Ignatzmouse at DU has extended his analysis of NC with comparisons of voting machines from ES&S and Microvote.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=698
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Consider the following quote:
"This shows us rather explicitly that although e-voting dominated the early voting and captured 42% of the statewide votes, electronic results stifled, snuffed, and skewered the results. As bad as we believe the optical scans were, Kerry posted early vote leads in 16 of the 49 optical scan counties (32.7%) ..... But in the 36 counties with e-voting, he barely made scratch with just 13.8% and 5 of 36 counties.
If one looks inside the numbers, though, it gets worse. Three of those leads were all posted for a single vendor, Microvote General, in just seven counties. For the rest of the e-voting vendors, the results were 2 out of 29, 6.9%. If all the other voting systems are posting Kerry leads at 33% and it's running in parallel numbers of e-votes at only 7%, it should shock the hell out of you."
"Lest you think this is simply an aberration of demographics, let's look at the election results of the biggest e-voting vendor ES&S in comparison to the state's demographics and another e-voting competitor with a similar share, Microvote General."
Further into the summary of the study's results, he states:
"ES&S has the same Democratic ratio as the rest of the state. They have a hair-split more Republican to Unannounced ratio. They even have 1% higher Black population. ES&S has 3% more Democrats than Microvote but also 3% less in Black population. In all cases, it is essentially a toss-up. The ES&S e-voting counties are dominated by Democratic stronghold counties (8 of their 13 counties) and with but one small exception not once did Kerry have a lead in the early/absentee voting.
In the one county that Kerry tabulated a 234 vote lead in the early vote, it swung wildly from a 52/48 Kerry lead in the early vote to a 45/55 Bush success on election day."
Each day, each study, each report reveals ever more reasons why we must stand and demand "Prove My Vote Counts, Now"