<p>My (very) local newspaper has reported that none of the votes at my polling place (in NYC) have been counted because half the machines couldn’t be opened last night. That was after one in my election district failed within the first 2 hours of voting. </p>
<p>So, my vote may not be counted. </p>
<p>To put it mildly, I’m incensed. We had a (very) local “election” on different machines at the same pollling place. Not one malfunctioned. </p>
<p>I’m just curious as to whether any of the rest of you know of any problems.</p>
<p>Typical. Yes I heard stories from other areas as well. It just blows my mind that the public is so ignorant so as to think there isn’t voting fraud.</p>
<p>Last election, many precincts in Boston ran out of ballots. There were more available in some central location, but due to rush-hour traffic it took police over an hour to get them delivered to some locations. After this debacle, the Secretary of State informed everyone that the law says there must be enough ballots on hand at each polling place for a 100% turnout. Didn’t hear of any trouble this time.</p>
<p>Governor Corzine had problems too. Leal, of course there is voting fraud – usually from democrats, but one needn’t apply malicious motives to poll workers when simple incompetence is more likely.</p>
<p>Why do you say ‘usually from democrats?’ How do you back that up? Um, didn’t the republican win in 2000 and 2004, the elections fraught with the most voting fraud? Bags of ballots uncounted in black precincts, blacks turned away from the polls, polls closing early, votes changing to bush in front of people’s eyes, jeb confident that w had it wrapped up even when the results showed Gore had won…? All in the favor of bush.</p>
<p>I agree that in many cases it’s just incompetence, legitimate mistakes, etc. I’m not referring to those normal things that have always happened. I’m referring primarily to the electronic voting machines, which are PROGRAMMED. As a former computer programmer, I know how easy it is to program machines to do one’s bidding. Do some research on who owns diebold.</p>
<p>“As a former computer programmer, I know how easy it is to program machines to do one’s bidding. Do some research on who owns diebold.”</p>
<p>As a former computer programmer you should certainly know that the owner of any business is the least likely person to be able to get into the code of a product and change it. Even if he wanted to have the code changed by one of his programmers, do you think he trusts his employees to such an extent that he is willing to go to jail should they rat him out?</p>
<p>But, if it makes life inetersting for the conspiracy theorists, I’m sure there are plenty out there who will buy into this nonsense.</p>
<p>Just throwing this out there but perhaps the machines simply did not work? I mean, it’s not like everytime something goes wrong it’s because of “the man.”</p>
<p>“Um, didn’t the republican win in 2000 and 2004, the elections fraught with the most voting fraud?”</p>
<p>I think that was 1960.</p>
<p>"Bags of ballots uncounted in black precincts, blacks turned away from the polls, polls closing early, votes changing to bush in front of people’s eyes, "</p>
<p>Can you back any of that up?<br>
How about St. Louis? The dead voting?</p>