[JennysCool]

Hmm ... Sounds like Dems are already coming up with far-fetched before-the-fact excuses as to why they're going to lose.

[PatrickF4]

Oakland based

Sounds like a setup for voter fraud complaints

[Vermonter]

What in the world would a company selling voting machines be thinking, to put an external switch on the machine that could affect the totals. Beeper or not, this is outrageous.

[kinoxi]

"You can't do it surreptitiously," said Guy Ashley, spokesman for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. "You have to know what you're doing.

Okay, so here's how you do it...

[ARealMothersSonForever]

It's a feature

Not something we really want to hear on a voting machine.....

[Richard from IL]

How many times are dead people allowed to vote? Who is Chavez favoring in the election?

[Gordongekko909]

Louisiana has been using electronic voting machines for decades now. If I'm not mistaken, that button is what the attendant presses to enable the next person in line to vote after one person already has. In order for a voter to screw around with that, he would have to literally walk all the way around the machine, right next to where the attendant is, then walk back into the booth and vote again. Unless Helen Keller is working the booth, it's impossible not to get caught.

Hooray, we're ahead of the curve on something!

[Caipirabob]

On our electionic voting machines you receive a plastic data card that serves as a single ballot. I've never seen a variation on this for an electronic machine. One ballot, one vote. What are they doing in CA?

[BW2221]

Question: why do we spend hundreds of millions on voting machines that are used one or two days a year?

[Jim Noble]

Electronic voting should NEVER be permitted.

[expatpat]

"If the machine beeps loudly and someone has their arms wrapped around the machine, the poll workers are going to become suspicious,"

What if the poll workers are the ones pushing the button?

[Tall_Texan]

I'm not worried about fraud during the actual polling time. I'm worried more about fraud before and after. If I'm the organized Party of Vote Fraud, I rig the voting before or after, not during the voting.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Perhaps a moderator could update the subject line to indicate this machine is made by the HUGO CHAVEZ owned company??

[floriduh voter]

In Florida, it looked at early voting that it would be easy to pocket the voter card. Nobody was attending the table where the cards are turned in. It was self service.

[kalee]

ping

[Cobra64]

WTF? Who designs these things? School kids?

[jiggyboy]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can only get away with this kind of stuff if you're a poll worker or in cahoots with a poll worker.

At the end of the day (*), the poll workers have to reconcile the number of votes the machine says it registered with the number of signatures in the roster, plus absentee ballots handed in, etc. If those don't match, somebody down at election HQ will get involved and have to either resolve it or throw them out or something.

It's impossible that the machine will show 1000 votes and the precinct roster will have 500 signatures and that precinct's 1000 votes will be accepted.

(*) One of the few times this phrase is appropriate to a discussion, if I may say so myself.

[Doctor Raoul]

A piece of cardboard, some duct tape and problem is solved on election day.

[Doctor Raoul]

Remember who demanded such machines post-2000, DEMOCRATS!

[streetpreacher]

I have only one question: Does this help or hurt Republicans?