Posted on 11/06/2018 12:55:41 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Several polling sites across New York City have reported broken ballot scanners, leading to long lines, the Associated Press reports.
High turnout at one polling place led to a line twisting around a junior high school gym on Manhattan's Upper West Side, according to the AP.
Two of the roughly six scanners in the facility weren't working, poll workers told waiting voters.
Most of the scanners at two Brooklyn polling sites were also malfunctioning, the news outlet reported.
One voter told the AP that half the scanners were broken down at a polling sight in Crown Heights. She added that she waited two hours to vote, during which all of the polling place's machines broke forcing her to drop her ballot in an "emergency ballot box."
A number of polling places across the U.S. reported technical delays on Tuesday.
Precincts in Georgia reportedly suffered technical delays as voters headed to the polls for the midterm elections.
Officials said the precincts were experiencing difficulties with the system that produces access cards for the state’s electronic polling system.
In one North Carolina county, high humidity and ballot sized caused issues for machines.
Democrats are hoping to pick up 23 seats to flip the lower chamber in Tuesday's midterm elections. Most political handicappers give them a good chance of doing so.
Republicans, meanwhile, are expected to maintain control of the Senate.
In NY you get a provisional ballot if a machine breaks down. So you don’t lose your vote.
The scanners are malfunctioning because the voters never had to tear their ballot into two pieces before, and some of the voters are feeding the doubled-up ballot into the scanner.
There are people paid to watch but they are not being vigilant.
NY had reliable lever machines with mechanical counters until after the 2000 elections when the democrats wanted a system they could use to cheat and create problems they could use to their advantage. Optical Ballot scanners are not all that reliable even when they are working. If you run the ballots through multiple times then you will get slightly different counts. They are far better than the totally electronic touch screens which have even more issues, and are child’s play to cheat with.
Yep. And they can get started scouring around the building, say under the stairs in the church basement, a utility closet no one has used in 5 years, the car trunk of one of the poll workers.... It is hard to predict where those “lost” ballots might end up being found!
Malfunctioning voting machines means the Dems know they’re losing. There were no voting malfunctions in 2008.
They found plenty of ways to cheat with the mechanical machines. Machines would appear at a polling site with many Dem votes already on them. Or the levers wouldn’t work, meaning that paper ballots had to be tallied at the end of the voting day, with three Dems hogging them so the Republican can’t even see what’s going on as they fill in the numbers. Happened to me when I was a poll watcher.
The polling site chairman kept going into a supposedly locked voting machine and pulling the lever (for Carl McCall) and then saying nope, it’s still not working. I told him if he went inside that booth one more time I was calling the cops. The only way I could get him to stop.
Also they told us in training that no one should be allowed to eat lunch behind a machine. You think, Oh, come on, but yes people tried to do it. There’s a way you can manipulate the machine from the back if you know how to do it. I made them stop. I was their worst nightmare. They said, “You going to call your lords and masters?” Like all Republicans are Nazis.
how much money did NYC spend on voting equipment? How often is it used? Regardless of what the manufacturer may say, if that’s new equipment, or under a service agreement, that’s some serious warranty issues that should be pursued against the manufacturer - all the way to a financial settlement. And who manufactured wrong-sized ballots? How stupid is that? And nobody anticipated rain and humidity? In November? And these are the people who work in government in their spare time? NY taxpayers need to ask some questions.
But if proper poll watchers like your self were in place from beginning to end then none of that cheating could occur. To this day no proper attention has been given to voting sites to make sure that any inappropriate behavior will result in severe discipline. It is so bad in places like Philly that the poll workers can sit at a table right out in the open and fill out ballots with no one there to stop them.
Yeah, yeah. I know the concept of us all doing our civic duty together is kinda old-fashioned, but I guess I'm an old-fashioned kinda guy. :-/
ABC Radio was reporting problems involved ‘humidity on the palm of peoples’ hands’.”””
There are storms all over the east coast.
Paper—in particular—draws humidity & can become unwieldy.
IF people are standing in line after being out in he rain, the humidity in the area can climb quite rapidly.
We have a problem with proportions in NYC. By law, there are supposed to be a Dem and a Republican poll inspector at each booth/table. But there aren’t enough Republicans who want to take the day off from work to earn a pittance, so there are many “Democrats acting as Republicans.”
As for poll watchers, who don’t even get paid, forget it.
I was the only one that day, Republican or Democrat.
There’s a rule that if someone doesn’t understand English (and don’t bother to ask why he’s voting in the first place), the Dem and the Republican poll inspectors (the people at the desk) have to go into the booth with the voter. Since most of the “Republicans” are actually Democrats, no one bothered to do this, as I found out when I proceeded into the booth with the Dem inspector.
People were actually laughing. Three people in a voting booth, ha ha ha. Well, the Dem immediately said to the voter, “You want to vote Democrat, right?”
My congressional district is the second most Dem in the country, going by presidential vote. The most Dem is guess where, just north of us.
You see the problem?
The person watching the scanners today knew me from the neighborhood. She never bothered to make sure I was tearing the ballot in half.
See?
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