Damnit! My wife just called me from our polling place.

[11 Bravo]

We are in Northern VA, a blue enclave in a red state. This morning, as I posted earlier, I had difficulties in casting my vote on the machine. Well, she just visited the same polling place after work, and informs me that her vote for Jim Webb was flipped to Felix Allen TWICE. She never hit the VOTE screen until her vote finally registered for Webb, but is this what we're up against? (FYI, she laughs at my conspiracy theories, and calls DU my "wingnut website, so this isn't tinfoil talking."

[seabeyond]

1. have her report. thisis what htey want to know about

what? they start this for the evening crowd after anything can be done?

[babylonsister]

2. FYI, 11Bravo, here's a thread to put that on, and for the record,

that stinks. Makes you wonder just how many people that's happening to.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2600685&mesg_id=2600685

[Justitia]

3. That is INSANE! Report this to the DNC: 888-DemVote -eom

[sakabatou]

4. Report it to the polling workerss

[adamuu]

5. did you report it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2600685

Take these phone numbers with you when you vote. If you experience problems of any kind, stay where you are and CALL:

1-888-DEM-VOTE (Democratic voter assistance from the DNC)
1-866-OUR-VOTE (Election Protection coalition)
1-866-MY-VOTE-1 (Fels Institute of Government at University of Pennsylvania)

AFTER you get your voting problem solved, and AFTER you report it to the numbers above, post about it in this thread.

We will open additional threads throughout the day if they become necessary.

[adamuu]

7. lol slow to the punch, i guess. n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. If we can just get the investigations started, I suggest we put up

a $500,000 bonus for information that would prove positive that those machines were rigged. And don't be surprised if the person who comes forward is some foreign IT specialist which was given the outsourced job.

[bluethruandthru]

12. Great idea...

I'll contribute to that reward fund!

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. Hey, me too!

[bluethruandthru]

8. Too bad she didn't take pictures of the machine

registering her vote incorrectly.

[IndyOp]

9. DNC: 1-888-DEM-VOTE and/or 1-866-OUR-VOTE and/or

1-888-SAV-VOTE

We MUST document the problems so candidates can get court orders to seize the machines for forensic analysis.

CALL!!

[Mr_Spock]

10. Fucking retarded misaligned touch-screens

How can something that needs "calibrating" be allowed? People could easily "calibrate" the screen so that it would favor one party or the other depending on their location on the screen. Too stupid to believe!

[Morgana LaFey]

18. Retarded? Or are they actually smart screens? nt

[Mr_Spock]

19. I guess that's open to interpretation!

Not a good system at all!!

[Torgo Johnson]

11. This is why I can't trust exit polls

People will report voting for Webb and their actual vote will wind up showing Allen

[unpossibles]

14. yeah, but that says we can't trust the vote

not the polls.

btw, it's looking good here in Ohio. I'm actually surprised Blackwell's doing as well as he is.

:)

[NoSheep]

13. Please let us know when you report this.

[11 Bravo]

15. Already done.

At 1-888-DEM-VOTE, and at 1-800-SAV-VOTE.

[NoSheep]

17. Thank you!

[redacted]

16. Play the final scene in "Hacking Democracy" for her, the one with crying researchers

who just saw the flipped vote demonstration carried out by the University of Helsinki professor before one of the Florida registrars of voters.

Then see if she still thinks we're a bunch of conspiracy nuts.

[cry baby]

20. I saw that this morning, she made me cry, too.

and it was so good to see Andy!

[TahitiNut]

21. It would take all the self-control I have (and maybe more) ...

... to keep from smashing that machine on the floor. :grr: :grr:

[bobbolink]

22. Let me guess...none of the machines are % ally" flipping to Dems..

right?

I hope she called one or more of the official numbers.

I guess you'll get less grief from her about "tinfoil" now, eh?

[In Truth We Trust]

24. K&R Hand Counted Paper Ballots NOW! DEMOCRACY NOW!!! OR Fascism FOREVER.

[enigmacat]

25. Similiar thing happened to me. I posted about it in GD earlier.

My vote for a Dem switched to a Repub, too. I had to deselect the Repub, and reselect the Dem. I called 1-866-Our-Vote, and reported it.

[atfqn]

26. Where was she voting from?

I voted in Fairfax - Westbrook HS on Main St. and a friend voted in Falls Church. We both had accurate on screen reports. Side note: We were voting on black in color "Advanced Election Systems" There were only four menus, two pages of voting, a report and finally a big gray VOTE button. No paper, but I didn't SEEM to have any problems. As of 2:14 pm only 389 people had voted at my location.