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WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes
An anonymous reader writes "Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week.
This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for 'Barack Obama' kept flipping to 'John McCain.'"
IF a machine was going to do this, it wasn't going to show the voter that it did it. Wow. 3 events. Did they go to an ACORN meeting and ask, "HAS ANYONE EVER HAD A MACHINE NOT SHOW WHAT THEY VOTED FOR? PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND" Amazing, three whole times, and always switched to republicans. I'd bet if they went to an NRA meeting and asked the same question, they'd get 3 whole people, and miraculously it switched them all to Democrat. But we all know the media doesn't go to NRA meetings unless they're doing an Expose on bitter gun owners...
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Video, or it didn't happen. Until there's a video-documented case of this happening, it's a bullshit claim. It is unfortunate, though, that whoever ends up "winning" the Presidential race will always have the question of whether the victory was legitimate. We can thank ACORN, among others, for this.
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These machines are not "switching votes". They're just not.
If the machines were "switching votes", they'd do it internally and secretly, and not make it look like they're putting checkmarks next to the wrong boxes. Especially since the voter isn't able to view a paper receipt...
Since so many people want to believe that the electronic voting machines are rigged to make Republicans win elections[1], so I'm sure people will choose to believe that this is due to a GOP conspiracy instead of simple errors.
Maybe they're just as incompetent at rigging an election as they are at governing?
Any story about rigged machines needs to include this link.
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No. It is an established fact that the Republicans are biasing the vote by playing statistical dirty tricks: decreasing the chances that Democrats will get to the polls on time, arranging paper user interfaces so that errors tend in their favour, applying different standards of required clarity of marking at different polling stations. Your argument that 'soft' and in principle correctable bias doesn't count is a support of this pattern (whether as a principal or a dupe, I cannot say).
I'm not saying that Democrats never engage in the same activities, by the way, though I do think it's worth noting that I've seen almost no mention of it in the foreign press, while Republican shenanigans have been widely commented on.
Your country has reached the sad point where it can no longer be trusted to run its own elections. That was clear before the polls closed in 2000. I don't see much evidence of change, even if—and here I do agree with you—people have become more sensitive to the issue.
The presidents job should be like any other job. You hire someone based on their resume, what kind of experience and knowledge you have.
Then how the hell did Hillary get into the running?
I always wondered why the inability to lift you arms above your shoulders makes you a better candidate to run a country. Did his arms being broken give him miraculous insight into economic reform? Health care policies? How about the ability to command an army? NO. All it gave him was bitterness, an understanding of torture and the inability to comb his hair. Vote him in as a torture watchdog maybe but i fail to see how broken arms applies to running the country. Imagine if I put on my resume 'i got beat up lots as a kid' when applying for a programming job. They'd have no idea why I included it as it is NOT RELEVANT.
I mean come on. With Florida counting votes using the Jeb Bush system of "Once I run out of fingers to count on, we'll just call it Republicans win by a close call" and with Texas not even counting votes since only thems mex-EEEE-caaans and colored folks would vote against the Christian party. It's just not right that first we denied the state of West Virginia dental care and now we're ignoring their votes.
Did this election really need any more opportunity for jokes. I mean, let McCain have the spare votes from West Virginia. The entire state doesn't have enough electoral votes to worry about and we should let him feel like someone loves him.