Voting machines recording Republican when Dem is selected

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Voting machine troubles in West Virginia

In West Virginia's Jackson County, there were some reports that voting machines were accidentally recording the wrong vote.

"I went in there and pushed the Democrat ticket, and it jumped to the Republican ticket for president of the United States," said Calvin Thomas, an 81-year-old West Virginian. iReport: Tell us about your early voting experience

Thomas has voted in West Virginia in every election since Harry Truman defeated Thomas Dewey in 1948.

The same thing happened to his daughter, Micki Clendenin, when she cast her ballot. In both cases, poll workers at the site had them touch the screen a few more times, and the voting machine changed their ballot to their candidate choice.

"The lady came in, and she was -- very nicely, she just said, 'it's just been doing that.' She said, 'just hit it again.' So we hit it again, and this time it did go to Obama," Clendenin said.

CNN's Brian Todd reported that at least five voters in two West Virginia counties said they encountered the same problem. State and local officials said that they were isolated cases and that poll workers fixed the problems so the correct vote was cast.

The machines were manufactured by an Omaha, Nebraska-based company, Election System and Software. The machines will be used in several states this year and were among those that had problems in Ohio in 2004.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/voting.problems/index.html

More about Electoin System and Software:
Republican Chuck Hagel was CEO of the company until shortly before his election in November 1996 to the United States Senate from Nebraska. The election was conducted almost exclusively on equipment provided by his former company.
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Systems_&_Software[/ame]
 
Outsourcing our election process to the Republicon party is the biggest mistake this country has made since appointing a neocon prez.
 
Chapdog said:
Voting machine troubles in West Virginia

In West Virginia's Jackson County, there were some reports that voting machines were accidentally recording the wrong vote.

"I went in there and pushed the Democrat ticket, and it jumped to the Republican ticket for president of the United States," said Calvin Thomas, an 81-year-old West Virginian. iReport: Tell us about your early voting experience

Thomas has voted in West Virginia in every election since Harry Truman defeated Thomas Dewey in 1948.

The same thing happened to his daughter, Micki Clendenin, when she cast her ballot. In both cases, poll workers at the site had them touch the screen a few more times, and the voting machine changed their ballot to their candidate choice.

"The lady came in, and she was -- very nicely, she just said, 'it's just been doing that.' She said, 'just hit it again.' So we hit it again, and this time it did go to Obama," Clendenin said.

CNN's Brian Todd reported that at least five voters in two West Virginia counties said they encountered the same problem. State and local officials said that they were isolated cases and that poll workers fixed the problems so the correct vote was cast.

The machines were manufactured by an Omaha, Nebraska-based company, Election System and Software. The machines will be used in several states this year and were among those that had problems in Ohio in 2004.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/voting.problems/index.html

More about Electoin System and Software:
Republican Chuck Hagel was CEO of the company until shortly before his election in November 1996 to the United States Senate from Nebraska. The election was conducted almost exclusively on equipment provided by his former company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Systems_&_Software
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So they can't vote with chads, can't vote with touch screen and can't vote any other way.

Maybe for whoever they want to vote, they can just put their hands up. I'm sure if they live in a Liberal Democrat run district they have some experience with that...
 
Use a pen and paper, and a tested and certified optical scanner device. We've never had any issues using that particular combination.
 
KingCondanomation said:
So they can't vote with chads, can't vote with touch screen and can't vote any other way.

Maybe for whoever they want to vote, they can just put their hands up. I'm sure if they live in a Liberal Democrat run district they have some experience with that...
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Do you understand what happened with the chads?


So many people voted that they did not empty the chad boxes often enough.

So in the boxes had stacks of chads under the most popular candidates.

They would push the pin in as far as it would go and think they had marked it correctly.

The voter did nothing wrong.

with the electronic machines they dont have to do anything wrong either.

I cant believe there are so many republican americans who dont give a rats ass about wether our democracy is being subverted as long as their team is winning.

You guys suck.
 
KingCondanomation said:
So they can't vote with chads, can't vote with touch screen and can't vote any other way.

Maybe for whoever they want to vote, they can just put their hands up. I'm sure if they live in a Liberal Democrat run district they have some experience with that...
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Thats not the point. point is people click on obama and Mccain goes into the system... and the system happens to come from a company that a prominent republican was the ceo of.

surely you can see a problem with that.
 
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