Drudge Siren: TOUCH SCREEN CONFUSION

Drudge ^ | 11/05/02 | Drudge

[TheConservator]

Systematic problem statewide in Georgia confirmed: When placing vote, and touching the screen for a Republican candidate, the box is incorrectly checked for the Democrat candidate. Another similar situation is occurring when the review screen comes up and previously marked Republican votes are showing as Democrat votes... is happening in lots of different races. Officials fixing problems as they arise when made aware of them... Developing...

[BlackRazor]

Insider Advantage report from 11:55 a.m.:

Signs have been posted in heavily Democratic South DeKalb County, reading: “Support Cynthia McKinney. Don’t Vote!”

Heavy turnout with few voter machine glitches reported across much of South Georgia. Suburban Atlanta also reporting long voter lines.

[ecomcon]

Please explain how a name can be connected to a number when the ballot does not have the number on it. I've wondered about this also. Is there no way of verifying my vote and how it was counted?

[Tunehead54]

Very confusing ... Some group wants election results doubted in every instance.

If "one" was hacking a machine to generate false votes you would only hit the data sent - only a complete idiot would DISPLAY the hack.

Thus my confusion. Any machine displaying this "glitch" should not be turned off or reset - it should be wrapped with crime scene tape and the authorities called.

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[Saundra Duffy]

Oh, my God.

[mhking]

Signs have been posted in heavily Democratic South DeKalb County, reading: “Support Cynthia McKinney. Don’t Vote!”

Heavy turnout with few voter machine glitches reported across much of South Georgia. Suburban Atlanta also reporting long voter lines.

The signs in South DeKalb don't surprise me. Those folks are just plain crazy.

I can speak first-hand about the lines in south Cobb and in Douglas Counties - it was much rougher than I've seen it in all the years I've lived in Georgia.

[theartfuldodger]

When the paper trail is gone who's to say how anybody voted?

[thoughtomator]

As a professional systems developer, I am astonished and appalled at 'computer voting'. There is no substitute for hard copies of critical data - and I'd say that a cast vote is about as critical a datum as a free nation can have.

Computer voting is an invitation to fraud. There is no substitute that is sufficient to replace a paper ballot.

[LoneGOPinCT]

BTW .. did they ever find those 18 missing voting machines??

I think they showed up on eBay under the seller name tmcauliffe-dnc.

[tracer]

You should expand your product line to include White-Out for Dumbocrats who need to correct their voting choices on the touch-screen..............

[Liberal Bob]

Bunch of

[Non-Sequitur]

Currently there isn't a way to tie the two together, but if you look back to Reply 6 I was answering someone who wanted to know why it couldn't be done. Right now is someone wanted to verify if I voted then they could do so. They might be able to tie me to a specific voting machine. But unless I'm the only person who used that machine all day then they have no idea how I voted. And I don't mind keeping it that way.

[dmcnash]

When I voted (in GA) early this morning I noticed that I needed to use the tip of my little finger to select the candidate I desired. It was like the "active area" of the screen was too small for most of my choices.

I sure would like to review the program code on those machines as well as the policies and procedures involved.

[Rome2000]

I've heard peole calling in on local radio stations to complain that when they go to the confirmation screen after voting McBride, it changes to Bush.

More than 7 people called in from different locations complaining of the same thing.

Since Bush is the first line on the touch screen for Governor, it seems that some of the machines are reverting to line 1 when put into review mode.

They notified poll workers who "reset" the machines, allowing them to vote for the rat.

If true, and it will be confirmed by the end of the day, it is absoluetly unacceptable.

If these machines are so unreliable that this happens just once, never mind apparently dozens of times, it is time for these counties to get their money back and use a more stable technology, like lever machines.

[tracer]

They're also having problems again all over FL. Seems the Demoncrat voters are using finishing nails to punch holes in the touch-screens to indicate their ballot choices.... 8~)

[hchutch]

That is good news. If the McKinney supporters stay home, Saxby punches his way in.

[Dog Gone]

As a professional systems developer, I am astonished and appalled at 'computer voting'. There is no substitute for hard copies of critical data - and I'd say that a cast vote is about as critical a datum as a free nation can have.

If banks wire money instead of sending trucks filled with currency, I think electronic votes can be managed.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. What is wrong with paper ballots?

[Shermy]

Apparently the programmers slipped up. The fraudulent recording and misrecording of votes is visible to the voter. This will be fixed, and the march to "paperless" voting will continue, getting rid of nasty, time consuming matters of recounts and hard evidence of actual votes. That's progress for ya!

[Mo1]

Please explain how a name can be connected to a number when the ballot does not have the number on it. I've wondered about this also. Is there no way of verifying my vote and how it was counted?

In my area .. you come in and give your name .. they look it up and then you have to sign your name which is then verified by a signature they of on record right there .. then another person places your name on a list and gives you a number that you then give to the person standing near the voting machine

[Mo1]

FOFL ...