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In other words, while a candidate's name and touch-here box may be displayed correctly on the screen, the touch-here sensors don't hold their places next to the name displayed. The display screen is not aligned with the touchscreen input.So while the voter reads "Obama" and presses "Obama," since McCain's voting sweet spot has drifted or bled into Obama's territory, McCain gets the vote in Texas, West Virginia, Missouri . . .
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Calibrated / AlignedoooooooCalibration Drift
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McCain - - - - - - - [ X ]ooooo McCain - - - - - - - [ X ]
Obama- - - - - - - - [ X ]ooooo Obama- - - - - - - -[ X ]
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The voter "touches" one candidate and another candidate gets the vote. Ironically, according to a report by Brad Freidman, every incident of vote-flipping during early voting in 2008's general election involved a Democratic vote flipping to a vote for a Republican or another party.(State After State, ES&S iVotronics Are Flipping Democratic Votes to Republican, 10/24/2008.)
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If you're curious about your state, all these states used iVotrinics during 2008, some with paper, many without: Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin. 26 million registered voters eligible to vote on ES&S touchscreens in 414 juristictions across the country. (Voter information was not available for all jurisdictions. VerifiedVoting.org)
In battleground Ohio alone, of the nearly 8 million registered voters, nearly 4 million registered voters in 39 jurisdictions would vote ES&S. iVotronic touchscreens are standard voting equipment in Delaware, Franklin, Knox, Lake, Mahoning, Pickaway, Ross, Union and Wyandot. Some 4 million registered voters in 48 jurisdictions vote Diebold. VotersUnite.org Election Problem Log
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In battleground Florida, of the 10.5 million registered voters, 6.7 million registered voters vote in ES&S territory.
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