One Voting machine altering votes

[Riot]

Probably just a faulty machine (rather than any deliberate shenannigans) - but IT MATTERS - look at the video!

This guy took the video this am, it's here on YouTube - you press Obama and you get Romney.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd...ature=youtu.be

He's contacted the election complaint board (he said on Reddit)

My wife and I went to the voting booths this morning before work. There were 4 older ladies running the show and 3 voting booths that are similar to a science fair project in how they fold up. They had an oval VOTE logo on top center and a cartridge slot on the left that the volunteers used to start your ballot.

I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.

I asked the voters on either side of me if they had any problems and they reported they did not. I then called over a volunteer to have a look at it. She him hawed for a bit then calmly said "It's nothing to worry about, everything will be OK." and went back to what she was doing. I then recorded this video.

There is a lot of speculation that the footage is edited. I'm not a video guy, but if it's possible to prove whether a video has been altered or not, I will GLADLY provide the raw footage to anyone who is willing to do so. The jumping frames are a result of the shitty camera app on my Android phone, nothing more.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

Probably just a faulty machine (rather than any deliberate shenannigans) - but IT MATTERS - look at the video!

This guy took the video this am, it's here on YouTube - you press Obama and you get Romney.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd...ature=youtu.be

He's contacted the election complaint board (he said on Reddit)

There were several articles about this happening last week in the early voting, but it was the other way around. If you tried to vote for Romney, it would come up as a vote for Obama. They said that it was just a glitch and could be fixed quickly by calling a poll worker to reset the machine.

[Rupert Pupkin]

This is totally illegal. Here is an election judge wearing an Obama cap at the polls.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...rd_661843.html

Here is another thing that is totally illegal. There is a mural of Obama inside the polling place. Nobody enforces the voting laws.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...ion-officials/

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

There were several articles about this happening last week in the early voting, but it was the other way around. If you tried to vote for Romney, it would come up as a vote for Obama. They said that it was just a glitch and could be fixed quickly by calling a poll worker to reset the machine.

The machine has been taken out of service, per NBC News a while ago.

The guy said he called a poll worker over, and ... well, you can read what she said - wasn't worried about it.

I used a manual ballot today, for just that reason.

I don't understand why the USA can't run an efficient election. We need Election Day to be a national holiday, and damn, just have manual ballots and have counting machines that are accurate. Not hard!

My polling place was jammed, and they only had the usual two electronic machines. They had the usual 4 manual stalls set up, then added just 2 more manual stalls. The line was 10 people, but the wait was only about 15 minutes.

[Riot]

Some more polling problems today -

A friend of mine in Illinois was told today by the poll worker that he had to see a drivers license "to prove your citizenship" - obviously a DL doesn't "prove" that, and in Illinois other identifications are allowed aside from a DL.

There was one polling place in a city school cafeteria, where there was a huge mural of Obama with "hope change" on one wall, with the Obama logo. Clearly can't have that, it's "electioneering within 300 feet". It was covered.

Precincts throughout New York City, including many unaffected by last week’s storm, had lines of voters stretching for blocks. In many cases, this was because scanners had broken down or there were simply not enough poll workers to accommodate the perfectly predictable big crowds. As Mayor Bloomberg (a frequent critic of the board) put it, “I kept hearing, ‘What’s this, a third-world country?’ ”

A poll worker on the Upper East Side couldn’t find Mr. Bloomberg’s name in the voter rolls, so she gave the book to him to let him find his own name. Mayor or not, that violates the rules.

Voters were being turned away in Pennsylvania for not having a photo ID card, even though that requirement isn’t in effect for this election.

A voter in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood walked into a polling place and was handed a “sample ballot guide.” It turned out to be a guide on how to vote Republican on every question, from a party worker electioneering (illegally) inside the polling place.

Ohio’s election board made a serious error and falsely told thousands of people they were not registered. Rather than fix the problem, state officials decided those people would have to use provisional ballots, which will not be counted for two weeks.

Some Latino voters in Arizona who thought they registered on the same day they got United States citizenship were not on the rolls. One Latino voter was asked by a poll worker who she planned to vote for.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/...-at-the-polls/

[bigrun]

My voting place was at a VFW post...when you got to the check in table there was a sheet showing you how to use the machine and another sheet telling you the types of ID you needed...had 4 or 5 choices...I presented my voter ID and drivers license and the lady said she only needed one..gave my voter ID card with no photo and that was it...and i read about some places that require you to fill out long form b4 voting...