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The topic is suspected voting machine fraud.

Please stick to that rather than each other.

Thank you

Wow, talk about ghost in the machine.
I want a paper ballot, please...

I suppose its possible, but it seems a little too obvious. If you're going to cheat, do it right. You don't give outward visual clues that its happening. If this were intentional, I doubt that it would be so apparent.

It sounds like a malfunctioning machine to me.

When will we ever learn? The sheeple called us conspiracy theorists, kooky nuts, paranoid, and all kinds of names when we talked about machines that dropped votes, counted negative votes, when there was wide-spread voter fraud and public disenfranchisement. Then when Diebold admitted their machines dropped votes, everyone shrugged their shoulders, and a few peons got sentenced.

We're so conditioned into being automatons. Do this, do that, don't argue, just do as you're told....right off the cliff.

In coincidental timming someone posted a video about the election fraud and how the machines were rigged during the bush/gore elecetion yesterday

sorry i dont hav the link and have no idea what the post was called so searching could take a while

From page 2 of the article:

Deputy Secretary of State Sarah Bailey said, "When we received a call about this, we immediately called the county and told them to recalibrate the machines to make sure the finger-touch [area] lines up with the ballot.

"Sometimes machines can become miscalibrated when they are moved from storage facilities to early voting areas," Bailey said Friday. "We get a couple of calls about this each election year."

I don't know how many here have ever used a touch screen machine, but they do have to be recalibrated occasionally or they won't work properly. It is concerning that they didn't make sure they recalibrated these machines before they let voters use them, but it wasn't necessarily done with nefarious intentions. All it takes, in my experience, is one too many hard pushes to throw off the calibration, so it is also entirely possible that the first few people to use these particular machines pushed too hard when making their choice and that caused them to not work properly.

It's a machine. Machine's need maintenance occasionally to work properly. They should have checked the machines before letting anyone use them. BUT the users shouldn't have jumped to the conclusion that their votes were being changed on purpose either.



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Calibrated shmalibrated, how often does anyone here have to re-calibrate their calculators?
Or telephones, "oops, sorry wrong number, I guess I have to recalibrate my phone."

Weight scales need re-calibration, not touch screens IMO.

Pure vote fraud, they are doing it again!

In the 2004 Presidential election, my husband and I went to the polls together. He tried to vote for Bush and at least two times his vote was changed to Kerry. My husband reported it to the polling place and they said that had happened numerous times throughout the day. I remember coming back and posting the experience here on ATS because everyone was so convinced that the polls were rigged in Bush's favor but it seemed to be the other way around.

The most important thing to remember is to check your votes before casting the final page. You can go back and make corrections as many times as necessary so if for some reason there is a glitch in the system and a candidate that you did not choose pops up, just go back and change it.

Be sure to report any problems to the supervisor at the polling place. I'm sure there will be some problems but it's up to the voter to be sure the answers are correct before pushing the final button which casts their vote.

Jemison

I work with touchscreens alll day and it does happen. Not defending it. Honestly i think the dems will steal it this time around.