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Machine Problems Frustrate Early Voters [touchscreens switching McCain votes to Obama]
Decatur County Online ^ | 10/22/08 | Jennifer Clendenion

Posted on 10/29/2008 4:01:08 PM PDT by OldGuard1

Several Decatur County voters are concerned about problems with the voting machines at the Election Commission Office. Voters claim they tried to vote for McCain for President but the machine checked Obama instead.

At least three voters encountered the problem when casting their early ballot on Saturday morning. Franklin Boroughs says he intended to vote for Republican but rather the computer had checked the Democratic candidate instead.

Wanda and Barney Blasingim similarly said they tried to vote for McCain but the machine switched the vote.

"I noticed the problem immediately," Wanda said Monday. She says she touched the "button" for McCain a second time and the problem was corrected. Her husband said he asked for assistance from election workers and was told the error sometimes occurs when a person's finger touches close to the line of the box the candidate's name is in.

(Excerpt) Read more at decaturcountyonline.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: decatur; election; massivevotefraud; mccain; no2008election; presidentbyfraud; touchscreens; voterfraud
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To: mass55th
On the contrary, there was a story about these in NYC when Hitlery (remember her?) was running for senator. People would go in and pull the lever for all republican, and it wouldn't work. Trouble is, the democratic selection lever did work. The poll workers now knew that the voter was a republican. The voter was then instructed to fill out a paper ballot, which was placed in a box. The boxes and votes never made it to wherever they needed to go to be counted.

These folks have been disenfranchising voters for generations...

21 posted on 10/29/2008 4:17:52 PM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (In the land of Clinton, where the shadows lie...)
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To: Dubh_Ghlase

WEll certainly since JFK beat Nixon...the votes were dumped in the Chicago River..


22 posted on 10/29/2008 4:18:53 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: OldGuard1

Communists at work again, and again, and again. Hell, half the Country is Communists. What a life.


23 posted on 10/29/2008 4:18:53 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: WesA

See post 18 for a typical reason.


24 posted on 10/29/2008 4:19:36 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: WesA

Because it wouldn’t be theft if it were changing McCain votes to Obama, just retributive justice.


25 posted on 10/29/2008 4:19:36 PM PDT by newheart (The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
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To: unspun
U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties
26 posted on 10/29/2008 4:19:37 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: celtic gal

By the way, on elelction day I am wearing RED!! So there and that’s the truth!


27 posted on 10/29/2008 4:19:42 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: marron
If the mechanical voting machines and the voter fraud isn't enough,I'm afraid that BHO will create the “Perfect Storm” to cry He's been robbed of the presidency. I wouldn't be surprised if the claim is also blamed on the infamous “Bradley Affect”. Just my thoughts.

Thanx

28 posted on 10/29/2008 4:19:58 PM PDT by katiekins1
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To: celtic gal

that should be election...


29 posted on 10/29/2008 4:20:41 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: MediaMole

How about this. All voter rolls across the country are purged. Everypne has to reregister to vote. No political parties. Everyone is an independent. How you vote is your business. The candidates can call themselves anything they like, rep, dem, lib, conservative, socialist, whatever.

In the end, it comes down to a purple finger. Fingers get counted, one with the most wins.


30 posted on 10/29/2008 4:25:17 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: OldGuard1
In response, the Republican Party had this to say -


31 posted on 10/29/2008 4:25:59 PM PDT by airborne (Adversity doesn't build character. It reveals it!)
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To: SamAdams76

“Early voting seems to me to set up a perfect opportunity for vote tampering.”

You just answered your own question.


32 posted on 10/29/2008 4:26:09 PM PDT by Salamander (http://theuniversalseduction.com/articles/?c=Obama)
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To: Steve Van Doorn
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's who counts the votes."
generally attributed to Joseph Stalin
33 posted on 10/29/2008 4:26:44 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: OldGuard1

OldGuard1 - Were you in the 3rd Infantry? If so, what years, and where were you stationed?


34 posted on 10/29/2008 4:27:34 PM PDT by Herodes
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To: angkor

That’s the way we do it in Nebraska. We only trust the people with #2 pencils, especially in certain parts of Douglas County.


35 posted on 10/29/2008 4:29:18 PM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: OldGuard1; All
In Colorado we have a choice of paper or machine. If you have a choice

PICK PAPER!

36 posted on 10/29/2008 4:30:16 PM PDT by jan in Colorado (For Barack Hussein Obama TRUTH FILE see my homepage!)
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To: OldGuard1

Please get this information out to anyone you know who is McPalin supporter who will vote on a diebold machine.

Yes they do act screwy sometimes. I have no idea if this intentional or an accident and it really doesn’t matter at this point.

1)Verify your votes against a sample ballot or palm card. If a vote is wrong, go back and attempt to correct it.

2)If the correction does not take, call an official to help you. The best course would be to move you to a different machine. But what ever you do, DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO HIT THE VOTE BUTTON AT THE TOP. Swat their hand if you have to...granny fashion.

3)Take the numbers of your local Victory offices and a non emergency number for the police with you to your polling place. If an official refuses to help or tries to hurry you, call your Victory office. They can get attorneys from the party dispatched to you. If you feel threatened in any way or are warned that you will be ejected from the polling place, CALL THE POLICE.

This is serious folks. Here in FL we are at war and we are winning. But all of the soldiers need to keep their eyes and ears open and use all of the weapons we can legally brandish.

Just today we had reports at the Victory office of people voting twice at one early voting site and filmed proof of a mail clerk edging an absentee ballot to the trash can from the counter. Those things are being handled. But damn just damn...you cannot even take your eyes off of them for a second.


37 posted on 10/29/2008 4:30:35 PM PDT by lovesdogs (Do something each and every day to help elect McPalin!)
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To: OldGuard1

How about taking a snap/movie of the screen with your cell phone and posting it message boards as well as on YouTube? Bound to raise some Hell that way.


38 posted on 10/29/2008 4:30:47 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Jazz1968
The old push card ballots were just fine.

Fine. Just stack them up and push a pin throught the Obama hole. It will nullify any McCain votes.

39 posted on 10/29/2008 4:33:11 PM PDT by E=MC2
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To: OldGuard1

40 posted on 10/29/2008 4:35:48 PM PDT by Infidel Puppy
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