Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes

Post by evan_ » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 8:34 PM UTC

realrocker wrote: post #191

Calibration!! Really?? Any software/hardware developer here worth his/her salt would agree that can't be it. Let's see what could have happened: 1) The Y axis of the screen was maladjusted 2) Touch Sensitivity of the screen was reduced due to incorrect settings 3) Touch area had hair/dust/oil on it. But if you read the voter's story it happened only for Obama's field. Don't they have independent watchdogs looking aft…

Post by streptomycin » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 8:35 PM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #275

Locke1689 wrote: post #208

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Depends on what you mean by smarter. Someone who votes Democrat is equally likely to have a college education as a Republican.

Source? I have never heard this.

Post by danielweber » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 8:36 PM UTC

btilly wrote: post #308

danielweber wrote: post #273

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Unfortunately current US elections are unauditable because voting machines DO NOT produce any kind of verifiable voting trail Please stop. The machine in the video (at least when deployed in NC) absolutely has a paper receipt that gets printed every time a button is pressed.

Fine for that machine. According to http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/computer-s... a quarter of the country in this election will use paperless machines. No paper trail at all. According to polls, the election will be decided by swing states that are expected to have margins of victory under 4%. If, hypothetically, the election is decided for Romney in states like Pennsylvania which polls indicated w…

Post by squidsoup » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 8:37 PM UTC

morsch wrote: post #300

evandena wrote: post #253

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Bubbles seem stupid to me. It's a lot easier and less subjective on review to fill in an arrow than it is to fill in a bubble. Here's an example ballot of what I'm talking about: http://www.town.oregon.wi.us/uploads/ckfiles/images/nov_06_s...

Here's what our ballots look like: http://www.leinfelden-echterdingen.de/servlet/PB/show/141628... There's never been any real discussion about it being complicated, confusing or needing any other kind of design change. (Which isn't to say that you couldn't make arguments in that vein.)

Post by bti » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 8:38 PM UTC

jpwagner wrote: post #336

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #295

I know that this will remain at the bottom of this thread, because it doesn't have enough conspiracy theory in it, but does anyone really think that this is actual vote tampering ? I mean, why on earth would you tamper with a voting machine so that it stuffs the ballot, but have it update the UI so that the user can see and report the error? This should fall to the way side of failing basic logic, but it doesn't beca…

I agree. Has no one here used a touchscreen on an airplane seat before, it's usually more than one finger width offset...