Posted on 08/28/2019 10:11:02 AM PDT by RummyChick
Shocking video that shows an electronic voting machine malfunction during Mississippi's runoff election has gone viral on the internet, sparking concern from citizens.
The clip was shared to Facebook on Tuesday by Oxford resident Sally Kate Walker, and shows a male voter trying to cast his ballot by selecting from two available options on a touch screen.
The man touches a box marked 'Bill Waller Jr' - the candidate for whom he is voting to be the state's next Republican governor.
However, once he selects his option, the machine inadvertently marks a box labelled 'Tate Reeves' - the other candidate in the running to be Mississippi governor.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Software bugs don’t work this way.
Someone coded it to do this.
“vote integrity” is an oxymoron.
I always start laughing out loud whenever a politician or academic type says those words.
Here in CT the Democrats steal as many votes as they need whenever they need them—in the middle of the night—and dare us to do something about it.
Then after they stole enough votes to get their candidate elected they promise to fix the problem!
Rinse and repeat!
You don't think Dems didn't have vote fraud in mind when these were introduced?
(Yes, the double negative is intended)
You are exactly right. Any election that is close is usually “tipped” in favor of the Democrat after a few days.
Countless Republicans have lost as a result of this.
Paper ballots and kindergartners processing. Maybe 7th graders counting stacks. Civics teaching. Government goofballs cannot be trusted.
Actually is probably a hardware/miscalibration.
I bet if he touched the “write in” option, it would have highlighted the candidate he was trying to vote for.
Basically the machine most likely had a calibration issue, and is reading the touch higher than it actually is.
Not a big deal, machine is taken out of service and voter is moved over to the other machine and a new machine can be delivered.
If you wanted to cheat an electronic voting machine you don’t need to show where the vote is, just tally it where you want... so if this was a nefarious action the voter would not even know.. Screen would show whatever it is he touched, but behind the scenes would count it toward the opponent, the actual voter would have no clue.
Sigh, see post 7
This is not shocking, this is an all too familiar crime. The real shock is the non response by republicans.
In our state they can get on their knees and beg the Democratic Governor or the Democratic Treasurer of the Democratic Attorney General or the pro-Democratic media of the Democratic controlled universities to do something about it.
They could also file lawsuits in courts ruled by Democratic judges.
Good luck with that!
Inadvertently :)
No software glitch works like that. It may be a touch screen registration error. That is unlikely based on the info in the story.
I am a retired electrical and software engineer. This is not an accident. The system is coded that way, probably not to do it every time but only enough to run up the dems total. Probably somewhere about 1 in every 5 to 10 different voters.
See post #7.
I would argue that there should be regulation regarding the testing of each machine every time it is powered up. This is a typical calibration issue. If it isn’t accurate it should be taken off-line.
Not a bug...touchscreen calibration problem most likely.
Software-driven election machinery is a scam.
It’s weird that these touchscreens are everywhere but nobody else has these kind of “calibration” issues.
Paper ballots and blue fingers are the answer.
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Machines have to be programmed to do this, they don’t do things inadvertently.
You never hear of a Republican overtaking a slim Democrat lead in the final stages of a “close” election. It’s always the other way around. And usually after a box of uncounted ballots mysteriously turns up in the trunk of somebody’s car.
Amazing that my phone works within a 1/32” but a voting machine is over an inch off...
Actually there is a grid under the screen, calibration is nut position but sensitivity. This is clearly vote fraud.
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