Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:21 PM
Omaha Steve (35,851 posts)
Spider in (aging) voting machine entangles Massachusetts town election
Source: Globalpost
An itsy bitsy spider is to blame for jamming up a voting machine in Massachusetts on Election Day. Rehoboth Town Clerk Kathleen Conti called a technician after one of the town's aging voting machines malfunctioned during Tuesday's election, The Associated Press reported. The machine stopped recognizing ballots, which threatened to delay voting results. Staff counted more than 800 votes by hand until the technician arrived and discovered that the eight-legged culprit's web had blocked a sensor in the machine, according to the Boston Globe. FULL story at link. Read more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/news/regions/americas/united-states/spider-in-voting-machine-rehoboth-massachusetts 
A spider is responsible for jamming up the voting machine in a small Massachusetts town, forcing staff to count ballots by hand. (Prakesh Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)
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Author | Time | Post |
 Spider in (aging) voting machine entangles Massachusetts town election (Original post) |
Omaha Steve | Nov 2012 | OP |
| Gargoyle22 | Nov 2012 | #1 | |
| Warpy | Nov 2012 | #2 | |
| Bette Noir | Nov 2012 | #3 | |
| Phillip McCleod | Nov 2012 | #9 | |
| sakabatou | Nov 2012 | #12 | |
| BouzoukiKing | Nov 2012 | #4 | |
| littlemissmartypants | Nov 2012 | #5 | |
| Ian David | Nov 2012 | #6 | |
| millijac | Nov 2012 | #7 | |
| Phillip McCleod | Nov 2012 | #8 | |
| LiberalEsto | Nov 2012 | #10 | |
| AsahinaKimi | Nov 2012 | #11 | |
| sakabatou | Nov 2012 | #13 | |
| AsahinaKimi | Nov 2012 | #14 | |
| sakabatou | Nov 2012 | #15 |
Response to Gargoyle22 (Reply #1)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:48 PM
Warpy (69,210 posts)
2. My cruddy little town on Cape Cod used paper ballots, publicly counted
Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:19 AM
3. That IS why they call it "a bug in the system."
Response to Bette Noir (Reply #3)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 07:19 PM
12. Yep, all the way back to the Harvard Mark II
Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:21 AM
4. Heh. Ask Admiral Grace Hopper...
Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:25 AM
littlemissmartypants (3,009 posts)
5. Sir Walter Scott said:
Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 07:17 AM
Ian David (68,450 posts)
6. See, we need to replace those old machines with electronic Diebold machines! n/t
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Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:46 AM
LiberalEsto (16,780 posts)
10. Was the spider one of KKKarlRove's trained minions?
Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 05:28 PM
AsahinaKimi (18,102 posts)
11. JUST IMAGINE what havoc could have played out had it been a RADIO ACTIVE SPIDER!!
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Response to AsahinaKimi (Reply #11)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 07:21 PM
13. Paint it green with an unhappy face, take away the arms...
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and he'll be a creeper from Minecraft:
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