Touchscreens switching McCain votes to Obama

Stephen Eisel · Post by **Stephen Eisel** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:13 pm

http://www.decaturcountyonline.com/article.asp?art=1244

[quote]Several Decatur County voters are concerned about problems with the voting machines at the Election Commission Office. Voters claim they tried to vote for McCain for President but the machine checked Obama instead.
At least three voters encountered the problem when casting their early ballot on Saturday morning. Franklin Boroughs says he intended to vote for Republican but rather the computer had checked the Democratic candidate instead.
Wanda and Barney Blasingim similarly said they tried to vote for McCain but the machine switched the vote.
â€œI noticed the problem immediately,â€

Jim DeVito · Post by **Jim DeVito** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:54 pm

And people pray to jesus for a mccain win. One side will always say that the vote is switched to the other side. That is just how it works. Deal with it.

Stephen Eisel · Post by **Stephen Eisel** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:01 pm

Jim DeVito wrote:And people pray to jesus for a mccain win. One side will always say that the vote is switched to the other side. That is just how it works. Deal with it.

Well, I pray to Buddha :wink:

PS The machines switching votes from McCain to Obama must really be defective machines unlike the machines that are switching votes from Obama to McCain :lol:

Danielle Masters · Post by **Danielle Masters** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:03 pm

Stephen this really worries me. I think that voters of any party or no party at all should be confident that when they vote for a candidate their proper vote will register. These touch screens really seem to be more trouble than they are worth.

Stephen Eisel · Post by **Stephen Eisel** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:09 pm

Danielle Masters wrote:Stephen this really worries me. I think that voters of any party or no party at all should be confident that when they vote for a candidate their proper vote will register. These touch screens really seem to be more trouble than they are worth.

Agreed..

Missy Limkemann · Post by **Missy Limkemann** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:56 pm

funny when in West Virginia all the votes were being switched to McCain no one was making this big of a stink about it.
I swear these machines are the worst. No matter who you vote for, if the other person wins, everyone is going to blame the machines.

Danielle Masters · Post by **Danielle Masters** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:59 pm

Missy Limkemann wrote:funny when in West Virginia all the votes were being switched to McCain no one was making this big of a stink about it.
I swear these machines are the worst. No matter who you vote for, if the other person wins, everyone is going to blame the machines.

Which is why the machines need to go.

sharon kinsella · Post by **sharon kinsella** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:15 pm

Stephen I'm surprised at you.

Haven't you been watching the Video the Votes posts on YouTube?

You know the things that go clicky?

Phil Florian · Post by **Phil Florian** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:07 am

The voting machine that eventually tells me it is looking for Sarah Connor is the one I am worried about.

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:24 am

Stephen Eisel wrote:Well, I pray to Buddha

Now that was funny!

Seriously, It does not even matter. Watch "Hacking Democracy." They were able to change the votes on the compact card, just by plugging it in to their card, reader. Or palm one and put in another. Or change the voice at any terminal.

Then we get to the heart of the matter, the woman that downloaded Diebold's code by mistake, and wondered what it was. Hired some people and they found some very, very nasty code built in to it. Diebold claims they then changed it, but it never was, and on and on and on.

This should be considered a serious problem by all Americans. 8 years they still have not fixed anything.

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Jim DeVito · Post by **Jim DeVito** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:12 am

Phil Florian wrote:The voting machine that eventually tells me it is looking for Sarah Connor is the one I am worried about.

That's funny. I hope the voting machines are better at getting Sarah than there 2 legged counterparts.