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The Truth Will Out:
"I voted for Obama, but my vote went to McCain, and "I voted for Kerry, but the touchscreen told me to confirm my vote for Bush. "Why should I vote? My vote doesn't count anyway. 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002 . . . Every election, news reports and voting logs record the same problems: Flipped votes, lost votes, vote-counting errors. Yet it wasn't until late 2008 that mounting evidence of ES&S flip-flopping and vanishing votes during early voting gained enough traction to skip past some of the standard ES&S roadblocks to fair and accurate elections when after a series of early voting incidents, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law sent letters to all ES&S iVotronic Secretaries of State warning, "There is a real chance that voters using iVotronic machines in your state will experience ˜vote flipping' similar to that experienced by voters in West Virginia. (The iVotronic "Vote Flipping Statements & Testimony by Lawrence Norden, Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice and Pamela Smith, President, Verified Voting.)
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Then finally in April 2009, after years of authenticated vote-flipping and vanishing votes, VotersUnite.org recorded this entry in its log: "Vote flipping is a known problem that affects 22,619 ES&S iVotronic voting machines. . . ES&S admits that calibration may not hold through the entire Election Day . . . The entry refers to vote-flipping in Kansas. And when Saline County Clerk Don Merriman consulted ES&S about the errors reported during April's early election, he was told that calibration on his touchscreen machines might change during the day. "What they've seen is calibration drift on a unit. . . They're fine in the morning, but by afternoon they're starting to lose their calibration. This "calibration drift or sudden-out-of-calibration problem affects [at least] 22,619 touchscreens cited in a lawsuit filed in late 2005. ( "'Vote flipping' was not unexpected, by DUANE SCHRAG, Salina Journal, Kansas, 4/10/2009)
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What's that mean? Calibration drift, smoothing filters, and vanishing votes:
"The problem was this: When a voter pressed a certain candidate's bar on the voting machine's screen, the candidate above the selected candidate instead received the checkmark." (Saline Journal Faulty-Election)
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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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