Early voting problems in West Virginia

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Early voting problems in West Virginia

#1 Post by Bob78164 » Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:33 pm

Some West Virginia early voters are reporting that touch-screen voting machines are switching votes from Obama to McCain and from Democratic candidates for other offices to the competing Republican candidates. Apparently, these machines do not provide a voter-verified paper trail. --Bob
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Re: Early voting problems in West Virginia

#2 Post by Sir_Galahad » Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:46 pm

And the problem is????

Perhaps they should contact ACORN to see if they can "fix" the problem.
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Re: Early voting problems in West Virginia

#3 Post by silverscreenselect » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:18 pm

Sir_Galahad wrote:And the problem is????
Probably that the machines don't work too well if they get chewing tobacco in them.
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Re: Early voting problems in West Virginia

#4 Post by Timsterino » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:25 pm

Bob78164 wrote:Some West Virginia early voters are reporting that touch-screen voting machines are switching votes from Obama to McCain and from Democratic candidates for other offices to the competing Republican candidates. Apparently, these machines do not provide a voter-verified paper trail. --Bob
This is why Florida switched from touch screen to ballots scanned by computer. Crap like this was happening here.
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Re: Early voting problems in West Virginia

#5 Post by BackInTex » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:31 pm

Bob78164 wrote:Some West Virginia early voters are reporting that touch-screen voting machines are switching votes from Obama to McCain and from Democratic candidates for other offices to the competing Republican candidates. Apparently, these machines do not provide a voter-verified paper trail. --Bob
I don't trust any of the all electronic voting stuff. Reminds me of elections in Venezuela or Cuba.

AND THE WINNER IS.......SURPRISE! BY UNANIMOUS VOTE IT IS....[put your own despot here]

And everyone is thinking "wtf? How can it be unanimous? I KNOW it is not unanimous". But still..
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Re: Early voting problems in West Virginia

#6 Post by nitrah55 » Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:42 pm

Paper, paper, paper.

There's a lot to be said for it.
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Re: Early voting problems in West Virginia

#7 Post by gsabc » Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:23 pm

For drugs, they require that all computer systems involved in making them are tested and fully validated that they work correctly each and every time they're used. before being put in place. For voting, apparently, similar standards aren't necessary, or else they use the missile system test criteria, with only specific controlled aspects and targets are checked.

Not to create another bureaucracy or anything, but we need a bureau of Quality Assurance in government, to make sure that they follow their own rules and regulations. Sheesh!

Oh, and Sir_G, nice relevant comment.
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Re: Early voting problems in West Virginia

#8 Post by Jeemie » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:11 am

Diebold to the rescue for McCain!!!!
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