Jim March, Please Call Your Office!

[Waitone]

We've all been treated to a wild night in New Hampshire. The polls, they say, were wildly wrong for some reason. Bobble heads serve up lots of excuses or reasons as the case may be, save for one.

No mention of electronic voting fraud.

Anything curious, weird, odd or suspicious going on out there?

 

[SecDef]

Well there is talk: http://drunkardslamppost.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/diebold-and-new-hampshire/

This discussion on differences between hand and machine tallied votes doesn't really come to a conclusion as to whether there was anything suspicious. However the last paragraph is essential reading for understanding why the machines are a bad thing:

For democracy to work, the system must be transparent and maintain the confidence of its participants. Proprietary voting machines fail both these tests. American, as far as I know, are still capable of counting, so should return exclusively to the paper ballot.