FLORIDA VOTERS CLAIM MACHINES 'BROKEN', VOTED FOR MCBRIDE, MARKED IT AS AS BUSH

DRUDGE

[Dallas]

DEJA VU

[Adding in the story, as it is now up on Drudge-- AM]

FLORIDA VOTERS CLAIM MACHINES 'BROKEN', VOTED FOR MCBRIDE, MARKED IT AS AS BUSH

"I voted for McBride, but the machine counted it as Bush. It did this three times. The polling worker finally said, 'We have to reprogram this machine. Another person was having the same trouble while I was there.'"

So claimed a caller to Southern Florida's WQAM-AM and the highly-rated radio talkprogram NEIL ROGERS SHOW.

"I'll tell you right now, this election is fixed!" roared Rogers, who has been in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale market for more than 30 years. "Based on a few early calls, it is going to be a wild, wild time!"

Touch-screen and other high-tech voting machines make their full-scale debut Tuesday.

[JasonC]

Incompetent has never been anything but a pose. They are just plain crooks.

[McGruff]

Given that this was just some caller to a talk show, does this thread merit a slot in the Breaking News sidebar?

I believe so. This could be a planned DNC dirty trick to sabotage Jeb's apparent victory.

It's seems a lot more like Breaking News than some other stuff I see put there.

[immadashell]

A very interesting strategy. The democrats have finally admitted to themselves that the rest of the world knows they have been fixing elections for such a long time (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc.) and they desperately need to deflect the truth. What better way to confuse the public than to start building the myth that the other side is doing the same thing. What better place to do it than in a state where their mindless, loyal supporters can be convinced to publically and shamelessly announce to rest of the country that they are either incompetent, stupid, or both on national TV. If they can do it in a state whose governor is the brother of the leader of the opposition party and their candidate was politically dead on arrival, they have nothing to lose.

[Tribune7]

I say a sincere sorry for the slanderous slight spewed at your splendid state. At least the Republicans in it. Vote out that judge.

[demlosers]

"The rest of the nation makes fun of Florida, but if we're so "stupid" then why the hell do millions of these people keep moving here?????????"

Maybe because you are stupid enough to let them in? (Humor...don't flame!)

LOL!

[valleygal]

When my dad lived in Delray Bch. 20 years ago he would complain about the Northeastern Liberals, mostly retired New Yorkers. I and my sisters had not been down to visit and thought he was exaggerating to the extreme. Till she moved down with him and I went for a visit we had no idea. He was dead on right.

Not only do they not care who pays for their services, they used to take stuff out of my dad's shopping cart at the grocery store! LOL

[harpo11]

Gee, why doesn't President Bush just declare Florida a disaster area due to severely dumb democrat party voters.

[MagnusMat]

that would fit the pattern

[Green]

I think it is more than that. The lawsuit filed by the Dems in Texas regarding this very same allegation in early voting got them what they wanted. In the district where this was filed, they are using paper ballots today.

http://www.dallasnews.com/localnews/stories/110302dnmetearlyvote2.c13dc.html

(sorry don't know how to post the link)

[RMDupree]

Amen brother.

I see and raise your Amen!

I'm so sick of hearing how stupid Florida voters are. I live in Miami and I have NEVER had a problem voting. It's the Democrats that cause the problems by inventing / creating them.

It's unfortunate because my family moved here back in 1979 and South Florida was mostly quiet and conservative. Once the Condo Communists took over in Broward and the large influx of modern day immigrants from Central and South America grabbed Miami, the old time Cuban families like mine (do you hear me ContemptofCubans?) were simply overwhelmed and drowned out. Even the recent Cubans that come here vote Republican because they can see a socialist agenda more clearly than most Americans can, being that they have lived in the "worker's paradise" and know it for the lie that it is.

[Luis Gonzalez]

That's a lot of balls coming from a TRIAL LAWYER!!!

And don't bother trying to make the comparison to the Founders, it's laughable.

[Dallas]

Associated Press

Lines at Florida Polls Move Quickly

[Sender]

This will hopefully result in some actual prosecutions.

Yes, and IF it is true, you can bet there is a solid evidence trail to who had access and programming knowledge for these machines. Of course, the final responsibility lies with the Democratic-controlled election board who had responsibility not only for ensuring that the machines were correctly programmed, but also for the secure storage of the machines before this crucial day.

I voted on a touchscreen for the first time today. I'm pretty computer savvy, and I don't see how what the caller claims is possible. When you insert your access card, the screen shows "Loading Ballot". Then you touch your choices, plain as day. When you're through, you get a ballot review screen which shows all your votes before they are recorded, and you can go back and change any you want. Maybe the caller meant that the ballot review screen showed Bush instead of McBride, and he/she/it had to change it? Anyway, from the ballot review screen you finally press "Cast Vote" and the screen shows "Recording Your Votes". You would never know if there was some internal problem past the ballot review screen, and so I question the authenticity of this obviously dem caller.

[BillCompton]

Sarasota and Charlotte.

Yeah, I am in Suwannee county and we use scanners. Since they screwed up the primaries in Broward and Miami-Dade, there was a lot of press about the machines. I did a little looking into the machines and the procedures for recording the votes. These machines use three (redundant) recording media on each machine. The vote modules are then inserted into a tabulation machine that adds them together. Then, the results are either phoned in or taken to the central office and tabulated. The problem was that the poll workers appartently thought the process was instantaneous and so they pulled out the modules too soon. That's why Reno some districts showed only one vote or no votes in some districts. It is not a bad system if it is run properly, but I do like the idea of having a paper receipt.

[McGruff]

CAPTION: Where's my lottery tickets!

They told me if I voted I would get free lottery tickets.

[gura]

Sorry! :-)

[RMDupree]

ContemptofCubans has shown himself to be nothing be a Dem shill that hates the Cuban people and is so blinded by bigotry that he is probably one of the people that couldn't find the right hole in the punch card in 2000!! LOL!!

[bcoffey]

""I voted for McBride, but the machine counted it as Bush. It did this three times."

Florida needs our (New Mexico) constitutional clause that prohibits "idiots and insane persons" from voting. (Of course, NM is trying to repeal that clause today, most likely to increase the Democratic base!)

[copycat]

If someone was going to be clever enough to sabotage the machine so it counted a McBride vote as Bush, THEY WOULDN'T DO IT SO THE SCREEN SHOWED THE CHANGE. They would simply add the McBride vote to the "wrong" database.

That said, I think voting machines are a BIG MISTAKE.

[MEGoody]

"I voted for McBride, but the machine counted it as Bush."

And so it begins.

By the way, I wonder how a voter would check the electronic vote to see what the machine registered? I don't think poll workers will do this for you.

Oh, one more thing. Isn't the Miami-Dade county election board run by the Dems? If it's fixed, who fixed it? Hmmmmm???