Black Box Voting

Techdirt has the "dirt" on how a West Virginia elections clerk demonstrated how "well" the touchscreen machines work.  Clerk Jeff Waybright showed how a machine acts when not calibrated, and then he meant to show how the machine worked when calibrated.  Watch Waybright manage keep a straight face when the "calibrated" ES&S iVotronic touch screen takes a straight ticket choice for Obama and converts it into a vote for McCain. Big credit goes to Video the Vote who captured this event.

One thing this demonstrates to me is that the machines could be calibrated this way on purpose, at least when you see it happen consistently as it has in West Virginia. 

On October 27, just two days ago, the national organizations Verified Voting and the Brennan Center for Justice both sent a letter to 16 Secretaries of States "r/e iVotronic Vote Flipping" . The letter was sent to 16 Secretaries of State where iVotronic voting machines are in use. These states are: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.  On Oct 25, 2008 we blogged about the reports of vote flipping in North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. In North Carolina, the votes flipped from McCain to Obama, in the other states it was McCain to Obama.