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Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count
Catbeller writes "The AP is reporting that Randy Wooten, mayoral candidate for Waldenburg Arkansas (a town of eighty people) discovered that the electronic voting system hadn't registered the one vote he knew had been cast for him ... because he cast it himself. The Machine gave him zero votes. That would be an error rate of 3%, counting the actual votes cast — 18 and 18 for a total of 36." From the article: "Poinsett County Election Commissioner Junaway Payne said the issue had been discussed but no action taken yet. 'It's our understanding from talking with the secretary of state's office that a court order would have to be obtained in order to open the machine and check the totals,' Payne said. 'The votes were cast on an electronic voting machine, but paper ballots were available.'"
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Why? Don't they have first-graders who can help them count the votes?
Nobody. Women aren't allowed to vote in arkansas! Please. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me they have electricity, running water, civil rights, and high schools down there!
I wrote in "Cthulhu" for Governor and the optical scan machine was jammed so
the poll worker--some asian dude--told me to put the ballot in the lockbox
slot. I had trouble getting it in because one of the pages was bent so the
guy grabbed the ballot and moved them. On top was my write-in: CTHULHU
in big black letters. He paused. Looked at it, looked at me. Swallowed. And
I said "Thank you" and left.
"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
women voting?!?!
thats preposterous!
No many countries now allow women to vote, some even let them drive cars as well . . . now that's truly preposterous. It's a mad world!
.. with the words 'votting masheen' written on the cardboard box in crayon. He didn't count the vote because - in his words - Randy Wooten is 'a big poo-poo head.'
That's not meant to be funny. It's true. The software and insides of the machine are considered trade secrets, and nobody can look at either.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
The system works fine. I voted for the other guy 18 times and each time the machines worked perfectly.
And the count came out correct. I don't see the problem.
Your candidate won!!
I have heard that some nations allow women to regard those things that they have bought with their fathers' and husbands' money as their OWN POSSESSIONS!
Travelling forward in time at a rate of 1 second per second.
ZOMG! WERE DOOMED!!!
Oh well... I knew it was coming, because you see, we have GAY REPUBLICANS!
Now you offended me, Dog should definatly be before Horse!
You should've seen it. He just pranced into the voting booth, pirouetted through the procedures, and waltzed out of there. Anyone could've had his vote for a song.
Or, perhaps, did you mean "ballot" and not "ballet"?
So if I said your wife was a dog, it would be a compliment?
No many countries now allow women to vote, some even let them drive cars as well
And don't even need a weapons permit to drive. Amazing.
morcego
Actually, the word here is scary. If things go wrong with just 36 votes in a town of 80 people, what do you think this means for an entire country voting electronically?
Even more scary... why is a town of 80 using electronic voting at all? Shouldn't they get a gas station first?
point is, it's kind of hard to smooth over this and handwave. With, say, 1 vote out on a vote of 40/80, nobody will know for sure. With this guy, we know something's fishy. The voting machine company just got caught balls-deep in apple pie, so to speak.
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
I live in a town of 88. It has four gas stations.
"The Federal Reserve is a fraudulent system."--Lew Rockwell
End The FED. -
No, really, it's not funny. Stop modding it funny.
If I said "the sun is bright" would that be modded as funny?
You expect a married couple to always have the same political views? That would be kinda boring, no?
> Even more scary... why is a town of 80 using electronic voting
> at all? Shouldn't they get a gas station first?
We have cleanest prostitutes in region.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Women driving? But who has a house big enough that she can't just WALK between the washing machine and the cooker?
End Women's Suffrage now!
Most people aren't thought about after they're gone. "I wonder where Rob got the plutonium" is better than most get.
The sun is bright. *crickets*
"Wooten got the news from his wife, Roxanne, who went to City Hall on Wednesday to see the election results. 'She saw my name with zero votes by it. She came home and asked me if I had voted for myself or not. I told her I did,' said Wooten, owner of a local bar."
The guy's wife didn't even vote for him.
t would take a COMPLETE FREAKIN' MORON to field a computer program that can't count to 80 without screwing up!
Welcome to the wild and wacky world of commercial software development.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Well I imagine that would be partially because of the Diebold voting machines since that brings the total to %110.
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So your argument is that the voting machine uses a D20 to get the results?
Lars T.
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Can they?