2008 “This doesn’t happen in America—maybe Ohio, but not in America!”
posted by on October 20 at 10:55 AM
This clip from The Simpsons…
…got it wrong. This happens—it’s happening—but in West Virginia.
Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk’s office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.“When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain,” said Matheney, who lives in Kenna. When she reported the problem, she said, the poll worker in charge “responded that everything was all right. It was just that the screen was sensitive and I was touching the screen too hard. She instructed me to use only my fingernail.”
Even after she began using her fingernail, Matheney said, the problem persisted.
How’s that piece on liberal paranoia about Republicans stealing the election coming along, Eli?
Yikes. See the upcoming Stranger for this scenario graded on a helpful terror alert scale...
QUICK, TURN OFF YOUR BRAINS!!! CONSPIRACY! THEATRICS! EMOTIONS! ESTROGEN!
QUICK, TERN OFF YER BRAINS! ANTI-CHRIST! MUSLIM! TERRORISTS! I-RACK! I-RANISTAN! QUEERS! JEWS! PENIS ENVY!
Time to LOCK and LOAD!
Democracy has a price.
Proof Positive that the Democrats are, in fact, committing mass voter fraud:
http://tinyurl.com/53ylsb
Paranoia is irrational. Fear, at this point, is completely rational.
plenty of time to send in a legal team and force them to use paper ballots
Step 1. Go to a poll worker, demand a paper ballot.
Step 2. Hire a lawyer and SUE THE FUCK out of your county.
Step 3. Democracy!
If you're not paranoid you're not paying attention.
i am with #9.
i really like that homer voted for obama.
The biggest threat to your ballots isn't Republican conspiracy, it's stupid and incompetent election officials. I don't believe this episode is part of a wider conspiracy to change Dem votes to GOP ones; I think it's part of a wider conspiracy to rely on piece-of-shit voting machines that nobody knows how to maintain properly. If our voting system is ever compromised on a wide scale, it won't be by Diebold or the Republicans; it will be by Russian mafia spam gangs, because we're too stupid to secure our systems.
Step 4. ???
Step 5. Profit!
@7 for the win.
@13:
Step 4: Degregulation
Step 5: Profit
Step 6: Clusterfuck
Step 7: ?!?!
Step 8: PROFIT!
Sadly, concerns about electronic voting machines are not paranoia. It is very possible for this technology to be abused, as has been shown repeatedly by researchers, notably Princeton's Ed Felton [youtube].
Whether it is being abused, I don't know --- it's easy for speculation slip into tinfoil hat territory --- but everyone should be seriously concerned about this problem.
If it's just a simple "computer error", as fnarf argues, shouldn't such errors be split about 50/50 rather than favoring republicans? And the fact that the CEOs of the companies that make the majority of voting machines are republican should be of no concern to us?
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/presskit.html
http://stealingamericathemovie.org/multiple.html
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
It's funny that the guy who doesn't know who Greg Palast is is writing an article on stolen elections.
Maybe the electoral college and/or supreme court is overriding the votes right there at the video voting booth?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
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