New Mexico Touchscreen Voting Problems

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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used to this already...

[St. Arbirix]

Who hasn't seen this happen for touchscreen machines. More often than not the sensor plate thingy is offset downward of the screen so that when you press the screen the cursor will appear half an inch above it. There are two issues here.

1) Someone should fix the screen/driver so that it is aligned.

2) The woman is insane.

They keep saying in the article that they click on one candidate but then it gets "switched" to a vote for another candidate, as if the machine sees a Kerry vote and decides half a second later to change it to one for Bush. It's propaganda, for those of you who didn't look hard enough. Just another piece of that "There are evil people out there who want to rob you of your vote. If you see anything funny at the polls you'll know who's evil."