Voting in Texas....Be Careful

[pbmus]

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[dameatball]

1. Wow!!!! Saving any further comments.

[Caliman73]

2. Thank goodness my small county still does paper ballots.

Not that they are perfect, but having paper in your hand gives a sense of confidence that touch screens can't. Computers can mess up or be messed up and if you don't catch it, then you basically become disenfranchised.

Good luck out there!

[ProudLib72]

3. KnR for exposure!

[Gothmog]

4. The state party is trying to get the word out and educate voters

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Here is a decent explanation of the issue from a local news station

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[gratuitous]

6. Miya Shay's explanation is decent enough

But even as she's handling the eSlate machine, you can see how cumbersome it is and the array of buttons and dials seems designed to foil anyone who doesn't have full possession of their faculties. If you have Parkinson's or you're cold or nervous, it looks like it would be real easy to hit a button more than once and not realize it.

And once again, all the reports seem to be switching from D-to-R, not R-to-D. So amazingly coincidental, it almost seems deliberate.

[Gothmog]

8. Normally, the eslate is locked or fixed to the voting booth

There is one machine that is portable that you can take outside for disabled voting.

Two years ago, I was the election judge for a primary run off and the Judge Booth Controller crashed 7 times. It was fun but my count of voters was the same as the JBC and so no votes were lost. These machines are old

[ProudLib72]

9. This seems to be leading up to a contested election

Either way it goes. Sorry Gothmog, but TX voting is positively Byzantine.

[GemDigger]

5. K & R

[Major Nikon]

7. ...

[MagickMuffin]

10. It's actually illegal to photograph your ballot, however,

since these hackable machines don't have a paper trail I can see where this law needs to be changed in regards to our own ballots!