UPDATE: Another NC county reports repeated R to D vote flipping...
County GOP Chair Says: "They ain’t worth a damn, we ought to go back to paper ballots"
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."
"Something is not right here," (Craven County GOP Chair Chuck) Tyson told the Sun Journal. He said he "got two or three calls" from people describing the same problem while they were voting.
Earlier this week, it was reported that a touch-screen voting machine in Dallas, TX, was caught on video flipping a single vote for Rep. Governor Rick Perry to a straight slate for all the "Green Party" candiates.
In the video, shot by programmer Don Relyea and posted on YouTube , multiple attempts were made to cast one vote for Perry for Governer and one vote for each independent candidate for other offices. But the machine repeatedly changed the votes.
The video has since been set to "private,"presumably by Relyea, at YouTube a few hours ago. So, unfortunately (for now), we're unable to show the video itself, though we watched it several times this morning before it was made unavailable. The removal of the video, seemingly shot via a cell phone camera, may be due to Texas law barring recording equipment of any kind in polling places.
(More and more people are seeing that electronic voting machines :
1. Are prone to provide incorrect vote tabulations...
2. Can be easily hacked into by a tenth grader...
3. Are totally untrustworthy and totally unnecessary...And,
4. Give the entire election process the distinct ODOR of distrust because the machines (and not humans) do the counting without the accountability of a paper trail.
If we just "take it for granted" that these machines actually tally our precious votes correctly...
Then we are "taking for granted" our voice and our rights as well!
ELECTIONS ARE MUCH TOO IMPORTANT TO ALLOW EVEN THE POSSIBILITY OF MISTAKES OR CORRUPTION.
WE NEED PAPER BALLOTS...COUNTED IN FRONT OF THE PUBLIC ... AT THE POLLING PLACE WHERE CAST!
AND DON'T TELL ME THAT IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG OR THE COUNT COULD BE OFF. THERE ARE MANY MANY HONEST PEOPLE WHO WOULDN'T MIND STAYING UP LATE TO COUNT AND VERIFY. AND ANYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO WITNESS COUNTING!!
PERIOD!!
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