[EL] Cayuga County NY revises number of voters who abstained on pres. race

[Paul Lehto]

What Richard Winger is reporting below is "just" around 5000 votes for
President lost, but now miraculously found after a numerical analysis of
the minuscule portion of the vote count that's transparent and therefore
accountable: the reported results.   It's at least somewhat doubtful this
would have been found had attention not been drawn to it.

This vague explanation could bear more information however for these
reasons:

(1)  Because there was no recount, the reported "glitch" (a fantastic word
in bureaucracy because "glitch" holds nothing accountable) could not have
been a ballot scanning issue.
(2) If not a ballot scanning issue, it was either a tabulation error or
fraud.
(3) an error in tabulation is even more interesting because it is allegedly
a computerized portion of the tabulation (not data entry or the like) since
the term "computer glitch" is used, and because computers don't make errors
of *addition **of the specific figures they are instructed to add*.
(4) perhaps a programming error, or some full precincts not outputting to
final totals but only for President and Senate, but this still begs for
detailed explanation.

So it's not that easy to imagine what this problem could have been, and
more importantly it would be interesting to know what specifically happened
and should be blamed, even though "glitch" is supposed to mean that no one
is accountable.

Who wants to be bet if this is the only chunk of 5000 lost votes for
President? (Such a bet probably can't be settled)

If a voting machine providing "notice" of undervotes is used, should
anybody really take undervotes as simply being caused by voter decisions,
when the above error was apparently due to tabulation errors creating
undervotes and not recordation or scanning problems?

Paul Lehto, J.D.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com>wrote:

> A week ago, Charles Stewart mentioned on this list the Cayuga County New
> York Board of Elections had certified that 14.6% of the people who cast a
> ballot last month left president blank, and over 20% left US Senate blank.
>
> Today the New York State Board of Elections information officer phoned me
> and said Cayuga County has now realized a computer glitch caused the county
> report to be inaccurate.  Instead of 5,355 "blank" votes for President, the
> county now says only 462 voters left president unvoted.
>
> Richard Winger
> 415-922-9779
> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
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