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New Mexico Touchscreen Voting Problems

Posted by michael on from the prelude-to-the-recount dept.

phr1 writes "The Albuquerque Journal reports yet more hassles with electronic voting machines. Early voters pressing the Kerry button have repeatedly found the machine instead putting a check mark next to 'Bush'. The operators of course say it's the voters' fault. It would be just too unfortunate if the machines happened to systematically favor one candidate over the other, heh, heh."

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  1. Go Boston Tea Party on em by revscat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Destroy the fucking things. They're a blatant means for whoever, Republicans in this case, to disenfranchise millions of voters and skew the election. Break them. Make them not work. Refuse to use them, kick out the plug, tip it over. Take a big magnet to them, sledgehammer, shotgun, whatever.

    Untold numbers of our ancestors have DIED to bring us the right to vote. Such measures as I am suggesting here are no more out of bounds than is locking away a violent criminal.

    Take them down. Justice demands it. I paid for it with my tax dollars, and I do NOT care.

  2. Re:Misaligned Touchscreens by rtaylor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This looks to be nothing more than misaligned touchscreens. The main question is "Are they misaligned on purpose?"

    A better question would be to ask why the order isn't randomized for each new voter?

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    Rod Taylor