Tech titans holding vast info on Americans know how that computer skullduggery works.
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Posted on 10/27/2018 12:20:09 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Voters are reporting odd problems on both the Republican and Democratic side of straight-party voting in Texas.
Mickey Blake was one of the voters in those early voting lines in Houston earlier this week.
"I hit straight Democratic ticket," Blake said.
She says she expected all Democrats to come up on her screen, especially Rep. Beto O'Rourke, but when she got to the last screen to review her choices, she noticed a problem.
"It's all Democratic except for Ted Cruz was checked," Blake said.
So she backed up and did it again. And again.
"I tried it a third time and the same thing happened," she said.
The same thing happened to Cordell Hosea in Fort Bend County.
"When I got to the end, I just so happened that I glanced at the screen, I saw Ted Cruz was selected as my senator," Hosea said.
He too voted straight ticket Democrat.
But it's not just a Democrat problem. Voters who select straight-party Republican unselect Sen. Cruz and wind up voting for no one. Either way, officials say it's a rare issue that happens, but not to everyone.
It's popped up across Texas often enough for the Secretary of State to put up a statewide advisory on Monday to every Texas election advisor.
The Secretary of State calls it 'operator error.'
"We've heard from voters over a number of elections about this," said Ft. Bend County Election Administrator John Oldham.
Oldham says it's a problem he's seen for years.
He even told the Secretary of State about it years ago and it's still happening.
"It's not a glitch, it's a user-induced problem that comes from the type of system that we have," Oldham said. "I think both sides could be equally hurt."
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Soros funded voting machines I’ll bet
The story is being set up for Beto the pretend Hispanic’s failure.
It is time to return to paper ballots!
If the count is off by just a few votes no problem but if it starts getting weird in the thousands then we will know something is off!
at the end of the election, you compare the electronic vote with the paper votes!
No one has thought of this???!!!
“...they should give you a paper receipt...”
Then you go outside and show your receipt to the guy with the money and you get paid for voting the “right” way.
My county is going back to paper ballots starting this year.
This story is psyops that even straight-voting Republicans want O'Rourke over Cruz.
-PJ
We have a paper system with a scanner. You vote on paper, then tear off a stub which goes in one container. You then insert the ballot into a scanner that reads and tallies your vote and puts the paper ballot into a locked bin for future reference if needed.
Simple solution. Don’t vote straight party. I never do even if I intend for one party to get all my votes. I also make sure to double-check my ballot when I am finished. Every. Time.
fidelity records every keystroke one makes online.
at a minimum electronic voting machines should do the same, but evidently they do not. they are not even client-server based, so it should be much more simple.
paper ballots are system design fool proof.
Tarrant county had an online video with a man showing you how to use the voting system. Unfortunately the first part of the video he was blocking the view of the computer screen. Then he was skipping steps assuming some steps were obvious. At the end he said oh by the way if you hit the enter button instead of the forward back buttons it changes your vote. It left me more confused than ever.
“It is time to return to paper ballots!”
I’m a Texas voter and my county (Denton County) uses paper ballots. Don’t know why the whole state hasn’t converted.
“It’s not a glitch, it’s a user-induced problem that comes from the type of system that we have,” Oldham said. “I think both sides could be equally hurt.”
User induced? So, shouldn’t they look into systems that minimize that possibility? Like...oh, I don’t know, force a confirmation at each choice point? And, how about we dump the straight ticket option, maybe? Force the user to select at each choice point...A, B, C, or NO SELECTION MADE...
And, ‘I think both sides could be equally hurt.’ Really? One person’s non technical opinion should not be the answer, here.
Purple ink, paper ballots and golf pencils. Then, an army of counters in a three-way count verified process.
I’ll let things go another day for the counting, if it means we get VALID, ACCURATE results.
And, voter ID at ALL POLLING STATIONS. Pre-Registration required, no more election day registration.
It should be illegal to not have a paper ballots.
That’s all we have in Australia. You Americans have some screwie voting setups. Down here you produce a valid id at at voting centres in your electorate ( you can cast a vote in an electorate not your own. An absentee vote its called) where you can cast your vote. You show ID. Have your name found on the electoral roll. Have your name crossed off. Get handed your ballot paper(s). Take them to a partitioned cardboard booth for privacy. Make your selection on ballot papers. Fold ballot papers and place in appropriate ballot box. Walk out of polling station. Congratz you have just voted in an Ozzie election. No fuss. No bother. No nonsense.
That’s because we Americans have democrats and voter fraud has been their practice since Tammany Hall in the 19th century.
No one has thought of this???!!!
You can't vote straight ticket here in Missouri and our ballots are paper.
The electronic portion is the tally when you feed your ballot into the box.
If there's a question about the tally they can always go back and count the paper ballots.
They still manage to cheat up in St. Louis where more votes than registered voters show up in some precincts.
Funny that there's never an investigation.
And how many candidates are you voting for? I’m a yank in Canada.
In the majority of Canadian elections, people are voting for exactly one person. That greatly simplifies things.
We just had municipal elections, which in our jurisdiction involved voting for five different individuals—and I believe a school board position as well. That is extremely heavy for Canada. In the U.S. voting for so few positions would be on the extremely light side.
That complicates things.
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