The voting machines are rigged: to vote D!

[Painman]

OTOH, Angle might lose simply because she stinks like a 2 week old rotting carcass.

 

[dmcowen674]

Typical. It's ok to lie, cheat and screw people out of their vote as long as you get it your way.
You'd all be hopping mad and calling the system racist if it was the other way around.

You betcha

Drill Baby Drill

 

[CallMeJoe]

...the voting machine technicians in Clark County, where 3/4 of all Nevada residents live and where Reid's son Rory (also running for governor) is a county commissioner, that county where the voting machines are automatically checking Reid's name, are members of the Service Employees International Union. That's right, the same SEIU that has spent $63 million in the 2010 campaign cycle (and plans on spending another $44 million) promoting Democrats and bashing Republicans, is in charge of the voting machines. The SEIU is literally in charge of counting the votes...

Are the SEIU technicians actually in charge of tabulating the votes, or is there a Clark County official in charge?
Are there any reports besides the accounts of "several" Sharron Angle voters?
As soon as there's some actual news, please report back.

 

[Uhtrinity]

There are many on this board that have said there are potential voting machine issues. Now that it may affect an (R) some of the conservatives are voicing concern.

It was a mistake allowing insecure machines without a paper trail to be used. How about we scrap this experiment and move back to proven scantronic equipment until a secure solution comes along.

 

[CallMeJoe]

There are many on this board that have said there are potential voting machine issues. Now that it may affect an (R) some of the conservatives are voicing concern.

It was a mistake allowing insecure machines without a paper trail to be used. How about we scrap this experiment and move back to proven scantronic equipment until a secure solution comes along.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Any voting system that does not leave a paper trail is suspect. The fact that the machines can repeat the same suspect figures in a "recount" tells us nothing about the integrity of the system.

 

[Scotteq]

There are many on this board that have said there are potential voting machine issues. Now that it may affect an (R) some of the conservatives are voicing concern...

I'd voice concern if it were affecting (D) too.


But thank you for your kind wisdumb.

 

[Uhtrinity]

I'd voice concern if it were affecting (D) too.

Sadly issues like this get ignored until it affects 'your' side. Otherwise it is brushed off as conspiracy. As a side effect it undermines confidence in our election system.

 

[Scotteq]

Actually I'm far more inclined to believe people are making judgements based on what they believe are the various posters' party affiliations; and then using that half ass'd judgment to make snarky attacks by implying these individuals wouldn't say anything if the (D) were an (R).

 

[Uhtrinity]

Actually I'm far more inclined to believe people are making judgements based on what they believe are the various posters' party affiliations; and then using that half ass'd judgment to make snarky attacks by implying these individuals wouldn't say anything if the (D) were an (R).

I'm not attacking any particular person. But there are quite a few on this board who have treated this as yet another conspiracy ... that is until it affects their candidates. Just do a search, you will find threads dating back to the 2002 and 2004 elections. In those threads you will see people who are still posting today.

 

[Scotteq]

Fair enough: Point made.

But clearly "Case By Case Basis" applies?

 

[werepossum]

Are the SEIU technicians actually in charge of tabulating the votes, or is there a Clark County official in charge?
Are there any reports besides the accounts of "several" Sharron Angle voters?
As soon as there's some actual news, please report back.

I'm sure an official is in charge of officially tabulating the votes returned by the machines. The SEIU technicians are in charge of the machines themselves. If the machines are not recording accurately the actual votes, then the official will not be tabulating the actual votes.

And no, to date no Reid voters have complained that the machines switched their Reid votes to Reid votes. I would have thought that went without saying, but apparently not.

 

[soundforbjt]

I'm waiting for the "scary" picture of the New Black Panther guys to be used again by the right after the election.

Funny how no one on the right complained about the Diebold machines in Ohio in 04 dubbya election...oh, that's right their guy won.

 

[Scotteq]

...weren't we just discussing that??


NVM...

 

[Craig234]

Funny enough, if the right were going to have corrupt voting machines in their favor, putting out this story now that Dems will would be very good propaganda.

That's the best way to diffuse the issue against them - turn it into 'oh, now the Dems are saying it back' getting people to dismiss it, since they attacked first.

Doesn't mean the Repubs are going to, but it's good to understand how the propaganda works if they were going to do it.

 

[Scotteq]

Ah yes... "The Old Hack The Voting Machines So The Other Guys Win" trick...


Shall we now Google pictures of Maxwell Smart?

 

[CallMeJoe]

...And no, to date no Reid voters have complained that the machines switched their Reid votes to Reid votes. I would have thought that went without saying, but apparently not.

I was thinking perhaps a large number of reports (as opposed to "several"), or verification by an independent source, such as a poll worker who observed the shenanigans.

There's also the possibility of a Reid supporter reporting his vote preselected or erroneously recorded on a different office or ballot issue...

 

[werepossum]

I was thinking perhaps a large number of reports (as opposed to "several"), or verification by an independent source, such as a poll worker who observed the shenanigans.

There's also the possibility of a Reid supporter reporting his vote preselected or erroneously recorded on a different office or ballot issue...

There are those possibilities. I guess we will see. Having 250 votes and 400 signed-in voters seems like a pretty big red flag to me as well.

For myself, I'm predicting yet another come-from-behind Reid victory. I always wondered how he does those. Now, I don't wonder.

 

[CallMeJoe]

There are those possibilities. I guess we will see. Having 250 votes and 400 signed-in voters seems like a pretty big red flag to me as well.

Agreed, if true. Other than Mr. Tyson's comment, is there any confirmation of this?

For myself, I'm predicting yet another come-from-behind Reid victory. I always wondered how he does those. Now, I don't wonder.

Sharron Angle's nomination might have something to do with it this time. In an election cycle when any competent candidate could easily have cleaned Senator Reid's clock, the Tea Party helped the Republicans nominate the only prominent Nevada politician who could conceivably lose that contest.

 

[werepossum]

Agreed, if true. Other than Mr. Tyson's comment, is there any confirmation of this?
Sharron Angle's nomination might have something to do with it this time. In an election cycle when any competent candidate could easily have cleaned Senator Reid's clock, the Tea Party helped the Republicans nominate the only prominent Nevada politician who could conceivably lose that contest.

Not that I know of.

It amazes me too that in a year with such a Republican landslide, the Pubbies have managed to field so many weak candidates. I think the establishment Republicans assumed that the Tea Party crowd would follow them; instead they've overwhelmed the establishment Republicans, and not always with good results.

 

[Scotteq]

Not that I know of.

It amazes me too that in a year with such a Republican landslide, the Pubbies have managed to field so many weak candidates. I think the establishment Republicans assumed that the Tea Party crowd would follow them; instead they've overwhelmed the establishment Republicans, and not always with good results.

Heh - "The Enemy of my Enemy is....





Damn.... :awe::awe:

 

[zinfamous]

Typical. It's ok to lie, cheat and screw people out of their vote as long as you get it your way.
You'd all be hopping mad and calling the system racist if it was the other way around.

I was unaware that a political party was a race.

:hmm:

 

[IBMer]

Honestly does anyone that has ever worked in IT support believe this isn't a user issue?

 

[Drako]

Honestly does anyone that has ever worked in IT support believe this isn't a user issue?

If by user, you mean programmer, then yes .

 

[Lanyap]

When Obama won we heard barely a peep out of the left about voting irregularities. The way the coming election is looking I'll bet we'll hear a lot out of them this time. Just saying.

 

[werepossum]

Heh - "The Enemy of my Enemy is....





Damn.... :awe::awe:

Pretty much. In many cases the Republican establishment is actively supporting the Democrat establishment candidates they until recently said were the Devil's spawn come to turn us from the light, and the Democrat establishment candidates are accepting and even courting the support of the Republican establishment candidates they until recently said were Satan's minions marching to drag us all down to Hell. Of course, from the Republican establishment candidates' point of view, sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my enemy too, before he was my friend. Or maybe after he was my friend . . . Nope, that thought has evaporated beyond cohesiveness, sorry.