So far, the NH Recount is Showing a Lot of Errors and Discrepencies

[Paulie]

http://www.sos.nh.gov/recountresults.htm

That's the raw numbers of the results. They're in the early stages right now, with only Manchester being counted so far. The Dem's are being counted first. Obviously this will take a while.

Here's something else that is alarming:

http://www.bradblog.com/

The sensitive memory cards containing the programming and tabulation from the Diebold optical-scanners are apparently "missing in action" for the moment. Those cards, as viewers of HBO's Hacking Democracy know by now, may be used to hack an election, such that only a proper hand-count of the paper ballots afterwards will reveal the hack. (See the video of that hack for yourself right here. The same exact machine being hacked in that film was used across the state to count 80% of the ballots in NH in last week's primary.)

And yet, says Bonifaz who spent time today speaking with New Hampshire Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary of State and Deputy Attorney General, nobody seems to have any idea where those cards are and what has become of them.

He says he was told by Secretary of State William Gardner that his office doesn't get involved in tracking what happens to those memory cards. Some have reportedly been returned to LHS, and may have had their memory erased already.
"When you have a private company counting 80% of the votes, and you later learn that the memory cards are unaccounted for, you have a serious question about the transparency and accountability in that process," Bonifaz said.

He notes that federal law requires all materials from elections be preserved for 22 months after the election. So if those materials have already been lost, destroyed, or over-written, there are legal questions that must be addressed.

It's already proving to be a disaster to be using computers in the US Election process.

They say human error is more likely than computer error, but it sure doesn't seem like it.

We can't be outsourcing the future of this country and it's election process to computers, which ironically, are programmed by those same humans that are argued as more capable of making errors.

This has to stop. There are MORE than enough people in this country that would be willing to take on the tedious and obviously boring task of counting votes, if that's what it takes to make sure ballots are counted properly.