[LINK] Us voting machines

Adam Todd link at todd.inoz.com
Wed Nov 8 10:40:34 AEDT 2006


Don't worry Jan, there will be a big fight which will get taken to the 
Supreme Court and someone will be "ordered" into the role of Public Office.

It doesn't matter what the paper says, or whether the machines work.

At 09:05 AM 8/11/2006, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> From Cnn.com
>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/voting.problems.ap/index.html
>
>(AP) -- Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting 
>machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday, 
>delaying voters in Indiana, Ohio and Florida and leaving some with little 
>choice but to use paper ballots instead.
>
>In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with 
>new touchscreen machines that they couldn't get to start properly until 
>about 10 minutes after polls opened.
>
>"We got five machines -- one of them's got to work," said Willette 
>Scullank, a troubleshooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.
>
>In Indiana's Marion County, about 175 of 914 precincts turned to paper 
>ballots because poll workers didn't know how to run the machines, said 
>Marion County Clerk Doris Ann Sadler. She said it could take most of the 
>day to fix all of the machine-related issues.
>[snip]
>
>Jan (from Terre Haute in the Hoosier state where Marion County is the 
>location of the state capital, Indianapolis)
>
>
>Jan Whitaker
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