And in Chicago voting news:
While Chicago was having some logistical problems at polling places, there was one bright spot. Only one election judge reported for duty drunk. CBS 2′s Pam Zekman reports that is down from past years.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
And in Chicago voting news:
While Chicago was having some logistical problems at polling places, there was one bright spot. Only one election judge reported for duty drunk. CBS 2′s Pam Zekman reports that is down from past years.
In better election news this woman deserves a medal.
Oh man, that made me cry.
I am hearing some horror stories coming out of PA. This is just the most egregious:
A Pennsylvania electronic voting machine has been taken out of service after being captured on video changing a vote for President Obama into one for Mitt Romney, NBC News has confirmed. Republicans have also said machines have turned Romney votes into Obama ones.
I am hearing some horror stories coming out of PA. This is just the most egregious:
That's seriously scary. How the fuck can they fix that, to fix the votes already counted wrong, and do it in time?
This is just the most egregious:
I've been hearing this has happened to both sides, and that machine was mis-calibrated. Crossing my fingers that's all this is.
I'm more concerned about the OH official (Secretary of State?) putting in a last-minute, secret "experimental" software patch to OH voting machines. This was apparently illegal.
But who knows... maybe these things are related.
eta: The software patch is not in the voting machines themselves, but in the system that tabulates results.
I've also seen a ton on FB from people in PA who were turned away or pressured to fill out provisional ballots.
If Florida in 2000 was not enough to fix the way we do elections in this country, what will be enough?
Here's a story on the OH software patch:
Is Ohio voting software vulnerable to fraud? Court to hear Election Day case - CSMonitor.com
A federal lawsuit filed Monday in Columbus, Ohio, charges the secretary of state's office with illegally installing untested software on voting systems in dozens of counties – a step that creates a digital “back door,” which someone wishing to alter vote totals might be able to exploit.
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The suit alleges that the secretary of state's office used a legal loophole to install software on electronic voting systems in 39 counties across the state without having it checked by the Ohio Board of Voting Machine Examiners, the state's technical board charged with reviewing elections software. State officials say they have followed federal guidelines and that the equipment is secure.
Tommyrot: Hard evidence that one party deliberately planned to cheat prior to the election and then executed that plan on election day, in a way widespread enough to effect a federal election.
As an example, evidence that OH secretary had commissioned a software patch, then sat on it until the last minute, released it, and it was made in such a way to affect the presidential election...
CaBil, maybe I'm just too cynical but I feel even this won't change anything.