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Voter reports problem with ballot machine ( NC )
Sun Journal ^ | October 23, 2010 | Christine Smith

Posted on 10/24/2010 9:13:09 PM PDT by cutty

Man said he voted straight-party ticket and got opposite results.

A Craven County voter says he had a near miss at the polls on Thursday when an electronic voting machine completed his straight-party ticket for the opposite of what he intended.

Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said. Then he asked for and received help from election staff.

“They pushed it twice and the same thing happened,” Laughinghouse said. “That was four times in a row. The fifth time they pushed it and the Republicans came up and I voted.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newbernsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: voterfraud
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To: Revel

...”Switching to these machines has ensured that the vote can be rigged”...

We The People should demand some kind of affirmation and proof that this software is clean of manipulation and, if found to be otherwise, the perps should go to jail for life.
We must stand against corruption..Otherwise, it will kill us.


21 posted on 10/25/2010 2:13:05 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: Revel
Remember that the slot machines you see in Las Vegas are not really as random as you think. They can be programmed to yield a given outcome over time. For example, over time, they might be set to return 97.44% to the player (but guarantee 2.56% to the house.) Thus is it not out of the question that a machine can be programmed to deliver, say, 53.44% of the vote to the Democratic candidate regardless of how the lever is pulled by the user.

Now I know that slot machines and voter machines are two totally difference devices, but at their heart, they both have microprocessors and yes, given access to the inside of the machine, it is theoretically possible for unscrupulous people to change their programming to ensure a given result.

22 posted on 10/25/2010 2:28:37 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 38 days away from outliving Curly Howard)
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To: cutty

The DEMS are cheats. It is kill this country.


23 posted on 10/25/2010 2:31:22 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: cutty

What company made the machines?


24 posted on 10/25/2010 3:01:04 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: cutty

Back to paper ballots with an audit trail...any vote that can’t be traced back to a living, breathing ELIGIBLE voter gets thrown out...


25 posted on 10/25/2010 3:03:12 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Revel
And I am sure that the software can be rigged so that the voter gets no visual indication that there votes did apply as they directed.

You have no idea how the machine is recording your vote...

26 posted on 10/25/2010 3:04:36 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

I agree! If they can do it in France, we can do it here!


27 posted on 10/25/2010 3:07:53 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: WellyP

France again? They also have nuclear plants all over the place...France is making us look like total idiots...


28 posted on 10/25/2010 3:13:31 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

I voted last week in tampa. Paper ballot where you fill in a circle by the name with a pen. Had to show driver lic.. No chad problem.


29 posted on 10/25/2010 3:13:53 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (the way to win this game is not to play)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Machines should be eliminated and replaced with paper ballots and secure accounting for them.


30 posted on 10/25/2010 3:14:54 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (the way to win this game is not to play)
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To: cutty

We voted yesterday.
Fill in the circles by your candidate on a large card.
Then stick the card in a machine that draws the card in and counts the fact that your card is recorded.
But.. no indication as to who you voted for. Whether the machine can be programmed to count every 5th repub vote to the dim or some such, I don’t know.
I’m very suspicious of electronic voter fraud.


31 posted on 10/25/2010 3:36:12 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Vinnie

“...Fill in the circles by your candidate on a large card...
I’m very suspicious of electronic voter fraud...”
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It is even worse than that here.
We tap our fingers on an electronic touch screen.
So even if the election results end up highly questionable,
there is NO paper trail to go back to to resolve the issue.


32 posted on 10/25/2010 3:44:25 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: jazzlite
the perps should go to jail for life.

I"m thinking that vote rigging,vote fraud, and vote manipulation is Treason. It should be a capital offense. We need a few public hangings.

33 posted on 10/25/2010 4:01:17 AM PDT by Big Giant Head (Two years no AV, no viruses, computer runs great!)
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To: cutty

Voter reports problem with ballot machine,back to 2000.AlGore grins.


34 posted on 10/25/2010 4:07:37 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Repeal The 17th

There has to be a paper trail. We voted like that several yrs. ago but we’ve changed to the card ballot.
Anything computer controlled can be manipulated and with no paper, completely unreliable.


35 posted on 10/25/2010 4:11:02 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: screaminsunshine
Machines should be eliminated and replaced with paper ballots and secure accounting for them.

Absolutely. We also need severe criminal penalties for fraud.

36 posted on 10/25/2010 4:19:15 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: cutty
This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore sweetpotato. Show DetailsHide Details The voter machine issues are happening in New Hanover county as well. It appears to be defaulting to a straight Democratic ticket.

Why when the machines go bonkers, it vote all democrats, and never republican?

37 posted on 10/25/2010 5:28:22 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: cutty
The voter machine issues are happening in New Hanover county as well. It appears to be defaulting to a straight Democratic ticket.

Why when the machines go bonkers, it vote all democrats, and never republican?

38 posted on 10/25/2010 5:28:53 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Revel
“The voting machines cannot be calibrated as they are solely digital, and are suppose to be programed with a certified program that cannot be changed at the polling place.”

Well, if they are touch screen machines they might need to be calibrated. The digitizer must be calibrated so that when you touch a certain spot, the correct location is noted. Imagine you have two buttons, one says “straight Republican” and the other says “straight Rat”. Put them close together so that a small calibration error will cause a rat vote when the Republican box is touched near its edge.

I remember having to calibrate my Palm pilot touchscreen. If would give a target at each corner and you just tapped in the center of the target to calibrate.

BUT, a rat worker could simply tap a bit away from the target and an honest machine would then be purposely calibrated wrongly.

39 posted on 10/25/2010 5:49:12 AM PDT by trenton1776
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To: cutty

video your votes with your phones


40 posted on 10/25/2010 5:59:08 AM PDT by phockthis
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