Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
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Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#2Obviously staged, obviously edited, obviously fake.
Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#3Voting machines need to be a lot better than this or not exist at all, but does anyone actually think that IF this machine was altering votes, it would alter it in this fashion with a UI element tied to the alteration? Seems more like a crappy touch screen.
Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#4The shenanigans you seem to tolerate during elections are just incomprehensible to us foreigners. The number of horror stories I've heard in the last couple of weeks regarding everything from just weirdness of the system to blatant manipulation is farcical.
It's possible that I'm getting a bleaker picture than reality, I suppose, since I only read about the broken stuff and not the instances where everything just works.
Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#5I hope this is a hoax.
Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#6Voting machines need to be a lot better than this or not exist at all, but does anyone actually think that IF this machine was altering votes, it would alter it in this fashion with a UI element tied to the alteration? Seems more like a crappy touch screen.
This was my thought exactly. If someone was going through the trouble of altering votes, it would make no sense to make note of this within UI elements, it could just as easily "secretly" change the votes for 1/8 (just my theoretical magical number) voters and alter the results just enough without being noticeable.
Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#7Obviously staged, obviously edited, obviously fake.
I'll give you obviously edited, but why so sure about the other two?
Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#8Looks like a calibration issue. They should have included selecting other candidates in the list. While not good enough (voting machines should be "perfect") calling it "altering votes" is a little much. It shows you that it has registered the wrong candidate, I would call this incorrectly registering input.
Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#9Obviously staged, obviously edited, obviously fake.
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Re: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
#10Obviously staged, obviously edited, obviously fake.
Evidence, citations? Not at all obvious. On the surface, looks quite real. And I've had enough touch-screen devices to know that mis-calibration is common, so it's plausible.