"Sorry folks. Paper ballots only"
:::casually dressed people with rolling suitcases glumly walk out of the building:::
Posted on 11/05/2024 8:00:15 AM PST by DFG
Pennsylvania’s Cambria County has been forced to make an election day switch to paper ballots following widespread issues with voting machines in the heavily Republican locality.
The technology issue predominately impacts ballot scanners, meaning the printed electronic votes must be hand-counted for tabulation.
“The Cambria County Board of Election learned early this morning that a software malfunction in the County’s Electronic Voting System has prevented voters from scanning their ballots. This should not discourage voters from voting at their voting precincts,” Cambria County solicitor Ron Repak said in a statement early Tuesday morning. He added: “The Board has filed a Court Order extending the time to vote within Cambria County. No one should be turned away from the polls if they wish to cast their vote. Cambria County Board of Elections took measures to have IT specialists called to review the software issue. There is a process in place for issues of this nature.”
The Cambria County official claims that “[a]ll completed ballots will be accepted, secured, and counted by the Board of Elections.”
“The County Board of Elections has express voting machine at precinct locations to continue to allow voting electronically, while still allowing hand ballots to be cast,” Repak said, adding that all votes will be counted.
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Department of State issued a statement saying it is aware of the situation in Cambria County and is working with local officials on a solution. “Voters are continuing to vote by paper ballot, in accordance with normal operations, while the county resolves the issue with in-precinct scanning,” it said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), adding: “We are working with the County to resolve this technical matter and remain committed to ensuring a free, fair, safe, and secure election.”
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Paper is better as long as we have poll and ballot box reps there to watch for any funny business.
As I recall Trump has teams ready for just this kind if crap.
Third world countries in Africa are laughing at us.
This shi+ ain’t gonna fly this time
“Well, it’s a chaotic mess. We’ve got all this paper over here, and some electronic stuff that worked over there, and I got envelopes in various states and stages over here. It’s a mess. I don’t what to tell you. I think we have no choice but to throw up our hands and say that Kamala won.”
Anyone else longing for the days of hanging chads...
What nonsense. The software doesn’t malfunction unless someone tampered with the code.
Gonna be a long gut wrenching night- and very likely won’t know results for days unfortunately.
Whatever program out in to flip votes had a bug and failed.
I view this as a good thing.
Undoubtedly what happened.
Although it is what it is i supose- just hope the gop can expose any cheating when it happens
Out=put
“This should not discourage voters from voting at their voting precincts...”
...even though that is exactly what your Deep State overlords intend to happen.
It’s about time. The other counties need to do it too
Voter suppression by RATs. Software doesn’t just suddenly glitch.
I’d feel better if they were shutting down in philly and pittsburgh.
Stay in line! Vote!
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