As a Chicago native, I am often faced with references to dead people voting and rigged elections. Unfortunately, having grown up under the original Daley machine, they are largely true. My parents helped found the Independent Voter movement and documented some unbelievable cases of fraud. I recall on precinct where the captain actually produced more votes than registered voters. In one percent where I was an observer, a voter discovered that her dead husband had voted before her. For that reason, the controversy with voting machines this week could not have come at a worse time or place — particularly with polls showing the Democrats approaching what could be a disaster. When Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to cast his vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library, he experienced a Homer Simpson moment when every time he tried to pick his name, the machine registered the vote for his Democratic opponent.
As Homer said, “this type of thing doesn’t happen in America . . . maybe Ohio but not America.”
Moynihan issued a warning for Republicans not to trust the machines and “Be careful when you vote in Illinois. Make sure you take the time to check your votes before submitting.”
Cook County Board of Elections Deputy Communications Director Jim Scalzitti insisted that this is not a return to “Cooked County” and that this was merely “a calibration error of the touch-screen on the machine.”
Source: The Week
I just don’t understand nick, what your garbage has to do with being civil here.
Jim 22, Texas has a very low rate of voter participation, and it is particularly low among the hispanic population. Would it not be better to encourage involvement in the process rather than discourage it? Don’t think illegals are really that interested in voting.
SWM, I said at least a couple times I did not agree w/ what Squeeky was saying and pointed out other places of disagreement. But, being a libertarian, I have no compulsion to tell her what she can think or say. I LOVE the archives here because they provide a record of all the hurtful things people have said over the years. Sunshine is a non partisan disinfectant. It cleanses intolerant opinions from both the left and right.
Yes I know SWM, I guess the disgust level just gets reached at some point or another and good commenters end up leaving. I just checked over on that thread and David was just mentioning something about “ingesting feces”. I think I’ll just stay away from that very polluted ugly thread.
swarthmoremom – “Annie, How many on the right confronted Squeeky on the language she used to describe gay people on that thread? What happened?We ended losing another good liberal poster.”
From what I remember reading, she was just describing what they do. Was she name calling?
Can the machines used to count votes in the US presidential election be trusted?
“This is probably not an organised attempt to defraud voters, according to Wallach: “If the machines were maliciously flipping candidates, you wouldn’t be seeing it on screen, it would be happening silently behind the display. It’s most likely poor programming, user confusion and calibration errors.”
When mass voting starts, more such bugs are bound to emerge. During the presidential primary elections earlier this year, thousands of votes were erroneously switched or lost entirely when software and hardware errors affected machines from South Carolina and Florida to Ohio and even Washington DC”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/nov/03/us-election-polling-machines-obama-mccain
Franken will win easily, and there won’t be any fraud. Minnesota is known to be very clean politically.
Hahahahahaha…..Oh? You were serious? Bwhahahahaha.
Don’t know if someone already linked to Prof’s other column when the opposite happened: http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/19/this-cant-happen-in-america-ohio-maybe-but-not-america/
and this re machines and changing a vote: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081029/0131342676.shtml
This appears to be not corruption/fraud but the issue with the machines.
swarthmoremom – “jim22, Texas law allows concealed carry permits but not student id’s. Why is that?”
I don’t have the expertise on both forms of ID so I can’t really say. But, if I had to guess I would assume getting a concealed carry permit has a lot better check than just a student ID does. How easy is it for an illegal alien to get a student ID? How easy is it for an illegal alien to get a carry permit?
Annie, How many on the right confronted Squeeky on the language she used to describe gay people on that thread? What happened?We ended losing another good liberal poster.
I heard the garbage truck a few minutes ago.
As I was told last evening by a Darren, why do people have to attack other people for voicing an opinion. I just don’t understand why such rants and taunts are necessary. They are very disruptive to the flow of ideas. Most children should be in school now. I heard the school bus go down the road almost 3 and a half hours ago.
bc,
I agree we should stick to paper ballots only.
Yesterday was much more substantive, just sayn’.
*Are STILL used*
SWM, those slurs that used to describe the groups you mentioned, never seem to be addressed by those on the right. Either they agree with them and join in or they are afraid of lash back and don’t speak up. We’ve seen it over and over again. So right, that is how the threads….. whoosh away!
rafflaw, I am going to go through the archives some rainy day and compile a list of Rafflawisms. I just bookmarked your 10:51 comment for that “Best of” list.
Voter Fraud Knows NO Party affiliation.
I am encouraged to see such concern about the integrity of voting machines from our conservative commentators. Perhaps this is something we can all agree on. We need paper ballots, or at the very least, open source voting software running on these machines.
Or would this be unwanted market interference that might hinder the voting machine job creators?
“Sociopath, knuckle dragger, liar, stupid, homophobe, racist, sexist, idiot, wife beater, are just a FEW of the ad hominem attacks hurled @ me over the 2 plus years. It goes both ways, SWM. When you said I “attacked” feminism the other day you were patently wrong. I pointed out its flaws and challenged feminists to do better. That is NOT attacking. The aforementioned epithets are!!!