I hit it in the square to vote for Obama. Immediately, it went to McCain.
 

This is not the Acorn so called fraud ( in Acorn, nobody voted, they just got registered ..)

In a very important state:

http://wvgazette.com/News/200810200711

WINFIELD, W.Va. - Two more Putnam County voters - Martha Louise Harrington and Michael K. Koon - have come forward about problems they experienced on early-voting electronic machines at the Winfield courthouse.

Last week, other early voters in Jackson and Putnam counties said touch-screen voting machines changed their votes after they tried to punch them in.

Harrington, a retired home health worker who lives in Hurricane, said, "I was very cautious to put my fingernail in the middle of the square. I hit it in the square to vote for Obama. Immediately, it went to McCain.

"A Putnam County poll worker, who seemed very knowledgeable, told me to hit the McCain button to erase it. Then you start over. My next vote held. I think a lot of people, especially elderly people, are not going to catch that.

"I have talked to people who said the same thing happened them when the voted for [Governor Joe] Manchin," Harrington said on Monday. "I hope this publicity makes the public more aware of what is going."

Deputy Secretary of State Sarah Bailey said 21,194 West Virginians had already cast early votes by Friday.

"Early voting becomes more popular every year," she said. "All the voting systems [in West Virginia] are manufactured by ES&S."

Election Systems and Software, a company based in Omaha, Neb., has faced problems and controversies in other states.

In California, for example, Secretary of State Debra Brown issued a legal order on Aug. 3, 2007, banning the use of ES&S machines in any future California election.

Ken Fields, an ES&S spokesman in St. Louis, did not return a telephone call to his office on Monday.

Koon said he had no problem casting an early vote for president.

"However, when I chose Jay Rockefeller - and there is at least a finger's distance between the two choices - it selected Jay Wolfe and printed his name on the receipt.

"I pushed Jay Rockefeller again a few times and it canceled Jay Wolfe. Then I chose Jay Rockefeller again and it verified it."

Koon believes voting machines at the Putnam County Courthouse need to be "calibrated."

Oh Really?

Ooops. Someone didn't program the vote stealing software to work right.

Yup... between dodgy voting machines and illegal purging of the electoral roll, McSame has got it sewn up. The Republikkkans have had 8 years of practice to perfect their vote stealing. That's why the polls showing Obama in a clear lead don't mean shit.

Who would have ever thought that WV would be an important state?

Excellent...the patch is working perfectly.

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happened here in Florida too go figure :Oh crap

its crazy, they should go back to paper.

Then they would most probably have same problem as last time with the hanging chads. How about just pen and paper and write down their vote and put it in a locked box.

Ive heard about it in other states as well, I wanna say NC. You can report the bad machines to the Obama campaign somewhere on their website and possibly theyll have someone on site? Also report to the poll workers.

That's why Obama has 5000 volunteer lawyers, paralegals and law students in Florida alone waiting for issues on election day.

the lord works in mysterious ways, there's no way god is gonna let votes be cast for that anti-christ demon osama.

crazy. This is just fucking rediculous.

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Who let the god damn Russians anywhere near the voting machines?

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Rocks...paint one red for reps or blue for dems...maybe it is heavy to count, but hey, can't get paint wrong, can you?

This is why Obama could go into the election with a 30 point lead and still lose, and the American people will just go "oh well. Here goes another 8 years."

Here we go with another Bush Election.

What a novel idea.

Up here in Canada we use a pencil to mark an 'X' in the circle beside our choices name and slip the folded paper ballot into a sealed box; Not much room for mistakes or misunderstandings. At the close of the polls, members of the respective parties count the ballots by hand and the results are known within hours. No need for hanging chads or screwed up software; just a pencil and a paper ballot.

Yes because technology has not figured out yet how to create a paper receipt from an electronical machine that could be counted by humans at need or whim.

Good maybe we'll be spared from Obama actually being able to run this country (fyi I dont like mccain either)

.. and when the results are so close, a recount takes place ... easy, we have the ballots ...

The problem isn't that its' not paper, they do print out paper receipts....
it's that the code is secure, no one's allowed to review it. No one's allowed to double check the systems, no one's allowed to watch the process in action. No one's allowed to verify that everything's ok before, during or after.

That's just wrong. If it's supposed to be so important, there'd be 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th measures taken to ensure it's right.

We do that in the UK and their are drawbacks. You do get spoiled slips where people have ticked their choice or signed the ballot paper. If you mark the paper with anything other than an x next to your candidates name, they simply dont count the vote. With machines that doesnt happen, but you get all this bollocks, so I guess your still better off with a pencil and paper.

Ya know... with poretty much EVERYTHING being caught on video nowadays...
why isn't simple shit like this?

Couldn't be bullshit from obama loving attention whores now could it?
naw.. couldn't be.

Im amazed at that. The machines should be checked by all parties.

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hac.../synopsis.html

Watch, learn, grow.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...emocracy&hl=en

thats how its supposed to be :2 cents:

I don't want to see a documentary.. (again)
I want to see someone in an actual voting booth press Obama, and see it change to McCain.

Fine, until that happens, don't spout out crap about people being Obama loving attention whores if you refuse to educate yourself first.

read the article... bozo

I've seen hacking democracy. 2 years ago.
Now I want to see it actually happen, in this election, with video proof of the entire voting process...
otherwise, it's exactly what it smells like, bullshit.

I'm sorry, was there something in the article I missed about there being video proof of this happening?
I'm not saying it couldn't, or hasn't happen.
I'm not saying electronic voting machines are infallible.
And I definately believe they should be giving paper receipts.

It just seems odd, that with all the attention this problem has drawn, that there's still a problem with this shit... and in these stories it almost always seems to be the Dem losing the vote to the Republican...

I just want to SEE IT HAPPEN ONCE in this election.
That right there, could/would/should put an end to electronic voting once and for all.

simple.

damn, he's definitely prepared

Voting is private, so hold your breath for a video proof ....


I would of liked a video proof of those stock piles of WMD ...

fucking robbery!

The smaller details make up parts of a larger picture.

ACLU demands info on domestic military deployments.



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yup, preparing for a McCain victory :2 cents:

Using touch screens for something as important as voting is idiotic... They need calibration often.. they drift based on temperature, high voltage "spikes" can throw them off etc. etc. etc... morons..