Attn. Nevada Voters: Carefully Proof-Reid Your Ballot Before Submitting; Update: Voting Machine Techs are SEIU
**Written by Doug Powers
Actually, double-checking is a good idea no matter where you are, but in Nevada there seems to be some reason to be extra attentive:
LAS VEGAS — Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County’s electronic voting machines.
Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid’s name was already checked.
Ferrara said she wasn’t alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.
“Something’s not right,” Ferrara said. “One person that’s a fluke. Two, that’s strange. But several within a five minute period of time — that’s wrong.”
Yep, the screens were already filled in — something like this:
[X] Man who single-handedly saved the world from another great depression
[ ] Palinista with extreme and dangerous ideas
But that’s not all. There’s already been a problem in North Carolina as well:
A Craven County voter says he had a near miss at the polls on Thursday when an electronic voting machine completed his straight-party ticket for the opposite of what he intended.
Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said. Then he asked for and received help from election staff.
“They pushed it twice and the same thing happened,” Laughinghouse said. “That was four times in a row. The fifth time they pushed it and the Republicans came up and I voted.”
So that’s four votes for the Democrats and one for the Republicans. Just kidding… I think… maybe not.
So far the electronic voting machine anomalies seem to be favoring the Democrats. Normally I prefer my coincidences to seem a little more coincidental.
So there are just a couple more examples to add to the list.
Update:
Just another coincidence in Nevada?
Now there’s absolutely no independently verified evidence of chicanery with the voting machines (yet), but it is worth noting that the voting machine technicians in Clark County are members of the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU spent $63 million in elections in 2008 and is planning on spending $44 million more this election cycle — nearly all of that on Democrats. White House political director Patrick Gaspard is formerly the SEIU’s top lobbyist, and former SEIU president Andy Stern was the most frequent vistor to the White House last year.
True, this is evidence of nothing, but there would be well beyond raised eyebrows if there were “voting irregularities” that favored Republicans and the techs on those machines were from the Chamber of Commerce and Fox News.
(h/t Drudge)
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Great pic. A Lefty loon lawyer counting chads in Florida from the 2000 election as I recall. “Let no election go unstolen.”
Somebody call the FBI! Voter fraud is the new end game. It’s easier to vote now more than ever. Easier to cheat as well.
Re pic: ” I can’t believe Al Franken is on this ballot!”
I expect prosecutions next year resulting from fraud in these elections. Democrats demonstrate an astonishing degree of hubris in their criminal escapades. It will take a while but if enough of them are put in the slammer they will get the idea it is wrong to tamper with elections. But the law has got to be enforced…
I’m guessing that these “Democrat Enhancing Events” haven’t made the lsm yet.
No matter. The left will be able to find ballots in car trunks, lockers, and elsewhere after the election is over.
Of course, guarantees that America’s military will be able to receive an absentee ballot in time for the election is too difficult. Sorry.
Voter fraud isn’t new, just ask anyone from Chicago, its just going viral, nationally. Easy to cheat when those who monitor, discover, enforce and prosecute generally go deaf, dumb, and blind when it comes to Democrat malfeasance.
As Benjamin Franklin once said IIRC, “Nothing is certain except death, taxes and Democrat election fraud.”
That’s assuming that these “anamolies” dont give us the surprise results that Axelrod hinted to.
Rasmussen’s latest poll: Angle 49% Reid’s 45% HERE
Yes, I’m sure they will be investigated and prosecuted with all the fervor that the NBBP voter intimidation case was.
/barf
I was aghast when I first heard about computerized voting machines. They are a horrifyingly stupid idea, as anyone who knows anything about computers (which should be just about everybody by now) should be able to tell you.
Ballots should be marked. They should be hard ballots any third grader could count.
Can things go wrong with that? Can people commit fraud? Of course.
But anything you can do wrong with paper and pen, you can do wrong much, much Bigger and Better with a computer.
Sadly, you can’t fix stupid. So here comes computer voting.
Well, possibly the whistleblowers.
How dare they uncover a standard Dem operating procedure.
I vote by paper ballot in Virginia.
After multiple fiascoes around the nation involving electronic voting Virginians said “enough is enough” and demanded the option to vote by paper ballots to produce an audit trail.
Looks like everyone else will need to choose the paper ballot option…
They’re just trying to make voting more convenient. No need to actually do anything to cast your vote for a Dem. That’s the default vote for all registered voters, unless you choose otherwise.
Make sure you vote for the Republican Secretary of State in your state!!!
Also the State Attorney General.
Yes, sorry to be a broken record, but its important IMHO.
This is to assist the dead voters to make sure their vote counts.
It has to do with how the application is coded. If the engineer is a libtard socialist, guess what bias goes into the code?
You can code it so that the…ahem…”anomolies” don’t go into effect until after the code is in production. You can do that by date, by number of uses, just about any way you want. You can code it so it only does it’s “magic” for every 10th voter.
It’s all very easy to do and it can be difficult to detect. Even if you have someone go over every line of code. Remember, if the person doing the QA on the code is also a libtard socialist, guess what doesn’t get flagged?
Electronic voting should be abolished.
Quite true, Congressional Democrats devised a plan to pass bills without actually voting on the bills passage, so Dems can certainly devise a plan to win elections without the messy problem of voters actually needing to cast votes for them. Looks like the plan is in operation.
Abso-freakin’-lutely! If we do not win BIG next Tuesday, then all bets are off. This is absolutely sickening.
Keep your eyes open, your i-Phones handy and VOTE!
I don’t have a problem using computers to mark ballots. But, they should spit out a paper ballot with your choices that you sign. And the count should be based on those paper ballots, not an electronic record.
no contest should be certified until every military vote has been counted, or accounted for,plan and simple…if that’s the law you can bet ever military vote would be counted.
Casting and counting military votes falls into the hands of the competent, private enterprise.
I’d love to see the democrats try to spin a law like this! First, they’d have to try to find a reason for voting against it. Then they’d be forced into voting for it anyway because otherwise, they’d look pretty bad. And I’d love to see which moron would sue to find it unconstitutional!
This would be rich!
Sorry, the Dems just won’t allow that to happen.
The next two years of large majorities of rep state houses should be to clarify and fix our election systems. The last decade saw a run on voting techniques and laws which have given voter fraud a new life. If Iraq can have an election with low fraud, except for the count of course, then why can’t we?
The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin
The dems have learned their lesson well.
RE: pic
‘That’s the cost of an anal massage these days?!’
I fail to see how so many conservatives have had this concept in their heads that November was some sort of slam dunk.
Is it finally starting to become clear as to how the traitors are going to remain in power?
This is simply a trick by Bush to make it seem like Dems are copying Stalin.
I don’t suppose any of these people who experienced pro-Dem irregularities were carrying camera-phones? That would speak a thousand words!
BTW, I recommend that anyone mailing in absentee ballots – scan them into your computer first!
It’s nice to live in a county run by conservative Republicans. Went to vote, nobody had used my registration yet, none of the candidates were pre-selected, nobody electioneering or waving nightsticks, polite, friendly people in line, and I know my vote will be counted as cast. Life is good.
Is “Laughinghouse” a real name?!
And it looks like conservatives haven’t. We still are relying on leftists to play fair.
Addendum: I did see one man several spots ahead of me use an expired voter registration card. They took it, instructed him to contact the County Clerk to have a new card issued, and then let him vote. However, I noticed as they were processing mine that they had marked his entry for further investigation.
Talk about timing…The 9th circus court of appeals just overturned AZ photo ID to vote law.
We can’t afford the permanent ink for voters to dip their fingers.
/sarc off
Not quite sure how that would help. Sure you had proof of how you voted, but the Dems would still throw it out because it was not received or post marked in time.
Either drop it off in person (and ask for a receipt) or mail it with signature conformation. At least this way you can prove that someone took possesion of your ballot.
It’s almost like all these changes were designed to increase the likelihood and scale of voter fraud. It almost makes me wonder what were they thinking…
I’m in OK but I’ll surely be looking closely at my ballot when it’s handed to me!!!
The Dems screamed that Dioebold would steal elections for the GOP years ago. Yet, it is almost always the Dems trying to steal elections so they can stay in power.
My son asked if there was only some way to check to see if your electronic vote machine vote was actually tallied? Right now there’s NOTHING to prove your vote was counted. So we kicked it around a little and here’s an idea to consider..
Suppose you have at every polling place using electronic voting machines a totally independent machine, (not linked in to anything), that issues a small paper card with a bar code on it. This bar code has your voting precinct and a UNIQUE randomly selected number on it, (say 12 or more digits). The number is NOT associated with your name in anyway. The number is also printed in text under the bar code, (like UPC codes for example). The card is dispensed upside down – nobody can see the bar code or number but you.
So you take this card and slide it into the electronic voting machine to activate it. The voting machine records that bar code number and precinct information along with your votes. (If another card is later used with that same number – the sirens go off!) It also prints a record of how you voted on that same card which you then take home with you.
The government can now display on-line every electronic precinct with a list of each unique voter activation number and the votes associated with that number allowing every voter to go to the site and verify that their actual vote was recorded properly without anyone knowing who they are.
This puts verifiable physical forensic evidence in the hands of every single voter who is forced to use electronic voting. It would make it extremely risky for fraudsters to flip your vote after the polls close because any voter would be able to check their vote online.
If the online information doesn’t match your card – you call your AG’s office.
If the AG gets more than a few calls and verifies that many votes were altered – the fraud is stopped in its tracks.
I’ll go you one better – not ‘almost like’ – I think they were designed with the intention of fraud in mind. There is currently no way to verify an electronic vote. Once you push the button your vote no longer exists in the real (physical) world. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain …
Basil Fawlty: Everything’s bottoms with you people, isn’t it?
Pelosi keeps saying she isn’t going to lose her job…….
The early voting places in my area use electronic touch screen voting but my local precinct uses paper ballots that you feed into an electronic counter.
I prefer the paper trail, so I always vote on the day of the election in my precinct. The machine displays a voter count, so I take note of this and verify that it increments after feeding in my ballot.
I really do not see the need for all of this early voting business and I really do not see any need for mail in ballots except for military personnel. If you are out of town on election day or in the hospital you miss your chance to vote. I do not see that as being a problem. Every Election day should be a national holiday so that everyone can vote. This would eliminate the need for all of these new voting techniques, thus eliminate a lot of fraud.
Voting Day Holiday…please.
What is Jimmy Carter doing these days?
Doesn’t he know that the election season has opened in our country?
Doesn’t he play neutral observer in the 3rd world countries?
Is he not umpiring because we are not a 3rd world country yet?
Not yet. I think he’s still hanging in there until he’s satisfied we’ve become one.
There will always be some level of voter fraud in both major parties. It seems, on an anecdotal level, that the Democrat Party enjoys a much greater benefit from voter fraud than does the Republicans (and in stating that, I’m not advocating Republican voter fraud).
As a Constitutional Conservative, I demand and expect a fair and just voting process. I don’t think that I speak only for myself in saying what will happen if Democrats continue to be elected due to perceived voter fraud. It won’t be pretty.
We could always bring in Jimmuh Cahtuh and his cabal of election overseers…
Read John Fund’s book “Stealing Elections”; you will be appalled.
The Democrat Party has managed to legalize organized crime.
I voted yesterday after work, as promised. I didn’t note any irregularities. I used a Diebold touch-screen machine that printed a paper record of my votes, which I verfied correct before “submitting” my ballot.
I recall that the libtards screamed the loudest when electronic balloting was introduced, claiming Diebold was in the control of Republicans etc.
I think it was just a ruse, and opened the doors for even more Democrat fraud than we usually have.
I mean, why is it that all the vote fraud benefits Democrats?
Because it appears to be the only way they can ensure victory and stay in and gain even more political control, at least in the environment of this election cycle.
I would rather stand up and have my vote recorded publicly than have my vote stolen or nullified. In Iraq they have proud, purple-fingered voters; Here, sleazy backroom machinations. Who is more backward?