Minnesota's voting system utilizes pieces of paper where the voter completes an arrow next to the name of their selected candidates with a black marker. The paper is fed through a scanner.
So, the FIRST voter at this polling place reported that "the scanner was broken" and the election officials were collecting the ballots in a sealed bin of the type that the ballots are fed into *AFTER* going through the scanner.
No word on how this bin will be separated from those full of already-counted ballots, nor on when the scanner will be fixed, nor yet again on how the ballots in *this* bin will get counted (or if a bunch of straight DEM ballots will be, oops, "substituted by mistake", eh?)
LET'S ROLL!
I would be cancelling everything I had going to sit there and watch that bin until someone came and fixed or replaced the scanner and I saw every single ballot in that box scanned.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!
We have the same “finish the arrow with a pencil” system and scanners in my small town.
Polls opened at 7:00 am, I was there at 7:15 and I was number 34 by the scanner. No problems with the scanner feeding and accepting my ballot. My wife was slower than me (she actually read the ballot; I just looked for the Republicans to vote for)—she was number 49. Voting volume was brisk, but not unusually so for my town (where people vote a lot more regularly than other places).
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Similar to the "Frankenmethod", where trunkloads of ballots are "found" after the count shows the Democrat is losing the election.
In VA, we have the choice of that system or touch-screen. In the precinct where I vote, we've never had that kind of problem. The fact that suddenly... BEFORE the first vote is cast.... the scanner in MN went down. There needs to be a watcher on site to ensure no funny sh*t happens with those ballots.
I voted about 11:30 AM, and there were 30-40 cars in the parking lot with a steady stream of 2-3 people deep to sign in, but no lines waiting out the door.
But we had the same issue with a faulty counting machine.
There were 100-200 ballots filled out, on a chair next to the voting machine: they told me the machine had been on the blink 'till maybe 11:00 AM. I made a mile ruckus but was careful to blame the malfunction on Bill Gates and his lousy software (everything is Microsoft's fault, right?)
Tthe two poll watchers seemed edgy and kept trying to shoo people through to cast their ballot and LEAVE. I have emailed their names to myself for later reference if necessary. One was a woman (maybe 35-40 but I'm lousy with ages), dark shoulderish length hair, heavyset, 5'9" or taller; the other, a woman with silver hair, somewhat slender but not really thin, maybe 60-65 or so.
I smell a RAT.