I posted about possible election fraud here
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Now I have an update. I called the county auditor and a guy named "Jim" took my call. Here is what I found out. There is no chance to vote in person, its mail in voting only in Snohomish county Washington.
Synopsis: My mail in ballot looked fine and I made my choices. Then I put the ballot into the inner "security: envelope and sealed that up in the outer mailing envelope. Then I noticed the name on the outer envelope was not exactly my name. I am Eric F. Canzler, but the name on the envelope was Eric M Canzler, with middle initial "M" instead of "F" The ballot and each envelope have bar codes on them to tie the ballot to a person. You can check blackboxvoting.org to find out how well that works for secrecy, but I don't care about that. I'm proud to vote for whoever I want and I don't care who knows how I voted. But if you want to learn more about "Secret Ballots" check this link
http://www.bbvforums.org/...
and watch the video.
I initially had registered using the motor-voter option when I renewed my drivers license back in 1992 when I first moved up here to the Seattle area. Then I moved from King county to Snohomish county and used the online registration to register in Snohomish county. It specifically said you do not have to unregister in your previous county and that was that. It used my drivers license number for verification. This is important.
When "Jim" looked up my registration, he at first thought maybe my signature might be the problem, but my signed F didn't really look like an "M" How can that be anyway? It used my drivers license number to pull my name and address from the DMV database. No human had to do anything. But Jim saw what he thought might have happened. He said, on the web page he was looking at, it had the last name, then gender field (M for male) on the first line, then the first name on the second line, and finally the middle initial on the third line.
Now I'm not stupid. Jim was trying to make me believe it was simple operator error, where some very stupid worker saw this:
Last Name: Canzler Sex (M)
First Name: Eric
Middle Initial: F
Well maybe it looked more like
NAME GENDER ADDRESS
Last: Canzler M 123 Maple street
First: Eric Anytown WA
MI: F 99120
And that could be confusing if you are very stupid. But some person was so stupid he thought my middle initial was M because it came after my last name. Furthermore, that person entered hundreds, maybe thousands of names like this and never noticed that every single name had either M or F as the middle initial.
Ok, plausible deniability, but I don't think anybody is that stupid. In fact I don't think it works that way at all. They don't have people typing in names from one computer database to another, they just do an extract from one database and import it into another.
Select (lastname, firstname, middleinitial, gender, aptnumber, streetaddress, city, state) from licensed-drivers where motor-voter='Y" and firstname=$FIRSTNAME and lastname=$LASTNAME and licensenumber=$LICENSENUMBER;
Or something similar but quite a bit more complex to deal with all the possibilities of out-of-state, non-citizen, and so on.
I should mention that I am a computer science graduate and I work in IT as a system administrator for a very large three letter company that you have heard of. I have installed and configured Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, and postgresql along with applications that use them on Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux. I do have an understanding of how databases work and how information is transeferred from one to another. It is my job to know how computer software interacts because thats what I do at work. I am not very good at Microsoft Windows because I only use that at work for things that require Microsoft, but even Microsoft does database things the same way Unix does.
Jim has no clue. He thinks somebody looks at a piece of paper and types in what he sees.
The other odd thing about it was that it had my signature, apparently a JPEG, or GIF, or possibly TIFF, image, from my drivers license. These will be stored in the database in BLOB (Binary Large Object) format. I didn't bother to ask Jim how the worker transcribed my signature from one database to another because I didn't think he would understand the question. He was getting a bit testy with me for questioning that a transcription error could cause my middle initial to change, even though I explained that they don't have a guy wearing a green visor transcribing data with a quill pen anymore.
I asked how to fix this problem. Jim said he could just correct my name in the registered voter list, but he warned, it would not take effect until after the election is over. Any other computer database on earth can make a change almost instantly, or within seconds, but not the registered voter database. It takes "until after the election." I then said, well how can I vote? and he said just mail it in. I said, how can I know if my ballot has been counted? He said, "Check the website. It will tell you if your ballot has been recieved." I asked, "How can I know if it has been counted?" He said "If it's been received its been counted." He thought for some reason that it would still be counted and never be challenged, even though Eric M Canzler doesn't exist any more than Micky Mouse exists. He didn't see a problem with that.
Well there you have it. "Trust us" voting at its best. They already made a basic "idiot" level mistake, (or plain old election fraud), and the resolution is for me to just trust them to correct it? Man, if you can't transfer a name from one database to another correctly, and you don't even recognize that an error was made, I don't think you have the expertise to correct it. I told him to go ahead and change it anyway, what else could I do, but I just worry that he changed my "M" to an "F" and now I am a female voter.
Pardon me for thinking the unthinkable, but I strongly suspect this was no error. It was an insider job because I'm in a 75% democratic precinct. For every McCain vote they lose to election fraud, they lose three Obama votes. That's playing the odds right where you want to if you are rigging an election.
I have no doubt that in the heavily republican precincts there is not an error to be found in voter registration. And I know how to predict the future.
If you know what is happening now, and what motivates people, you can fairly accurately predict what will happen in the future. Do you think self regulation and marketplace corrections will fix it all. I don't because I know that insiders can manipulate things and if there is an advantage to be gained and if they can do it without being caught, they will do so. And thats not a prediction, I guarantee thats how it will always be.
I confidently predict that Obama will probably win, but a much closer election than anybody else predicts. This is because the republicans will challenge and disallow as many votes as possible, and also intimidate and prevent as many as they can. They will do this no matter how much the odds are against them because they will not go down to defeat without a fight. The closer they keep the eventual loss, the more they can argue that it was close and the final count was questionable and so on. Even if all their contested ballots are proven to be valid, just the fact that there were challenged ballots will help them with the Low Information Voter mentality. Thats why they are already priming the media with the false ACORN voter fraud charges right now. And sure as shootin, they are priming the pump with so called "voter fraud" any way they can, just so they can claim "voter fraud," no matter how baseless, to burn it into the engrams of the LIVs and true believers. So even if we win, it will be a tainted win, regardless of the actual margin of victory. This is how republicans win, even in defeat. And by letting them get away with it election after election, thats how democrats lose, even when they win.