Are Man And Machine Set For Record Voting?

CBS Evening News: Long Lines Forecast What Could Be Overwhelming Crowds On Nov. 4

(CBS)  Early voting took on the look of a hit movie Friday. Enormous lines formed in Florida, offering a sneak peek of what election officials predict will be a blockbuster turnout on Tuesday, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports.

"It was two hours," said one voter. "I thought it was going to be about 30 minutes."

Another voter gave up and left "because it takes three hours to vote."

Scenes like those are sparking widespread anxiety that the system - both man and machine - may simply overload.

"Many of our election officials really do not have the resources in terms of machines and poll workers and computers to check people in and move an efficient election," said Judith Brown Dianis of the Advancement Project, a legal action group focused on racial justice.

Nearly 90 percent of all votes will be cast or counted by computer, triggering fears over poorly trained poll workers, machine malfunctions - and even the number of machines, which are literally all over the map.

In Colorado, for example, it's one machine per 400 voters; in Pennsylvania one per 300; in Virginia one per 750.

"It's completely unclear how many voting machines are going to be in one place, and how many are going to be in another," said Tovah Wang, vice president of research for the nonprofit, non-partisan group Common Cause.

Then there's this potential can of worms - known as provisional ballots. Anyone who has a problem at the polls gets one, which may or may not be counted.

If the race for President tightens they may become the next big battle, starting Nov. 5th.

[beader59]

Mail-in voting for every state.

[inventagod2]

I believe we should vote AND count votes by hand.

It is too important to be abused.

The only reason we don''t is so the media can sell their story within 12 hours - that is all. Let them wait!

[erb0087]

I love the touch-screen voting machines.

Soooooooo easy to use.

They have taken all the "difficulty" that some people have had, completely out of the voting process.

[erb0087]

That ad to the right:

"Barack Obama''s IQ is 142"

How do they know what his IQ is ?

[nothappyatall]

"It was two hours," said one voter. "I thought it was going to be about 30 minutes."

Another voter gave up and left "because it takes three hours to vote."

Morons- VOTE ABSENTEE via mail!


"I love the touch-screen voting machines.
Soooooooo easy to use."

They have taken all the "difficulty" that some people have had, completely out of the voting process.

Posted by erb0087"

And SOOOOOO easy to manipulate- Ive seen the videos and news reports- DO NOT EVER TRUST AN ELECTRONIC VOTING machine, especially one made by a right supporting company with proprietary non-public software codes!
Sooooo easy = your vote can be changed or trashed by ONE person manipulating a couple of codes or backdoor access in the software.

[guerino4]

PAY ATTENTION EVERYBODY
go see that video at this adress
http://www.reopen911.info/video/hacking-democracy.html

This is a reporting concerning the automatic voting machine. The web site is french but the reporting is in english and please share this adress as much as you can because the biggest problem is that peoples forget. Be aware when you go to the poll.

FOR A REAL DEMOCRATY

[juwboy]

beader59 said:

"Mail-in voting for every state."

If you give Moslems the right to vote by mail, the imam at their local mosque will order his congregation to hand their ballot papers over to him so that he can vote for them.

This is what happened in England at their last general election.

[iamdemocrat]

(HONOLULU)(November 1, 2008) Internet powerhouse Andy Martin has ignited a firestorm in Hawai''i over Barack Obama''s bogus "original" birth certificate. Martin won a stunning victory Friday afternoon (October 31st) when the State of Hawai''i backed his assertion that there was an original, "typewritten, 1961" birth certificate, called a "Certificate of Live Birth" or "COLB" in Hawai''i, that no one has previously seen. Hawai''i officials retrieved and examined the document after Martin filed a lawsuit seeking access to the historic 1961 original.

Obama has falsely claimed to have placed the "original" on the Internet. Factcheck.org has falsely claimed to have seen this document and posted it on the Internet; that is not true. CNN has falsely ridiculed Martin.

Hawai''i officials have now refuted Obama''s false assertion.

Martin''s victory in Honolulu will roil the final weekend of the presidential campaign. Internet chatter is expected to explode as the issue moves to the front page over Saturday and Sunday. Swing voters may be swayed by the exposure that Obama has brazenly been lying to the American people. "We just lobbed a grenade into the final weekend of the presidential campaign," says Andy.

"I am ecstatic. I called Obama a liar. I called Factcheck.org ''ObamaLies.org.'' I said CNN was sloppy and lazy and wrong. And I was right. The State of Hawai''i has now backed me up.
-andy martin

[farmerbb]

Just how many people does one polling location have to serve, anyway ? Did they not plan for this, ever ? Time to revert to the good old paper ballot. People should not have to wait hours to vote. COUNTING ballots by computer may be almost instant, but what kind of rocket scientist decided it was more important to COUNT the ballots quickly, than it was to allow people to VOTE quickly ?

[albertw40]

No, in many states they aren''t ready. And in some voter exclusion is a policy. I saw the video of the old gal who chairs the Philadelphia election commission. She was asked if the probably of unreasonably long lines at voting stations bothered her. She said no. After all, some people stand in line all night long to buy I-Pods. In other words, the Philadelphia election commission intentionally wants to exclude disabled and older people who can''t stand in line a long time as well as working middle class and poor whose jobs make it impossible for them to stand in line hours and hours. In my own state (Missouri) in 2004 they closed the polls with people still in line. Most of those people never got to vote. There is a lot of voter exclusion, especially in battleground states where the GOP thinks such exclusion might tip the state their way.