Posted on 11/06/2018 2:44:15 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
South Carolina voters are reporting that voting machines are changing their choices and other irregularities, according the The Hill:
Officials in Richland County, S.C., are looking into reports by voters that their voting machines were selecting the opposite candidates they chose.
A local CBS station reported Tuesday morning that some voters have complained they've noticed votes for several races, including the state's governor's race, being registered for a party they did not want to select while reviewing the confirmation page before submitting their ballots.
One voter told the station she attempted to correct her vote several times before a poll worker had to move her to another machine.
Richland County Elections Director Rokey Suleman told the news station that he believes the voting malfunctions were caused by a calibration issue with the machines.
He told the news station that officials are now working to recalibrate the machines and also noted that it is typical for recalibrations as much as three times on Election Day.
However, officials told the news station the site is also experiencing other malfunctions with cords and nonfunctioning outlets as the polling site deals with a higher than normal voter turnout for the midterms.
This comes on top of reports of voting problems in both Arizona as reported by USA Today:
Election Day got off to a rocky start when voters in one town outside Phoenix showed up to vote only to find their polling place had been foreclosed upon the day before.
Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes said the landlord of the building, which appears to be a strip mall, locked it overnight after workers had already set up the polling place.
There are ballots inside the building, he said.
Fontes said his staff is working with the sheriff's office to see whether they can forcibly enter the property to collect the ballots and equipment.
That sounds like a big screw-up, hopefully that gets resolved quickly.
There are also reports of some problems with early voting in Texas:
Texans submitting ballots in early voting reported problems with voting machines switching some of their selections, a problem state officials said was connected to Hart eSlate machines used in about 30 percent of counties in the state.
They said it can occur when users fill out and submit ballots too quickly.
Voters should double-check their selections shown on a screen before submitting their ballots.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is taking on Democratic challenger Rep. Beto O’Rourke in one closely watched race in the state.
Cruz had a 6 percentage point lead heading into Election Day in the RealClearPolitics average.
Ohio voters also experienced some minor issues:
Voters in Greater Cincinnati encountered long lines and a few technical glitches as they cast ballots Tuesday morning.
Election officials said voters and poll workers were confused by a change in the voting machine system there that now alerts voters if they have "under voted," or left some races on their ballots blank.
Electronic voting machines there reportedly rejected some ballots that had not been completely filled out.
It's still early, and we'll let you know of any other voting irregularities as we learn about them.
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It’s not a big screw up.
It’s intentional.
Lef me guess: Russians are hacking the election.
I read somewhere those stupid machines are owned by a big Dem donor.
Arrest the big Dem donor.
soroes is a major stake holder in the company that makes and services them. Or so I’ve read.
electronic voting machine should be banned.
Solution: back to paper ballots.
Funny isn’t it. Whenever there are reports of machines switching votes, it’s always a republican who notices and complains... My concern has always been what gets sent from the machine to the main computers where totals are created. There is such an opportunity to alter the counts from each machine during those tabulations
Intentional actions to shape the election results is not uncommon in SC.
Look up one Lilyan McBride who ran Richland County elections for a while, she dispatched a pitifully small number of voting machines to certain precincts that would tend to vote against a local option “penny” sales tax a few years back. Long multiple-hour lines discouraged some from voting. But hey, they were white voters!
That measure passed, and one-by-one various politicians who continue dip into that “Penny” fund for their friends are tracked down and run off.
I agree totally. Paper ballots with tight scrutiny and control. Ballot boxes have been stuffed in the past, but when monitored tightly, paper ballots, counted by hand is the best way to ensure an honest vote count.
“Electronic voting machines there reportedly rejected some ballots that had not been completely filled out.”
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Here in Ma. it’s not required to fill out the whole ballot.
I assume it varies by state?
Marko
mechanical machines
Would it be impolite to inquire as to whether there was a preference for direction of change ?
Strangely, these errors seem to change R to D
On Monday, our son early voted in Beaufort County, (bluffton Hilton head) and while he was there a woman went to a poll worker and reported that she was glad she checked twice because the machine had changed all her votes to Democrat and she had to re-do her selections. Another (definitely DEM poll worker) came to the woman and was enraged that this voter had suggested something was wrong with the machine, “deeze chines hab never giben us troubles. Dere is a law gainst tryin ta makes troubles here.”
The voter asked for someone to talk to regarding the issue and wanted it reported and was refused again with the same attitude, she looked at my son and several other people and asked what she should do, My son had to leave and has no idea what happened.
I vote in the SC 6th district. Commie Clayburn is the house rep for life. Just look at the gerrymandering going on here. The district snakes its way hundreds of miles up the coast into center of the state at Columbia hoovering up the black vote. Crazy.
The hanging chad strikes again!
So those votes should canceled and repeated with papers !
NO MORE FRAUDS .....Dhimmycrat frauds
Every damn election.
Need to outlaw voting machines.
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