OPRAH's Voting Booth Meltdown (VIDEO)

[L. Coyote]

Oprah Opts For Early-Voting, Has Voting Booth Meltdown (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | October 31, 2008 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/31/oprah-opts-for-early-voti_n_139869.html


Oprah Winfrey announced on her live show Friday that she took advantage of Illinois' early-voting laws and voted Thursday in Chicago — but not without a voting booth scare and near emotional meltdown.

"I was worried that there's gonna be such long lines, and I have a live show," Winfrey said, justifying her decision to vote early.

She waited 72 minutes to vote, only to have a near-meltdown in the booth.

"When I voted yesterday electronically, the first vote that you vote for on the ballot is the presidential candidate. It was my first time doing electronic, so I didn't mark the X strong enough, or I held down too long. Because then when I went back to check it, it had not recorded my presidential vote," she said.

She then simulated her meltdown, shaking and breathing heavily while stuttering out the words, "It didn't record my presidential vote."

Watch, and heed Oprah's advice to double check that your vote is recorded: VIDEO ...................

[The Brethren]

1. My meltdown will be

after the election if Diebold hands the election over to McCorpse. Then I'll be thinking: "Revolt, Baby, Revolt!" Just kidding...sort of.

[Lorien]

2. Why does she believe that her votes were recorded correctly at all? n/t

[L. Coyote]

3. Faith, Baby, Faith!

[Gregorian]

9. This is what I keep saying. Just because the visual says one thing.

I really wish we could all stop this electronic mess, right now, over this weekend, and demand paper before going one vote further.

[mucifer]

4. I voted on the same equipment. I DON'T agree with this assessment.

I voted in Chicago. What happens is you vote on a touch screen machine. Then it FORCES you to review it. Then it prints out your vote on paper and you SEE what it prints. Oprah was reviewing it and corrected it. No big deal!

[avaistheone1]

5. Electronic machines suck.

If Oprah had this problem so can alot of other people. Many people may not think or know to double check, and those are lost votes.

[mucifer]

6. you can't finish voting without double checking.

[avaistheone1]

7. Electronic voting machines are a huge problem.

Voting Machines Can Never Be Trusted, Says GOP Computer Security Expert

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/94895/voting_machines_can_never_be_trusted,_says_gop_computer_security_expert/?page=entire

[Jersey Devil]

8. She might have had a different machine - a Sequoia

In NJ we use the Sequoia machines and they do just what Oprah said. You can very easily push a button and not have the light come on if you don't push it hard enough or keep your finger on it too long and then hit the big RECORD VOTE button at the bottom. It does NOT force you to review your votes before recording them. And there is no paper printed out.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Completely agree...the touch screen in Chicago was fine

I voted on it a few days ago as well.

It's IMPOSSIBLE to vote for the wrong person, and there is an internal paper record of your vote that you get to review. The voting machines were fine.

[calimary]

10. Good! When it happens to someone high profile, maybe the problem will gain some traction.

All the better to draw attention to it. Shine a light on it. Make the cockroaches scatter and hide.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. The first vote on the Illinois ballot was not President, but Constitutional Convention

Just sayin'...