Glitches cited in early voting

The Miami Herald ^ | 10/28/2006 | CHARLES RABIN AND DARRAN SIMON

[small voice in the wilderness]

Brilliant move on Rove's part, ordering the ACME Voting Machines;) Watch the fun on election day as the dems. run into the painted tunnels. I love you, Rove!

[flaglady47]

Funny how glitches only happen when Dems use the machines. Funny how it's only Dems complaining about the problems to the poll workers. Maybe they are causing the glitches to occur and then complaining about them to make it look like voting machine error and conspiracy on the part of Pubs. What a crock.

[traditional1]

[FixitGuy]

"Several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones that appeared on the review screen -- the final voting step. "

Old farts just forgot what they voted for by the time the review screen came up!

[camas]

"serious problems"???? there should be no problems at all!!!

[ThomasThomas]

If you can rig a machine to vote by changing the program you will also so need to change it back. While some might find ways to break into a voting machine you also so need to do it with out a trace. The person I know working with the machines in my county said that each machine has severals seals to prove it was or wasn't opened. These seals come in a sealed bag with a seal on it. So if you broke into a machine to changed it's program you also so need to replace the seals and after election before the machines were inspected again you would need break into the machines again replace the old program and replace the seals again a second time. From their stories I would expect that they are not tell the truth are really stupid.

[WildBill2275]

It's obvious that the jerks who picked touch screen voting machines never worked with touch screen cash registers in a restaurant. Screens going out of calibration was one of the major problems. And once it starts, you can calibrate it regularly and have it go out more and more often until you can't calibrate anymore.

[Sender]

Broward County, FL Touchscreen Voting FAQ

[Between the Lines]

Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday . . . Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look at what was happening on his machine.

This sounds suspicious. You can invite other people besides a poll worker over to your machine? Other than to assist the handicapped, I have never seen this done.