Texas County Switches to Paper Ballots after Software Glitch

Breitbart News ^ | October 25, 2016 | Logan Churchwell

[bobsunshine]

Chambers County election officials have executed an emergency protocol to remove all electronic voting machines available during early voting until a software update can be completed to correct problems experienced by straight-ticket voters.

Chambers County Clerk Heather Hawthorne told Breitbart Texas Tuesday morning that all electronic voting was temporarily halted until her office completes a “software update” on ES&S machines that otherwise “omit one race” when a straight ticket option is selected for either major party. The Texas 14th Court of Appeals race was reported to be the contest in which voters commonly experienced the glitch.

Hawthorne explained that she expects the technical difficulties to be completely addressed by end of business Tuesday. In the interim, regular paper ballots will be used. The county clerk told Breitbart Texas that before the machines were pulled, poll workers were instructed to alert voters to the glitch and double-check their selections.

Chambers County sits east of Texas’ largest county, Harris, and serves roughly 26,000 registered voters. Hawthorne noted that since polls opened on Monday, only one voter did not have proper photo identification and was required to complete an affidavit to cast a regular ballot. Breitbart Texas recently reported a similar trend in neighboring Harris County where less than 10 out of more than 67,000 ballots cast lacked ID.

[Wisconsinlady]

A woman in Texas said her electronic ballot changed to Hillary. Here are numbers to call if you see anything fraud related. Please share these numbers.
SPREAD THESE PHONE NUMBERS ALL OVER!!!!!!

List of numbers to reporting any cases of voter fraud and intimidation in each state.
Alabama 334-242-7210
Alaska 907-465-4611
Arizona 602-542-8683
Arkansas 501-682-5070
California 916 657-2166
Colorado 303-894-2200
Connecticut 860-509-6100
Delaware 302-739-4277
Florida 877-868-3737
Georgia 877-725-9797
Hawaii 808-453-8683
Idaho 208-334-2852
Illinois 217-782-4141
Indiana 317-232-6531
Iowa 888-767-8683
Kansas 785-296-4561
Kentucky 502-564-3490
Louisiana 225-922-0900
Maine 207-624-7736
Maryland 410-269-2840
Massachusetts 617-727-7030
Michigan 888-767-6424
Minnesota 877-600-8683
Mississippi 601-576-2550
Missouri 573-751-2301
Montana 406-444-3976
Nebraska 402-471-2555
Nevada 775-684-5705
New Hampshire 603-271-3242
New Jersey 609-292-3760
New Mexico 505-827-3600
New York 518-473-5086
North Carolina 919-733-7173
North Dakota 701-328-4146
Ohio 614-466-2585
Oklahoma 405-521-6457
Oregon 503-986-1518
Pennsylvania 717-787-5280
Rhode Island 401-222-2345
South Carolina 803-734-9060
South Dakota 605-773-3537
Tennessee 615-741-7956
Texas 512-463-5650
Utah 801-538-1041
Vermont 800-439-8683
Virginia 804-864-8901
Washington 360-902-4151
Washington DC 202-727-2525
West Virginia 304-558-6000
Wisconsin 608-261-2028
Wyoming 307-777-5860

[Wisconsinlady]

A woman in Texas said her electronic ballot changed to Hillary. Here are numbers to call if you see anything fraud related. Please share these numbers.

SPREAD THESE PHONE NUMBERS ALL OVER!!!!!!

List of numbers to reporting any cases of voter fraud and intimidation in each state.

Alabama 334-242-7210
Alaska 907-465-4611
Arizona 602-542-8683
Arkansas 501-682-5070
California 916 657-2166
Colorado 303-894-2200
Connecticut 860-509-6100
Delaware 302-739-4277
Florida 877-868-3737
Georgia 877-725-9797
Hawaii 808-453-8683
Idaho 208-334-2852
Illinois 217-782-4141
Indiana 317-232-6531
Iowa 888-767-8683
Kansas 785-296-4561
Kentucky 502-564-3490
Louisiana 225-922-0900
Maine 207-624-7736
Maryland 410-269-2840
Massachusetts 617-727-7030
Michigan 888-767-6424
Minnesota 877-600-8683
Mississippi 601-576-2550
Missouri 573-751-2301
Montana 406-444-3976
Nebraska 402-471-2555
Nevada 775-684-5705
New Hampshire 603-271-3242
New Jersey 609-292-3760
New Mexico 505-827-3600
New York 518-473-5086
North Carolina 919-733-7173
North Dakota 701-328-4146
Ohio 614-466-2585
Oklahoma 405-521-6457
Oregon 503-986-1518
Pennsylvania 717-787-5280
Rhode Island 401-222-2345
South Carolina 803-734-9060
South Dakota 605-773-3537
Tennessee 615-741-7956
Texas 512-463-5650
Utah 801-538-1041
Vermont 800-439-8683
Virginia 804-864-8901
Washington 360-902-4151
Washington DC 202-727-2525
West Virginia 304-558-6000
Wisconsin 608-261-2028
Wyoming 307-777-5860

[HKMk23]

Huh. I wonder if, in the zoomed-out view of that artwork, you can see the Claymores surrounding that cabal.

[gleeaikin]

The story that blew my mind was that a person voted electronically for one party but when he looked at the results the other party’s candidate was printed. He tried 2 more times with the same bad results. Then he called on a poll worker, who also tried with the same mistake, the poll worker tried a second time and finally the correct result. So then the question, how many votes were reversed, but the voter never looked to be sure his candidate was printed.

[cynwoody]

I too have programming experience and I agree with you 100%. It had to be deliberate and the version of source code used to compile the executable binary can be backtracked to. There are also reverse compilers if they were really good at covering their tracks. This is not a hardware issue. If it was it would be isolated to one machine and there is a 99.999% cancer that a harrdware error would be catastrophic and shut down he machine.

You might find this video amusing, if a little out of date, being from the year after DJT's famous Tic-Tac ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5YyiyWOH4

[Luircin]

As I’ve said before, forward this to the Trump campaign. Get them on it. They have the resources. AND contact the numbers for voter fraud when it happens too.

[StAnDeliver]

"Coding is proof of malice, and a single case of sabotaged code that’s proven will blow the game wide open."

Who among Judicial Watch, Thomas More Society or even Breitbart went down to Chambers Co. and got a court order to impound that machine? That's what it would take. Then every line of code could be examined.

[MayflowerMadam]

Meaningless change if the paper ballots are counted by Democrats.

[fwdude]

I never vote “straight party” - ever. I deliberately choose candidates in each race. I don’t trust the one-mark-selects-all trap.

[fwdude]

I heard that a similar issue in Texas had the election judge getting involved. When they finally got the vote to “take,” they considered it solved, without questioning the integrity of the machine. Insanity.

[fwdude]

Why weren’t these machines checked to see if they were in working order BEFORE the election began?

Systemic flaws. We have mostly VOLUNTEERS working these elections, which happen relatively infrequently, and so no skills or expertise are solidified to any degree. That, and the turnover from new election workers each election is a recipe for incompetence. It's like hiring new employees at your company every week.

One more argument for privatizing elections with PROFESSIONALS, who are audited every step of the way by third parties, and who know their stuff going in.

[Redbob]

"Meaningless change if those paper ballots are counted by machine:"

Paper ballots can at least be recounted; electronic machines, not so much.

[Black Agnes]

True that.

Evoting is banana republic technology.

[Enlightened1]

BTTT

[gleeaikin]

If I remember correctly, it was a Democrat vote being converted to the Republican candidate.