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EL PRESIDENTE

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Share yours. I was able to walk in, just say my name, no ID check and was able to vote! no line though, just walked in...in and out within 10 minutes.

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I have this "I Voted" sticker. what the fuck now to do with it. didn't get a free coffee at Peets this year. fuckers.
 
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El Pres, are you in Orange county? Lines are pretty long here in FL.
 
I sat on my couch, read and mailed it
 
About a week ago I marked my ballot, applied stamp, dropped in mailbox.
 
Two weeks ago, I filled my ballot out and then dropped it into a ballot box at city hall.
 
Slept in late this morning. Will hit the local Salvation army after work. I waited 3hrs in line last time. Won't do that again this year.
 
I dropped my ballot in the drop box at Pioneer Square before work yesterday.
 
http://gawker.com/5958114/an-expert-weighs-in-on-that-viral-reddit-voter-fraud-video

When we asked people to share their stories of voting irregularity earlier today, dozens of people shared this video — currently on the Reddit front page with nearly 20,000 up-votes — of a Pennsylvania voting machine seemingly altering a man's vote from Obama to Romney. We reached out to Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Senior Staff Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology, to ask his opinion; here's what he told us:

"It's a concern but not because of fraud... that's an obviously miscalibrated iVotronic (ES&S) voting machine... we would recommend that poll workers would recalibrate the machine and everything would be fine. Also, with some models of voting system if you place a thumb on accident while resting on the machine it can "bias" the calibration of the touchscreen up towards the errant thumb. That could be happening to, if it's only for this one voter."
 
yes, there is a perfectly reasonable answer for a machine changing your votes, dont worry about it
 
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How many machines are there, and how many complaints?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...round-States-Switching-Romney-Votes-For-Obama

After complaints from voters in at least six states that their intended votes for Mitt Romney on electronic touchscreen voting machines came up as votes for President Barack Obama, the Republican National Committee (RNC) sent a letter to election officials in six states -- Ohio, Nevada, Kansas, North Carolina, Missouri and Colorado -- asking them to more strictly monitor their electronic voting machines on Election Day.

John R. Phillippe, Jr. sent a letter to election officials in those six states and asked them to, among other things, "re-calibrate all voting machines on the morning of Election Day before the polls open, or, if necessary, the day before the election" and "make arrangements for additional technicians on Election Day in case of increased calibration problems."

The RNC also asked election officials to "issue guidance requiring polling place officials to prominently post a sign reminding voters to double-check that the voting machine properly recorded their vote before final submission" and another requiring "polling place officials to remind voters to double-check that the voting machine properly recorded their vote before final submission, and to note that poll workers should be notified and can assist in the case of a voting machine error."

In North Carolina, an early voter who wanted to vote for Romney saw her vote for him come up as an Obama vote twice before she was able to cast her ballot for Romney.

The same thing happened to a voter in Ohio, when Joan Stevens hit Romney's name on her touchscreen only to see Obama's name come up -- twice.
 
More from the above article:

Barbara Simons, an expert on electronic voting who is on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Commission, said "vote jumping complaints have arisen in every election that uses touch-screen voting machines, with the complaints going both ways."

She said vote-jumping can occur "when a machine goes out of calibration" and the "need to re-calibrate frequently is an important reason for discarding these aging, unreliable, and inaccurate machines and replacing them with paper ballots."

Election officials have insisted that it is "nearly technically impossible" to preconfigure electronic voting machines but conceded that faulty and old touchscreen voting machines were more likely to erroneously record someone's vote, especially if the machines have not been re-calibrated.
 
Wait, it's nearly technically impossible to have you select one choice, and register as another? Gimme a break. Seems awfully easy to do. Not at all saying that is what is happening.
And if those machines are that faulty, seems like a great time to do away with them.
 
Wait, it's nearly technically impossible to have you select one choice, and register as another? Gimme a break. Seems awfully easy to do. Not at all saying that is what is happening.
And if those machines are that faulty, seems like a great time to do away with them.

They're not faulty. They need to be calibrated.

If you don't understand it...

http://www.brighthub.com/electronics/gizmos-gadgets/articles/82196.aspx

Basically, when you press with your finger, an uncalibrated machine can think you pressed somewhere else on the screen. It should be consistent for the most part. Like it's always registering inches below (or above) where you press. Or left/right, or both.
 
yeah, it is impossible to hack computers, everybody knows that
 
They're not hacked.

EDIT - if they were going to hack the machines, they wouldn't make it so obvious by providing a visual clue.
 
They're not hacked.

EDIT - if they were going to hack the machines, they wouldn't make it so obvious by providing a visual clue.

didnt say they were

and yes i agree with you, if someone hacked machines, it would be untraceable and impossible to verify
 
these machines are manually calibrated i assume?
 
these machines are manually calibrated i assume?

Sure. You run a setup program that says "touch the upper left corner of this square (it rendered on the screen)", then "touch the upper right" and so on.
 

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