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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Garland Favorito

November 11, 2010 (404) 664-4044

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Did Georgia Voting Machines Lie?

ATLANTA, GA – In the November 2010, non-partisan, Georgia Supreme Court election, incumbent justice, David Nahmias, garnered 48% of the vote while challengers Tammy Adkins and Matt Wilson received 36% and 16%, respectively. A two person run-off between Adkins and Nahmias is now scheduled but there is something wrong with this picture. Tammy Adkins, a family lawyer, did NOT campaign, create a web site, accept donations, respond to surveys, advertise, distribute literature, register phone and Email contact data or accept media requests. Still, Georgia’s statewide unverifiable voting equipment recorded 733,770 votes for her.

By contrast, Matt Wilson, a 35 year civil litigator based in a high profile, Buckhead location, sent out 6 million Emails, erected 20,000 yard signs, recruited a dozen volunteers, spent tens of thousands in radio advertising. made TV appearances, established a web site and judicial platform, made numerous speeches, reached out to minorities, had hundreds of Facebook and Twitter friends and gained endorsements or supporters across the political spectrum from Tea Party members to the AFL-CIO.

Some elections officials have attempted to explain the phenomenon as a form of anti- incumbent sentiment, however, that is nonsense. Positions of incumbent judges are not well known, any anti-incumbent votes would have more likely gone to Matt Wilson and incumbents such as Casey Cagle were re-elected in spite of ethics questions. Studies indicate that top ballot positioning could provide a 2.5% vote advantage and a female gender could provide as much as a 3.5% advantage. But even if those advantages were doubled, there is still no way to account for the remaining half million votes recorded by the machines for Tammy Adkins.

A VoterGA review of results in the four largest metro Atlanta counties revealed a similar pattern in races with 3 candidates. Electronic voting machines recorded up to 80% more votes for the top ballot candidate than mail-in votes recorded for the same candidate. Races with 4 and 5 candidate showed a normal range difference of a couple of points. One example is the Cobb County judicial race between Angela Brown, Jason Fincher and Marsha Lake. Angela Brown received over 42.5% of the unverifiable electronic votes but only 23.5% of the tangible absentee ballot vote.

Ironically, incumbent, David Nahmias, was one of the justices who voted in the 2009 Georgia Supreme Court case to continue the use of unverifiable voting equipment.

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