This blog is sad news to me because it involves my home state of Kentucky. We’ve made national news and it’s not good.
A Circuit Court Judge and a County Clerk from Clay County (KY) have been arrested and charged with various federal crimes involving elections and election returns. Clay County uses ES&S iVotronic vote-counting machines, which leave no paper trail.
“The details suggest that there were two parts to the vote changing. First, there was traditional vote buying — where they paid people to vote in a certain way. However, the second involved actually changing voters’ votes on ES&S e-voting machines. It didn’t involve any hacking or direct security flaws — but the elections officials made use of the confusing user interface and process of the e-voting machines to trick voters into leaving before their votes had been cast. That’s because there’s a “vote” button, that some people (silly them!) assumed meant they actually voted. Nope. It turns out that just gets you to a page to review your vote and then confirm it. However, these elections officials told people that once they hit vote they had voted — and were then able to go in and change the actual votes.”
I completely agree. Did you read the article I posted above? I couldn’t believe how easy it was for them to change the votes. It had nothing to do with tampering or hacking. Something that serious shouldn’t be that easy to mess with.
They should do some checking on voting machines all over the whole country…. I seriously doubt if Kentucky is the only state with this problem.