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Folks, when you go vote, double and triple check what you are doing, and review everything before recording your votes. Those computers can do some screwy things.

My skeptical side can't help but to wonder though..... If this was an honest computer/equipment error, why did it highlight the 0bama box? Why not one of the other candidates?(there was something like 5 of them)

1 posted on 11/06/2012 1:07:30 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn

In S FL here, we fill in bubbles with a pen. Then put the sheets through a scanner.

All I can verify is if my vote increased the overall count.

Voted at 15:30, I was the 441’th vote. 2 people in line when I got there.

Thanked a vet on the way out. He said ding how.


2 posted on 11/06/2012 1:10:37 PM PST by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com (I AM UNREPRESENTED))
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I wonder if, even if the entries are supposed to be randomized, the default indexing has Democrats 0, Republicans 1. And a timing glitch gets the 0 index, i.e. the Democrats. Did anything similar show up on other pages for other offices and sets of candidates?


3 posted on 11/06/2012 1:12:00 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (cat dog, cat dog, alone in the world is a little cat dog)
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A poster on Reddit actually posted (with video) that his Obama vote was changed to Romney.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/06/watch-voting-machine-change-obama-votes-to-romney-votes/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chp-desktop%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D230773#comment-box

That said, the man who posted this on Tech Crunch only repoted about Obama votes being changed to Romney, not the Romney votes being changed to Obama. Obviously he’s a liberal.

I personally think paper ballots are the best. We use them here, and they can be hand counted.


4 posted on 11/06/2012 1:12:15 PM PST by Pinkbell
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Computers don’t do screwy things unless people program them to do screwy things.

The “justice” department will start investigating this any minute now. /s


5 posted on 11/06/2012 1:14:45 PM PST by I want the USA back
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To: KoRn

ya....lot’s of voters, selecting (R) have IQs above 80 and recognize when the machine is screwing with them....

you may be surprised to learn that the GOP poll watchers getting thrown out of precincts and wards around the country, are also at their assigned locations, and being asaulted and intimidated.

Fraud is a full time business for the Dems, not just something they dream up on occassion.
“The Chicago way” isn’t just a story line.


7 posted on 11/06/2012 1:16:45 PM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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You got a "X"?

All I got was a lousy green checkmark next to my Straight Republican Ticket choices! I got gypped.


8 posted on 11/06/2012 1:17:38 PM PST by Carriage Hill ("0bummer's a towering figure" - even a Garden Gnome casts a long shadow at sunset.)
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I live in Central NY State, and the machines they are using read your ballot when it is inserted. It only registers your vote, and doesn’t show your actual candidate choices on the small screen. With all the fraud that goes on, it makes me wonder how reliable these machines are.


9 posted on 11/06/2012 1:20:45 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Just curious are you in a swing state?


10 posted on 11/06/2012 1:22:06 PM PST by funfan
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I, like you, thought perhaps some of our good conservative friends were just a bit paranoid making claims that voting machines were posting votes that fhey didn't intend, that is until two hours ago when I sent to my polling place here in KS.

As we get no say so on our judges (liberal bar assn. submits names, then Gov. Sebelius last time, picked from bunch) but we do get to vote whether or not to retain them.

I selected "no" to not retain most all but when I pushed the "submit ballot" key to recheck, all of my "no" votes magically became "yes!"

If took three times with helpers suggesting that I just might have done this "wrong" or that but I told them that none of my "yeses" became " nos" only my "nos."

As many of those judges are very liberal, I presume that the tendency is to vote yes if you don't know their records. That is why I instruct all of my friends to vote no so that at least we get a fresh set and with our new Gov. Brownback, I'm counting on him to appoint only those that aren't ardent abortion supporters.

12 posted on 11/06/2012 1:28:55 PM PST by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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I was told by a poll worker this morning to watch my coat sleeve when I went to touch the computer screen. He said several people have had the screen mark a ballot incorrectly because of it and they were warning everyone to be careful.

In the machines we use you must retouch the box again before it will erase an “x”. If you didn’t see the computer error initially, the screen would have registered the first mark rather than your intended vote and the impression is left that the machine cast an alternative vote. Just a thought.


14 posted on 11/06/2012 1:50:45 PM PST by Madam Theophilus
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Ballots should be paper with a barcode receipt for scanning in case of the need for election verification.

ID should be needed to get into the polling place, but never connected to any particular voting machine.

The penalty for vote tampering or paying people to vote should be the same as treason, because it IS treason.

People should be barred from voting while receiving government benefits, and for one year afterwards.


15 posted on 11/06/2012 1:57:09 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Amazing how all these reports say that their Romney vote magically switches to hussein rather than the other way around. Just another coincidence. Move along. Nothng to see.


21 posted on 11/06/2012 2:25:50 PM PST by bgill (Evil doers are in every corner of our government. Have we passed the point of no return?)
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PLEASE contact CNN and tell them. They are pushing a phony narrative that the broken machines are ALL showing Romney incorrrectly!


22 posted on 11/06/2012 2:27:54 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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Your saga is why I chose to do paper this time! Here in IL I had the choice and figured I didn’t want to add any unnecessary frustration to the day ~

I will be so glad when this nightmare is over, and God willing we have a new president.


27 posted on 11/06/2012 3:22:19 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 (Fluck this adminstration of misfits.)
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The "Help America Vote" Act that forced everyone to go to these unproven technologies is to blame. Congress-critters "felt" [not thought] they had to do "something" in the aftermath of Bush-Gore.

Hard as it is to believe, New York State's elections have always been relatively scandal-free. Didn't matter. Our beloved mechanical-lever machines had to go.

I will say that, computerized as we are now, at least they went with the optical scanners instead of the dreaded touch-screen.

28 posted on 11/06/2012 3:53:23 PM PST by BfloGuy (Workers and consumers are, of course, identical.)
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