WhoCountsTheVotes
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Tue Mar-02-04 07:33 AM
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Poll question: Are you voting on "Black Box" voting machines today? |
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A "Black Box" voting machine is one with no audit trail, no paper ballot, and no way to recount votes by hand. Are you voting on a Black Box Voting machine today? Where are you voting?
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coltman
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Tue Mar-02-04 07:43 AM
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Last year voting for Gov. of Ohio 2punch cards and 2machines(count that 4 attempts)would not let me vote for the dem candidates for gov.& Lt. gov. The chad thing was not perforated.
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Tue Mar-02-04 07:43 AM
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I really like the lever machines.
There's no way that they can be manipulated from a centralized location. Faud is possible, but it would take so much time and effort, you'd have to do each machine separately, and they all have locks and counters are checked as each vote is cast...
Hopefully NY will be requiring a paper ballot, voter verified, with new machines. We're NOT going to have Diebold here...
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Tue Mar-02-04 03:43 PM
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100 year old technology in NY...still works for me!
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Tue Mar-02-04 07:44 AM
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In San Diego.
I intend to make a big stink about it, too. I'm just going to ask the poll worker to check and verify that my vote was counted. Then act surprised when he doesn't have a ballot to show me. Then ask him how he proposes to do a recount if there's a problem.
I'm going to try timing it to get a good crowd, too.
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Tue Mar-02-04 07:50 AM
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4. Please report your experiences! |
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I would be interested if they can answer your questions.
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Tue Mar-02-04 10:58 PM
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No answers. Lots of confused looks.
"We haven't had any problems with them all day" was the best response I got.
And everybody else in the room was interested in what I had to say.
I don't think the poll workers are too happy with me.
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Tue Mar-02-04 08:38 AM
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5. Definitely not; caucusing n/t |
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Tue Mar-02-04 09:31 AM
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We have no option - the entire state is DRE. Even absentee ballots are counted by these machines.
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Tue Mar-02-04 10:06 AM
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7. We still use punchcards. |
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If and when the dreaded black boxes appear, I'm going absentee.
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Tue Mar-02-04 11:12 AM
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8. Yes, in Columbus, Ohio |
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I'm in the heart of Diebold country, so I'm stuck without an audit trail. :( I've used the touch screens several times already. They're incredibly easy to use which is wonderful, but the lack of safeguards always leaves me wondering if I've actually voted.
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Tue Mar-02-04 11:56 AM
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have you voted yet? Please keep us informed, thanks!
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Tue Mar-02-04 12:34 PM
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10. Looks like we no longer live in a Democracy |
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Tue Mar-02-04 03:17 PM
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12. San Diego, California |
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Where our registrar of voters selected Liebold with no public input, and keeps saying there's no problems with them. Blegh
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Tue Mar-02-04 03:44 PM
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I'm curious about them.
I'm also not paranoid.
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