Guilford Co. voters say ballot cast for Romney came up Obama

[werepossum]

I literally grew up 5 minutes from Bur-Mil park and go to the area while on leave every 6 months.



Random Machine malfuntions? How fucking hard should it be to do a simple 1 - 2 or on - off type setup? Democrats and Republicans keep crying about voter fraud when shit like this likely causes way more issues than people realize.

Part of it too is how much attention the voter pays. On the live report one could see the soft buttons she pushed, but not the display. Was it truly a machine malfunction, where one vote displayed for Bush but counted for Gore? Or was it a touch screen error that went unnoticed because she was talking? Could she have brushed the screen on one side as she went to touch the other?

For a fair election we need positive ID requirements, accurate machines, dual machine counts, sterile and well-supervised counting rooms, manual spot checks, and a clear paper trail where the ballot shows the vote, both for recounts and for the voter's immediate verification. Even that won't catch Minnesota-type fraud where the election officials make copies of some ballots and "accidentally" mix both the copies and the supposedly tattered ballots in together with all the ballots, but it would stop most of it.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

We must be able to do better then situations like those Texas asshats. Conceal to carry ID come on in, college ID, go home punk.

A concealed handgun license requires the person to be a legal resident of the state where a college ID does not. If you're not a resident of Texas you're not allowed to vote. I'm sure you already knew this was the case.........right?

I gather a lack of reply means you've accepted the fact your statement was not truthful.

 

[Dude111]

Didn't this shit happen in 2004 too? Where people tried to vote for the other guy but it came out Bush.....

Yup i remember hearing about it then also!! (And bush ended up winning)