NH voter fraud?

(The Patriot Post) - Members of a non-profit organization dedicated to elections oversight are questioning the final vote count from the Democrats’ New Hampshire primary. BlackBoxVoting.org notes that in the 80 percent of New Hampshire districts using the notoriously non-secure Diebold electronic-voting machines, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received at least five percent more votes than her rival, Barack Obama. In districts where the votes were counted by hand, Obama had the advantage. BlackBoxVoting admits that while this isn’t proof of election fraud, the raw numbers are “odd” and “worthy of further investigation.”

Among the many critics of electronic-voting machines are The Patriot’s own technical staff. Having worked with computer technology for most of our professional lives, we understand the weaknesses that are inherent to any computerized device. While hanging chads might be an undesirable side effect of paper ballots, we believe electronic voting to be a much greater threat to free and fair elections—especially when Democrats are involved.