Thread: Talk & Report About Your Voting Machines

I use a pencil in my district.

Originally Posted by CountryBoy

Voting Machines? Why we'uns just use the old fashion punch cards, but then us country folk, are smart enuff to look at the back of the card for any of them there hangin pieces of paper yo'uns call chads.

Those seem to really bamboozle most of the country or maybe it's just the city folk, but shucks, just plain old horse sense will tell ya to look at the back of that puch card to make sure you had the strength to push out those itty bitty square pieces of paper.

And placing your mark on a piece of paper with one of them there writing sticks, seem even more fool proof, then there would be no whaling and whining about them there machines always cheating for them there evil lying sob conservatives. You know those people want to make all the old folks eat dog food? Well they may have to when them evil sob's take all there money.

It sounds to me that some folks need to have training on them there machines. Just a thought.

CB

Chads aren't the only things dangling in them thare fangdangled comtraptions !

Originally Posted by squalebear

Chads aren't the only things dangling in them thare fangdangled comtraptions !

I just had my POSH training so I didn't want to go there.

CB

Originally Posted by CountryBoy

I just had my POSH training so I didn't want to go there.

CB

Yeah, and don't forget about third party offense, sensitivity training has made my feelings fragile.

Originally Posted by CountryBoy

Voting Machines? Why we'uns just use the old fashion punch cards, but then us country folk, are smart enuff to look at the back of the card for any of them there hangin pieces of paper yo'uns call chads.

Those seem to really bamboozle most of the country or maybe it's just the city folk, but shucks, just plain old horse sense will tell ya to look at the back of that puch card to make sure you had the strength to push out those itty bitty square pieces of paper.

And placing your mark on a piece of paper with one of them there writing sticks, seem even more fool proof, then there would be no whaling and whining about them there machines always cheating for them there evil lying sob conservatives. You know those people want to make all the old folks eat dog food? Well they may have to when them evil sob's take all there money.

It sounds to me that some folks need to have training on them there machines. Just a thought. CB

HA! CB, you sound just like most of the people at my last family reunion.
Seriously though, I can see how a "touch" screen is a mistake waiting to happen for a lot of folks, especially the older voters who never bothered to keep up with our modern technologies. The machine I voted on last week did not have the touch screen. There were actual buttons (on both sides of the monitor), next to each candidate. After pushing the button next to the candidate of your choice, you pushed the "next" button at the lower, right corner of the monitor. A second screen/page displayed local ballot selections to choose from and also a "confirm your vote" button. It seemed fairly easy and self-explanatory to me, but I'll bet it was still confusing for some of our local good 'ol boys...and girls.

I would also favor the old paper and pencil method of stuffing a ballot in a box with a slot in the top, but we'll never see that happen. (K.I.S.S.)

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(I used the blue triangle when I voted last week)

E-voting worries linger as Election Day nears
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
This year, with millions of voters casting their votes early, scattered reports of electronic voting machine problems have already cropped up in states like ...


Report: ES&S Voting Machines Can Be Maliciously Calibrated to ...
Wired News - USA
The behavior described is also eerily similar to problems already observed in early voting on ES&S machines and during a 2006 race in Sarasota, Florida. ...

Election 2008: What Might Go Wrong
VoteTrustUSA - Berkeley,CA,USA
Voting machine problems: Electronic voting machines will fail somewhere. This is virtually inevitable, given the sheer number of machines and polling places ...


Report: Flipped votes in Texas early e-voting
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
El Paso County Elections Administrator Javier Chacon, however, denied that the problem is occurring with the e-voting machines. ...


How to build the ideal voting machine
DVICE - USA
All voting methods, from paper ballots to punch cards to electronic voting, have their problems. Punch cards can leave hanging chads. Electronic machines ...


Officials preparing for record turnout
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
The state is deploying about 18000 voting machines, an increase of almost 20 percent from 2004, compared with a 9 percent increase in voter registration, ...


Ed Felten on E-voting: What Can Go Wrong
PC World - USA
So, not malice but just the kind of garden-variety computer problems that we all are used to cropping up on the voting machines. ...


Voting Experts Say High Turnout May Add to Problems at the Polls
New York Times - United States
Most voting experts are not predicting a repeat of the Florida meltdown of 2000, but they are warning that shortages of electronic voting machines or ...


Lawsuits, Machine Malfunctions and Missing Absentee Ballots Among ...
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
Early voters across the country are reporting long lines and problems with electronic voting machines. Republicans, meanwhile, continue to file lawsuits ...


Worry builds over possible confusion on voting day
Globe and Mail - Canada
Pennsylvania, a state many believe could propel either John McCain or Barack Obama into the White House, uses electronic voting machines that retain no ...

And to think this could not have been possible if Kerry or Gore had won.....

Link TV has a special on tonight about the vote fraud in Florida and Ohio in 2004.

Worth watching.

Makes me very, very sad for this nation.

Originally Posted by James48843

Link TV has a special on tonight about the vote fraud in Florida and Ohio in 2004.

Worth watching.

Makes me very, very sad for this nation.

That's history..You got to let it go brother..Tomorrow is a new day, a new beginning...let's face it together, looking forward..

On the way into work this morning I heard about a small town in New Hampshire who had voted , counted, and reported already.

20 registered voters
6 McCain
15 Obama

Hmmm???

Originally Posted by Scout333

On the way into work this morning I heard about a small town in New Hampshire who had voted , counted, and reported already.

20 registered voters
6 McCain
15 Obama

Hmmm???

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