[LINK] US voting machines - problems already

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.kfdm.com/engine.pl? 
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Jefferson County Voters Continue To Raise Concerns About Voting Machines

> Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight  
> Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated  
> they had voted a straight Republican ticket.
> Some of those voters including Lamar University professor, Dr.  
> Bruce Drury, believe the problem is a programming error.
> Saturday, KFDM spoke to another voter who says it's not just  
> happening with straight ticket voting, he says it's happening on  
> individual races as well, Jerry Stopher told us when he voted for a  
> Democrat, the Republican's name was highlighted.
> Stopher said, "There's something in these machines, in this  
> equipment, that's showing Republican votes when you vote for  
> Democrats, and I know Ms. Guidry's a nice lady, and she's working  
> hard, but her theory that my fingernail was somehow over the  
> Republican button is just unrealistic, my fingernail was not. The  
> equipment is not working properly as far as I can tell."



On 2006/Nov/01, at 8:30 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

>
>> http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/15869924.htm? 
>> template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
>>
>>
>> Glitches cited in early voting
>> *Early voters are urged to cast their ballots with care following  
>> scattered reports of problems with heavily used machines.*
>> *BY CHARLES RABIN AND DARRAN SIMON*
>>
>> After a week of early voting, a handful of glitches with  
>> electronic voting machines have drawn the ire of voters,  
>> reassurances from elections supervisors -- and a caution against  
>> the careless casting of ballots.
>> ....
>> Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday at African-American  
>> Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale. Her  
>> vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look  
>> at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen for  
>> gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis, a Democrat, but the review  
>> screen repeatedly registered the Republican, Charlie Crist.
>>
>> That's exactly the kind of problem that sends conspiracy theorists  
>> into high gear -- especially in South Florida, where a history of  
>> problems at the polls have made voters particularly skittish...
>

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