Austin voters (maybe Texas in general) - a warning.

with a back box machine, no auditing and who knows which way the vote ends up tallied. We are becoming more and more a third world country each day ... problem is many do not seem to get this and many do not care. These folks are the exception, but many wader around with deer in the headlight looks and thinking abilities.

they don't screw around with our VOTES!

buying elections. They are a wholly dishonest, threating and dangerous political party and dangerous to the survival of the US. IMO this election is not just about R vs. D, it's also about the survival of the US as a democracy. With Obama/Biden we have a chance, with Romney/Ryan the future of the US as a democracy is gone.

All one has to do is look at the companies and what happened to the employees as Bain Capital took over. Replace employees with citizens, and that's the future for most citizens, a dystopia many seem to be welcoming with open arms if they vote for Romney/Ryan. Just the strange smirk Romney perpetually wears should tell even the most naive what's going on one would think.

OpEdNews: Rigged Elections for Romney?


http://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Rigged-Elections-for-Romne-by-Michael-Collins-121022-13.html

I'm sure other DUers have links to whom they should call. You need to follow up with this, if you can, as I doubt it's a random error. This is how they steal the elections. I remember this from 2004, too!!!

There was a video done where it showed someone trying to vote for the Democratic candidate, and it kept reverting to Bush.

I hope the UN observers know about this problem...
No wonder Texas does not want them there at the polls.

Does anybody really consider Texas to be in play?

This looks like an attempt to steal votes from Obama, but why would they bother?
Does he have any chance of winning there?

1) Texas uses Hart Intercivic Machines... which Romney's friends and family functionally own

2) Vote flipping in "safe" states for Republicans creates the meme of a "popular mandate"

3) If the vote flipping in some places fails, and Romney looses the electoral vote, but not the popular, it creates a very bad dynamic for 4 years

voting machines fall out calibration and where you touch the screen, it "thinks" you touched it somewhere else. They're supposed to recalibrate the machines each morning and I believe a good faith effort is made to do this. I saw this happen in a sherrif's race some years ago when helping a disabled person vote.

Bottom line, carefully review your ballot before you submit it.

And it was nowhere near the names of the candidates. Not even on the same page. This is something entirely different.

But your advice about careful ballot review is excellent.

The option to vote straight ticket is right before the Presidential choices. On the same page.

But that is my recollection from the last election. My mistake. Still, there is no way to vote straight Dem and have the entire ballot filled out with one click, while 'accidentally' choosing a repub candidate with a misplaced touch. As you pointed out, especially on the machines we use, since they are not touchscreens.

It uses a dial-a-prayer wheel to highlight ballot choices and then you press a button to make your selection.

They're scroll-wheel.

I'll be sure to let everyone I know that will be voting to double check their ballot.

because on the summary page, I made sure no Repub candidate gets my vote. Either Green Party if no Democrat, but not Republican. If only Repub, I left blank (I live in deep red county). If Romney were selected, it would have jumped out in front of me.

But it's good to call to attention.

I am running the voter protection operation for my county for the County Democratic Party. Your advice is very good and I urge all voters to check the summary screen at the end to make sure that the proper selections have been made.

There is an e-mail going around telling people that you have to vote separately for President if you vote a straight party ticket. That e-mail is true for North Carolina but not Texas. North Carolina law prohibits one from voting POTUS on a straight party ticket and so in North Carolina, you vote for POTUS first and then get to vote a straight party ticket for the rest of the races.

In Texas on a number of machines, voting a straight party ticket and then voting for the candidate also is called emphasis voting and messes up the software. That is why it is always a good idea to check the summary screen at the end to make sure that your vote is accurate.

This e-mail is going through my county and we have to do a robocall and e-mail blast trying to warn people that this e-mail is not accurate for Texas. Snopes has debunked this e-mail. We are telling our voters to be careful and check the summary screen at the end before they cast their ballot.

Hopefully voters in NC know about this, because that really is a big problem-if they vote straight democratic but don't vote for Obama separately they didn't vote for president.

to vote? Why has it come to this?

(rhetorical)

Hated to see so many R's and Libertarians w/no Dems even running!

I'll try it out and see what happens.

Thanks for sharing the information.

in every state!

We cannot let these people get by with treason. Similar things could happen anywhere.

Don't let your guard down.

This is the first time I've voted in a (blue) border county in south Texas and they were using, to my surprise, a real paper ballot !!! Don't know if it's budget reasons or they just don't trust those oversized Newtons but whatever the case I LIKED IT.

and an electronic tabulation machine...

thats where the fix is

send this info to the FBI - 281-514-1888

I used an optical scan (and voted straight "D"). It does not display who you voted for, it only counts the number of ballots it collects.

this election, as well as the ones that got Bush (W) in. I was concerned with OH, since Tagg Romney just purchased the company supplying the voting machines to OH. Isn't that a bit of a conflict? Just a tad? Now, we go to TX and see the bullshit happening again. The only way these people are going to win is by cheating, and they're good at that. This is scary.