Among the many worries facing the nation this Election Day, voting machines certainly rank high. Even during the primary season, there were claims that Sen. Hillary Clinton's numbers received a boost in "Diebold Districts," or voting centers that utilized the machines.
Today, voting rights advocate Brad Friedman at The Brad Blog brought to everyone's attention that ES&S iVotronic touch-screen voting machines are flipping votes away from Democratic candidates in four states. The votes, incidentally, are not flipping to Ringo Starr.
Gizmodo is also reporting that certain voting machines in West Virginia are simply not letting people vote for Barack Obama. Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright demonstrates:
B. Brandon Barker is the author of the novel Operation EMU.
B. Brandon Barker's writing has appeared in Global City Review, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Martin's Press), Verbicide, The Feed and online at McSweeney's. He's also the author of the novel Operation Emu. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he was born in England, raised in Arkansas and now lives in Virginia.
Maybe the voting machine makers don't want higher taxes.
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misty
5:18PM Oct 29th 2008
I want to hear that when you try to vote for a democrat, a cup of coffee is dispensed which drips the exact amount of moisture into the system to void that vote.
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misty
5:22PM Oct 29th 2008
I heard when you push the button to vote for a democrat a mules heee haaaa's plays and a bucket of water spills on your head.
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brits4life
5:24PM Oct 29th 2008
ALL AMERICANS A RACISTS
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nick
5:25PM Oct 29th 2008
c'mon now, you know as well as I do that's not the reason.
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brits4life
5:25PM Oct 29th 2008
ALL AMERICANS ARE RACISTS
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brits4life
5:26PM Oct 29th 2008
ALL AMERICANS ARE RACISTS
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brits4life
5:28PM Oct 29th 2008
RACISTS PIGS
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misty
5:29PM Oct 29th 2008
Democrat's claim when they try to vote on the newest voting machines the button to select the democratic candidates is a shock mechinism, which causes a reflex motion that jerks the hand just enough to push the republican button.
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misty
5:34PM Oct 29th 2008
To brits4life:
What is it you're trying to say?
Sounds like you spent some time at Jeremiah Wright Trinity United Church.
I heard there's a voting machine that can be used to deprograms democrats ...all you have to do is push the right button.
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lewby54
5:34PM Oct 29th 2008
CHOOSE, MABUS OR OBAMA. MCCAIN, IS A PETTY PETTY MAN WITH NO VISION FOR AMERICA. HE IS A DINOSAUR, OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY.HE FAILS ON JUDGEMENT. LOOK AT PALIN, HIS FIRST COMMAND DECISION. HE IS CERTAIN TO BRING ABOUT ARMEGEDDON IN OUR LIFETIME. ENOUGH OF THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH FROM THE BOTTOM UP! OUR CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE, NOT CANNON FODDER.
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misty
5:37PM Oct 29th 2008
To butthole4life:
Hater ... Hater .. Masterba..er . Have I told you about that voting machine?
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misty
5:45PM Oct 29th 2008
To lewdby54:
Palin has been a breath of fresh air. She is competent; she is honest; she is hard working; she embodies the spirit of America.
The media as disparraging as they have been, haven't been successful in their non stop barrage. She's not a kiss ass and they can't take it! The crowds love her SARAH SARAH SARAH USA USA USA SARAH USA SARAH
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lewby54
6:00PM Oct 29th 2008
TO MISTY, AND I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM MY HOUSE!
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misty
6:08PM Oct 29th 2008
To Kathy:
For one thing he's hiding Vera Baker in Martinique...courtesy of the outraged Michelle Obama. Word is Michelle originally became suspicious when she found out Vera was getting paid $50,000.00 for being a financial manager .... ooops already had a financial manager. Vera was shipped off to NY, but that wasn't far enough for Michelle... and now the lovely and lonely Vera hides out in Martinique.
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misty
6:09PM Oct 29th 2008
To lewdby54:
Where do you live ... New York City? Get a map!
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TJ, THE CLINTONITE
6:17PM Oct 29th 2008
WHAT I FIND MOST INTRIGUING IS HOW ABC HAS BEEN PROMOTING OBAMA LIKE WHORES. THEY ATTACK GOV PALIN AN AVERAGE OF FOUR TIMES A DAY. OBAMA NEVER BOUGHT AN AD WITH THEM.. I GUESS OBAMA WEALTH DISTRIBUTION WENT BY ABC AND STEPHANOPOLOUS. HA HA HA
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misty
6:34PM Oct 29th 2008
Obama has a half a billion dollars ... I believe in public financing ... whoops, how much? .... no, I don't believe in public financing.
Obama doesn't require the name on the credit match the number ... one woman complained because $174,800 was fraudently charged to her credit card in different names over and over to donate to the Obama campaign.
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JVZaccaro
6:39PM Oct 29th 2008
Registration fraud (ACORN), cross state registering and voting the same day, voting machine fraud or malfunctions, prisoners voting illegally, these are all situations that cause voters to question whether their votes have any meaning. Regardless of Party or candidate, worker and voter turmoil and unrest is directly taken from the 1970's SDS/TDU playbook.
When will we wake up and realize what is happening? Bill Ayres, Saul Alinsky, Bernadine Dorhn, Alan Haber, Tom Hayden, Ken Paff, Michael Harrington and Irving Howe were not able to bring the country to its knees, thirty years ago. But they are still around, still attempting to CHANGE America. Incredibly, they continue to use a political and economic model that failed every time it was implemented. Always demanding more, always blaming the “greedy establishment” and the government for events ranging from global warming to hurricanes!
Their goal is simple. They do not want to solve problems, they want to create national unrest. And, with their friend, Barack Obama, they have a willing participant. These people do not want to CHANGE the free market, capitalist system in America, they want to destroy it! The American form of democracy, with all its faults, has been the most successful social experiment in history!
In 1957, Fidel Castro was a revolutionary. He and other “freedom fighters” overthrew the corrupt regime of General Fulgencio Batista. As you may remember, Batisata’s Cuba was prosperous and non-threatening to the US.
In 1959, after the Revolution, Castro began his plan to build a “New Cuba.” Fifty years later, Cuba is poor, lacking any meaningful infrastructure and still controlled by the Castro brothers.
Ask expatriate Cubans if a government controlled “command economy” was good for Cuba? They are easy to find. They are now successful business people in Miami! What does Cuba have to show for the Revolution, hundreds of 1953 Chevys! Some progress! If you still have doubts, look to see which direction the refugee boats are headed between Cuba and Miami?
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kathy
8:48PM Oct 29th 2008
NOT VOTING IS A VOTE FOR OBAMA VOTING FOR NADER IS A VOTE FOR OBAMA TALK TO YOUNG VOTERS. THEY'RE BEING BRAINWASHED IN COLLEGES.PROTECT YOUR COUNTRY. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL OBAMA IS HIDING.