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Touchscreens switching McCain votes to Obama

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:13 pm
by Stephen Eisel
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.
“I noticed the problem immediately,â€

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:54 pm
by Jim DeVito
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.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:01 pm
by Stephen Eisel
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:

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:03 pm
by Danielle Masters
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.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:09 pm
by Stephen Eisel
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..

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:56 pm
by Missy Limkemann
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.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:59 pm
by Danielle Masters
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.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:15 pm
by sharon kinsella
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?

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:07 am
by Phil Florian
The voting machine that eventually tells me it is looking for Sarah Connor is the one I am worried about.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:24 am
by Jim O'Bryan
Stephen Eisel wrote:Well, I pray to Buddha :wink:


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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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:12 am
by Jim DeVito
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.