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 ...
...”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.
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.
The DEMS are cheats. It is kill this country.
What company made the machines?
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...
You have no idea how the machine is recording your vote...
I agree! If they can do it in France, we can do it here!
France again? They also have nuclear plants all over the place...France is making us look like total idiots...
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.
Machines should be eliminated and replaced with paper ballots and secure accounting for them.
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.
“...Fill in the circles by your candidate on a large card...
Im 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.
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.
Voter reports problem with ballot machine,back to 2000.AlGore grins.
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.
Absolutely. We also need severe criminal penalties for fraud.
Why when the machines go bonkers, it vote all democrats, and never republican?
Why when the machines go bonkers, it vote all democrats, and never republican?
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.
video your votes with your phones
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