

Here is the article:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/10308951.htm

Email CNN and tell them that they are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!! This was most definitely NOT fixed, and the fact that we had no paper trail on these machines where votes were irretrievably lost is causing HUGE problems in this state which will continue for the forseeable future!!!