Posted on 11/07/2006 6:18:05 AM PST by Timeout
Edited on 11/07/2006 6:29:22 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Seems everyone wants to show how modern they are -- look at us, we use these fancy electronic gadgets to count votes. Like when cell phones first became available -- even today, I think some people flash them around just to show how "hip" they are.
I don't necessarily object to technology, but there are times when it's not an improvement over the old ways.
We have the mark the ballot with the special pen, run it through the machine here in rural Lowndes county, Alabama. This is a heavily democrat, black county. We manage quite nicely, voter ID included. I can't understand why it can't be standard practice nationwide. It gives you a paper ballot and machine reading and counting. If Lowndes county can afford it and make it work, it'll work anywhere. Unless evil forces don't want it to.
Jean Schmidt couldn't vote for herself in OH-2 this morning. The scanner machines were broken. They just are storing the paper ballots, going to get machines that work, and feed them all in later as a group.
Cuyahoga County
DemocRAT bastion of Ohio. always the last to report so they know how many votes they need to get from the graveyard.
I think you meant to type "It's" vs. "It'd" correct? Anyway, I voted straight R in Ohio this morning and when I pushed the print button... a straight D ballot appeared in the window. I asked the poll worker what was wrong and they opened the machine and said the paper roll was jammed. I'd say that was a tool malfunction vs a craftsman error, wouldn't you?
You should report that to GOP HQ as well as the elections office.
Never know when your county might be the next Palm Beach!
And then people would be buying and selling votes. You cannot have a receipt saying how you voted for that reason.
In my FL county early voting started on Oct. 23. I voted on that day on an electric machine and had no problems whatsoever. No stories of the machines breaking down in the weeks since.
Likewise in Republican outpost in democratic People's Republic of Lake County
I voted in Clermont County, Ohio. Had to wait a half-hour, but no problems. We have the fill-in-the-dot, scantron ballots -- Two pages, both sides. The showing of the ID's is taking up most of the time.
I voted on a wacky Diebold machine today in Cuyahoga county (Cleveland and burbs). The person before me complained that it put the X on the wrong candidate. She called a poll worker over. Neither of them could get it to register the correct vote. The poll worker called over a couple other workers and said in a loud voice, "She wants to vote for XXXXX (D) and it won't register." Everyone in the place heard her vote. So much for the private ballot. She never could get that vote to register. I thought, oh, no, the Repubs will get blamed for her vote being locked out.
Then it was my turn to vote. Guess which machine I got? I hesitated but then figured, "I'm not stupid. I can get this to work."
All went well as I voted for Blackwell. When I got to the sec'y of state, it wouldn't register for either candidate. It just beeped. I hit it about 10 times. No deal, just beeps. I called over the worker and said, "Watch. It won't register." Of course, it DID register that time. Oh, well.
It happened on a few other candidates but it found you just have to mash the touch screen really hard and then it works. This was the only machine that was bad. My wife on another machine said just a light tap was all that was needed.
So, either I, RightWingAssault am a moron or the machines do have some issues. I'll let you decide.
There were lines since a lot of people never voted in the primary where the machines were first used, so people were really slow.
Some people are just slow voters anyway. They insist on reading the whole 2,000 word issue followed the the 500 word issue, followed by the 1,000 word issue. Nice to come prepared.
Had 4 Diebold touchscreens the lines were out the door and only 1 machine was in operation.
I heard no positive remarks about the new machines.
On a positive note they did want picture ID to vote. And there was no electioneering outside the polls.
Yes, it is a good thing.
I voted early here in NM and offered twice to show my photo ID (Drivers license). Both times I was ignored.
My "brand new shiny voter ID card" was taken and I was found in the system. Don't know what would have happened if I had forgotten to bring that.
The hacked program that DemocRATs loaded had a bug in it - my guess
Also, the machine I mentioned in post #72 did several incorrect votes. I hit my candidate and it ended up for the Dem. A second hit corrected it. Again, as far as I can tell, it was just that machine since my wife had no problem nor did anyone else complain.
From previous experience, reinforced today, tools break.
We have people living in space, but we can't get a voting machine to work correctly. I don't believe it.
I heard that too. Sounds like the dem clerk Dana De-bu-wah couldn't get her stuff and story straight.
Imagine that, a Dem with no brains...
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