[EL] Palm Beach County's 2012 Debacle (wrong winners announced)

[Paul Lehto]

Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher refuses to be silent
about her concerns for elections including the upcoming presidential
election. Bucher said: “You know the first thing that they tell you is
you’re going to scare the voters,” Bucher said. “Well you know what… we’re
scared too.”

Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher is scared because
her office discovered, and then proved, that *a software error flipped vote
totals between candidates, assigning losing candidate's the vote totals of
the winning candidate. * See
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/cbs4-investigates-palm-beach-countys-2012-ballot-debacle/
Winners of at least two local races from March had previously been
announced and certified, but had to be reversed because of the software
problem.

Bucher is concerned that many problems will not be detected by the required
audits, and that the presidential election could be affected.  Id.

“The company didn’t own up to it real quickly and neither did the state.
> And we had to prove that it was a software<http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/cbs4-investigates-palm-beach-countys-2012-ballot-debacle/#477896>error and we did so.”
>
> Bucher said its time to hold Florida accountable– the State of Florida
> tests and certifies the voting machines for the state. Florida is one of
> just a handful of states that opted out of the federal program that
> certifies voting machines… deciding to do it on its own.   Bucher said she
> is not confident in the system and would love to change<http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/cbs4-investigates-palm-beach-countys-2012-ballot-debacle/#>the system she uses. She also said that the pickings are slim when it comes
> to finding a better choice.
> “What we’re finding out, is that there are problems with almost every
> system in the United States,” said Bucher.
>

Supervisor of Elections Bucher was also recently in the national news for
being one of ten counties to discover apparently fraudulent voter
registration forms (many filled out with similar handwriting) that had been
submitted by the Florida' GOP's GOTV effort.

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Paul R Lehto, J.D.
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