Posted on 11/07/2006 8:37:10 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Vote machines crash in Ohio
35 minutes ago
Early trouble with crashing electronic voting machines sparked immediate problems in some areas as US elections again went ahead amid fears of delays and polling irregularities.
In one elementary school in the predominantly black district of East Cleveland, Ohio, all 12 machines went down when voting opened at 6:30 am (1130 GMT), according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.
The machines were not started up until two hours later and poll officials refused to hand out paper ballots until a lawyer for the watchdog group Election Protection showed up.
"The machines weren't working and they were just turning people away," said the attorney, Fred Livingstone. "They are not allowed to do that."
More than 250 problems were reported at polling places in Ohio soon after polls opened according to an Election Protection watchdog operation run by a minority rights group and other non-governmental organizations.
Ohio was the epicenter of controversy during the 2004 elections, as Democrats charged voter fraud incidents disproportionately helped Republicans.
Democrats Tuesday hoped a strong countrywide showing would help them break the Republican hold on Congress and punish President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq.
In one polling station in Friendship Heights, Maryland just outside Washington, one of the 16 voting machines on offer failed as soon as the polls opened.
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electile dysfunction?
The F****G libs run these precincts. I will guarantee you 1000% that they purposely caused this to happen.
Gee, how'd he get there so quickly?/sarc
Were they logged in?
I don't understand why these things break down? Are they not tested beforehand?
was Karl Rove in the area when this occurred?
So the officials allowed themselves to be held hostage by a leftwing front group? WTF?
I agree.
Well, they have to have SOMETHING for all those lawyers they hired to do, otherwise the Dems would just end up looking stupid. Oh, wait...
Now that is funny.
Here come the lawsuits and legal challenges. They can't win legally so the left will try to steal the election, again.
User error? Laziness? Starbucks was slow? Dem election judge knows that R voters vote early?
It is Rove and Bush's fault.
Sigh. I predicted this last night. Notice who's shrieking. Where are their "leaders" to insure that this didn't happen?
Were they plugged in?
I wonder if someone tampered with them and they have some sort of a fail-safe device that like a pinball machine says "Tilt!"
Dems/commies can screw up a wet dream. Should round them all up & find out which ones as supposedly dead.
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