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Lucylastic -> 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 12:31:19 PM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Clearly pressing Obama, registers for Romney

Machine turns vote for Obama into one for Romney
Zachary Roth
12:52 pm on 11/06/2012

A Pennsylvania electronic voting machine has been taken out of service after being captured on video changing a vote for President Obama into one for Mitt Romney, NBC News has confirmed. Republicans have also said machines have turned Romney votes into Obama ones.
The video was first posted on Youtube by user “centralpavoter.” It shows a voter’s finger repeatedly pressing the button for Obama, but a check mark coming up next to Romney’s name:
NBC News confirmed that the machine has been taken off line.
Underneath the video, the user gave an account of what happened:Separately, the RNC last week sent a letter (pdf) to elections officials in six other states, including Ohio, Nevada, and Colorado, raising concerns that machines had wrongly counted votes for Romney as ones for Obama, and asking them to address the problem.
Late Update,2:35pm: A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State told Mother Jones a machine that showed that problem, likely the same one, is back online after being “recalibrated.”
http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machine-turns-vote-for-obama-into-one-for-romney/



tazzygirl -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 3:11:36 PM)

You would think these things would have been tested before ever being put into place... either way.



slvemike4u -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 3:41:02 PM)

Damm,I thought I had posted something to this thread,I KNOW i composed a post...I guess I didn't actually submit it.Anyway....



Here's the deal,as much as no one want to ever again hear the word "chad" as in "hanging chads"these new methods not only need to have been tested to a razor's edge,but it must be seen to be infallible too
In other words they must go the extra mile and ensure that we,the electorate are confident in these computers.That we are assured that no smart guy can come along and dicker with our most precious right....and so far,as far as I can see the powers that be have not done this.



JstAnotherSub -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 3:52:04 PM)

I use a touchscreen at work, and sometimes it just goes out of whack and I have to recalibrate it. We all have to use our own log ins to save our particular calibration, because what works for me won't necessarily work for one of my ladies.

That said, these machines should be calibrated so that they work for anyone. I just doubt it is a conspiracy, more than likely had the person gone and hit the candidate below Obama, it would have registered for Obama.



slvemike4u -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 3:57:41 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: JstAnotherSub

I use a touchscreen at work, and sometimes it just goes out of whack and I have to recalibrate it. We all have to use our own log ins to save our particular calibration, because what works for me won't necessarily work for one of my ladies.

That said, these machines should be calibrated so that they work for anyone. I just doubt it is a conspiracy, more than likely had the person gone and hit the candidate below Obama, it would have registered for Obama.

I' not sure that's how we should go about our voting.
Hit c to get b just sounds a little confusing [:D]



tazzygirl -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 4:05:59 PM)

I vote we go back to punch cards which can be scanned as soon as you leave the booth.



JstAnotherSub -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 4:07:13 PM)

I agree Tazzy, but isn't that where all the hanging chads came from a while back?



tazzygirl -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 4:08:42 PM)

I just think we need a more reliable system than a bunch of computers that can be tinkered with.



LookieNoNookie -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 4:10:10 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Clearly pressing Obama, registers for Romney

Machine turns vote for Obama into one for Romney
Zachary Roth
12:52 pm on 11/06/2012

A Pennsylvania electronic voting machine has been taken out of service after being captured on video changing a vote for President Obama into one for Mitt Romney, NBC News has confirmed. Republicans have also said machines have turned Romney votes into Obama ones.
The video was first posted on Youtube by user “centralpavoter.” It shows a voter’s finger repeatedly pressing the button for Obama, but a check mark coming up next to Romney’s name:
NBC News confirmed that the machine has been taken off line.
Underneath the video, the user gave an account of what happened:Separately, the RNC last week sent a letter (pdf) to elections officials in six other states, including Ohio, Nevada, and Colorado, raising concerns that machines had wrongly counted votes for Romney as ones for Obama, and asking them to address the problem.
Late Update,2:35pm: A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State told Mother Jones a machine that showed that problem, likely the same one, is back online after being “recalibrated.”
http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machine-turns-vote-for-obama-into-one-for-romney/


That's gonna leave a mark.



DesideriScuri -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 6:52:11 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
You would think these things would have been tested before ever being put into place... either way.


Maybe they were. lol! [:D]



tazzygirl -> RE: 2012 Voting machine issues (11/6/2012 6:57:17 PM)

Very true. They may have been... lol



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