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Old 11-01-2006, 10:41 PM   #1
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Florida ballot terminals favor Republicans

Another voter who went Democrat across the board kept finding Republicans listed in the summary screen. He made repeated attempts until, finally, the machine registered his votes correctly, and he cast his ballot.
Florida ballot terminals favor Republicans | The Register

If true, funny how these "mistakes" usually swing the Republican way. Yet another reason to refuse to vote electronically.

Edit: Here is a link in the UK report to a report from a Miami site
MiamiHerald.com | 10/28/2006 | Glitches cited in early voting

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Old 11-01-2006, 10:44 PM   #2
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And because a UK paper with an agenda reported it we should all fear the electronic voting machines?
 
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Old 11-01-2006, 10:51 PM   #3
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Republicans don't cheat on votes. Only the Democrats do.


This is common knowledge. That mush have been a simple mistake.

 
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Old 11-01-2006, 10:52 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95 View Post
And because a UK paper with an agenda reported it we should all fear the electronic voting machines?
Check the second link.
 
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Old 11-01-2006, 10:52 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95 View Post
And because a UK paper with an agenda reported it we should all fear the electronic voting machines?
Missed the edit?
 
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Old 11-01-2006, 10:54 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by sj23 View Post
Missed the edit?
YEah your edit wasn't there when I posted. See post time and edit time.
 
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Old 11-01-2006, 10:59 PM   #7
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Let The Whining Begin !
 
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Old 11-01-2006, 11:02 PM   #8
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Let The Whining Begin !
Care to respond to the post? Maybe with something that wouldn't fit on a bumpersticker?
 
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Old 11-01-2006, 11:05 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by alan1000 View Post
Let The Whining Begin !
Yeah, inaccuracies in the basis of our democracy in a problematic state 6 years later is whining.
 
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Old 11-02-2006, 12:48 AM   #10
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Ahhh. Brings up the great memories of the past....















 
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Old 11-02-2006, 09:21 AM   #11
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Rass frassin Republicans messin up thuh votin' booth agin.


Can't have thet.


Kill em and tunr them into Hossenpepper.
 
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Old 11-02-2006, 09:51 AM   #12
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As much as I hate electronic voting, there has only been a few cases where this has happened.

There has been much early voting the last couple weeks and there has only been a handful problems. And even this isn't a problem. There's a review button, and the person kept reviewing until it was finally fixed.

Not a big deal.


I'm much more worried about my cast ballot sitting on the servers out there, waiting to be hacked, than this computer error that happened.
 
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Old 11-02-2006, 12:58 PM   #13
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All this is exactly why the voting computers should only take in and spit out a regular scantron-type ballot, and the only thing it should do is fill in the blanks for people that have trouble with the ballots (Parkinsons, bad eyesight, etc.). The voting machines should not "record" the vote with any electronic method.
 
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Old 11-02-2006, 01:47 PM   #14
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People can't even use machines correctly these days
 
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