Bad voting machines

[SuperHornet]

Apparently, early voting is turning up instances of voting machines, first in Chicago, and now in a few counties in Maryland, which are forcibly switching Republican votes to Democratic votes, even involving one of the actual candidates attempting to vote for himself.

Now, I'm not going to go so far as to accuse the Democrats of going on a voter fraud rampage as the article does. Until some election official gets caught in a scandal, there's no proof of that. It might just be a glitch in the programming, and it COULD be innocent. In either case, the company producing the machine is at fault, at least until some election official is brought to trial and convicted for either allowing it or demanding it.

But this cr@p has GOT to stop. Innocent or not, it's not a thing ANY voter wants to happen. That's the sort of thing that scares people from the polls....

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/v ... ther-state

[travelinman67]

Now, I'm not going to go so far as to accuse the Democrats of going on a voter fraud rampage...

That's o.k....I will.

Democrats HAVE to cheat to win elections BECAUSE their policies hurt Americans, destroy our social fabric and attack our economy.

Poll after poll shows the majority of Americans are angry about the direction Obama has pointed our nation (70% CNN Poll), and if the 2012 election were rerun, Obama would lose.

Remember this paradigm, and this all makes sense...

...Democrats win elections through voter fraud.

[andy7171]

Voter fraud in Maryland, say it ain't so. Been going on in Baltimore City and PG County for decades. Ho hum.

[houndawg]

Apparently, early voting is turning up instances of voting machines, first in Chicago, and now in a few counties in Maryland, which are forcibly switching Republican votes to Democratic votes, even involving one of the actual candidates attempting to vote for himself.

Now, I'm not going to go so far as to accuse the Democrats of going on a voter fraud rampage as the article does. Until some election official gets caught in a scandal, there's no proof of that. It might just be a glitch in the programming, and it COULD be innocent. In either case, the company producing the machine is at fault, at least until some election official is brought to trial and convicted for either allowing it or demanding it.

But this cr@p has GOT to stop. Innocent or not, it's not a thing ANY voter wants to happen. That's the sort of thing that scares people from the polls....

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/v ... ther-state

You're just getting around to this now?

[houndawg]

Apparently, early voting is turning up instances of voting machines, first in Chicago, and now in a few counties in Maryland, which are forcibly switching Republican votes to Democratic votes, even involving one of the actual candidates attempting to vote for himself.

Now, I'm not going to go so far as to accuse the Democrats of going on a voter fraud rampage as the article does. Until some election official gets caught in a scandal, there's no proof of that. It might just be a glitch in the programming, and it COULD be innocent. In either case, the company producing the machine is at fault, at least until some election official is brought to trial and convicted for either allowing it or demanding it.

But this cr@p has GOT to stop. Innocent or not, it's not a thing ANY voter wants to happen. That's the sort of thing that scares people from the polls....

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/v ... ther-state

Vote suppression always works in conks favor - call it a wash with the machines....?

[89Hen]

Vote suppression always works in conks favor

Why is that?

[houndawg]

Because there are so few of them.

[89Hen]

Because there are so few of them.

That's not what you said.

[Grizalltheway]

Vote suppression always works in conks favor

Why is that?

Because they suppress poor minorities?

[89Hen]

Why is that?

Because they suppress poor minorities?

That's a question, not an answer.

[CAA Flagship]

Because they suppress poor minorities?

That's a question, not an answer.

[Grizalltheway]

Because they suppress poor minorities.

That's a question, not an answer.

Happy, Poindexter?

[89Hen]

That's a question, not an answer.

Happy, Poindexter?

So you believe every single poor minority votes Dem. Gotcha.

[Grizalltheway]

Happy, Poindexter?

So you believe every single poor minority votes Dem. Gotcha.

Do you not? That's exactly what the last GOP nominee wanted us to believe.

[dbackjon]

SH - way to cherry pick.

Maybe you could widen your gaze and see that this is an issue all around - machines in TEXAS are flipping votes to the GOP.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/2709 ... 14-edition" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Historically this has been the case.

Historically, over the past decade since we've been covering it (and related issues), this issue has occurred far more often for Democratic voters seeing their votes flip to Republicans. Nonetheless, the opposite phenomenon (as well the scenario involving third party or independent candidates) is not entirely uncommon. And, in all cases, voters should be concerned, election officials should be embarrassed and elected officials who continue to allow the use of these unverifiable secret vote-counting systems --- antithetical to American democracy and public elections as they are --- should beg forgiveness from their constituents, rather than begging for more money and more unverifiable votes.




We need to go back to paper ballots

[GannonFan]

I'm in favor of paper ballots actually.

[DSUrocks07]

I'm in favor of paper ballots actually.

[SuperHornet]

I wasn't cherry-picking, Jon. That was the article I saw. Given the presence of glitches in TWO places, the presence of a glitch in ANOTHER place doesn't exactly surprise me. Hence my hesitancy to globally accuse the Democrats of intentional voter fraud. There MIGHT be LOCALIZED Democratic voter fraud, but if that's the case, then one would have to consider the possibility that the LOCAL GOP in Texas might be engaging in the same thing.

DSU: You're assuming Florida-style punch tickets. Not every paper ballot is designed like that. Here in Cali, for example, we have Scantron-style paper ballots with felt pens. No chance of a chad issue with a set-up like that....

[89Hen]

So Mrs89 went to early voting yesterday and she said, you'll never guess what happened. I said "your vote flipped to the wrong candidate?".

[Grizalltheway]

Your

[89Hen]

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That too. I blame the cold medicine.

[GannonFan]

I'm in favor of paper ballots actually.

Well, I'm not in favor of punched-card voting, if you're going to get into the details.

[89Hen]

I'm in favor of some sort of IQ test to be eligible to vote. Something like being able to divide 21 by 3.

[AZGrizFan]

I'm in favor of some sort of IQ test to be eligible to vote. Something like being able to divide 21 by 3.

Apparently Mensa has different standards than you, Hen.

[GannonFan]

I'm in favor of some sort of IQ test to be eligible to vote. Something like being able to divide 21 by 3.

I don't get it. How does that equal 6.93?