Interesting video from a voting booth this morning
Published on Nov 6, 2012 by centralpavote
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.
No but seriously it is recording audio, that is some shit right there.
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7,116 likes, 372 dislikes
Not my fault that you are gullible. Rigged election.
wehateporn
11-06-2012 12:25 PM
Voting machines are not to save time
Tom_PM
11-06-2012 12:31 PM
Ok. It's not fake. And NBC has already confirmed that the malfunctioning machine was taken offline as of hours ago.
Tom_PM
11-06-2012 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Monotony
(Post 19297892)
Randomness
No but seriously it is recording audio, that is some shit right there.
309 views
7,116 likes, 372 dislikes
Not my fault that you are gullible. Rigged election.
About Youtube. When a video gets rapid views it always hangs at approximately 300, sometimes for about 12 hours or more. It'll reflect the true number when their stats reconcile.
Some people were commenting about that as if it was youtube rigging the counts... as if.
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.”
About Youtube. When a video gets rapid views it always hangs at approximately 300, sometimes for about 12 hours or more. It'll reflect the true number when their stats reconcile.
Some people were commenting about that as if it was youtube rigging the counts... as if.
I've seen the same thing with 3000 views though Tom...
