Just voted in NC. The way the machines are set up if you vote the straight party ticket, YOU DON’T VOTE FOR PRESIDENT. you have to make a separate selection for president. What moron set it up that way?
Up until the 2010 election, the Democrats have had control of state government since Reconstruction. We did have a couple of Republican governors and a couple of years that the Republicans had control of the state HOR,but you can be sure that the design of the ballot was one of the Democrats dirty tricks to try to influence the vote for POTUS. I never vote a straight party ticket because there are some Democrats (such as our local Sheriff who is a fine Christian man that I have known most of my life) that I do vote for. In addition, a straight party ticket prevents you from voting for judges since several years ago it was decided that these races should be "nonpartisan" so that judges could be more impartial. In truth, it was because the Democrats were getting shut out in those elections because the voters knew that Republican judges (John Roberts not withstanding) were less likely to be liberal and to legislate from the bench. Now, I have to research what judges are being supported by the Tea Party or the Republican Party so I will know for whom to vote.
BTW, I got an email earlier today from a friend whose cousin voted in Guilford County and experienced what is being described in the article. It has been in the news lately and the problem supposedly has been corrected. This lady claimed that these voting machines came from China and were provided by George Soros to be pre-programed to vote for Obama for POTUS. Even though the problem has supposedly been fixed, this lady was still worried that it might be some diabolical plot to allow Obama to win no matter for whom the actual votes were cast.