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In reply to the discussion: Democrats Might Have Won the Last Big Election of 2013 With a Newly Discovered Voting Machine [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)69. Won't work-- ten races and 5 party lines means...
50 little boxes to be checked for each ballot. Then there are propositions and those "pick three out of five" offices, usually judges.
What are the odds your senior citizens are going to get it right as the night wears on? I'm a senior citizen and I don't trust my eyesight or my thought processes to do that sort of thing for 16 hours.
I have worked the polls many times and the errors I've seen (and made) just on the simple "who voted" list were common.
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Democrats Might Have Won the Last Big Election of 2013 With a Newly Discovered Voting Machine [View all]
Coyotl
Nov 2013
OP
For the sheer optics of it, it's good news. A clean sweep of Virginia is symbolic.
randome
Nov 2013
#4
Plus, we've reached the stage where a mob of GOP operatives in suits scream for the count to go on.
Coyotl
Nov 2013
#6
not always remember everyone's favorite little fraud kathy nicholas in wakeshua (sp?) county
leftyohiolib
Nov 2013
#9
Think of "uncounted votes" in terms of outcome = was flipped, then flipped back by sleuth's work.
Coyotl
Nov 2013
#53
in WA there were recount teams made up of both Dem and Rep. along with Dem and Rep.
gopiscrap
Nov 2013
#39
That's New Hampshire, with a smaller population than my county and...
TreasonousBastard
Nov 2013
#88
The beautiful irony here is that the rethug-led legislature pushed against paper trail voting!!!
JudyM
Nov 2013
#48
There's no real chain of custody, and the code in the machines are trade secrets.
alfredo
Nov 2013
#75
Failing to report machine tally, failing to count, human problems in #VaAG race switched result.
Coyotl
Nov 2013
#16
while i apprcieciate the attention you have brought to this problem
questionseverything
Nov 2013
#56
We know tomorrow is the certification deadline for counties to report to the SBE.
Coyotl
Nov 2013
#60
Someone discovered the vote total was too low. The ballots outnumbered the votes.
Coyotl
Nov 2013
#59
Fairfax provisionals just reported today, 55% acceptance first 310, 183 left to review.
Coyotl
Nov 2013
#52