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"Calibration error" causing voting machines in Chicago

Posted: Oct 22, 2014

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I read this, too. - Not surprising.

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Deceitful democratic party at its finest and in Illinois no less!

Mechanical failure on machine first use - Recall the election!

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or maybe just calm down and fix the machine.

(yawn...) Must be a slow news day in Chicago. - nm

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Error - anonie

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I think that is how O got re-elected. Can't tell me otherwise.

Now he has a way to get the illegals to vote. This is unfair. They have no rights.

Reelected - Landslide

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You think that enough machines were tampered with all over the country to give Obama a landslide victory over your boy Mittens, and no outraged tpub managed to find any evidence? Do you hold any other absurd beliefs that you'd like to share for our entertainment?

And what way has the president found to give illegal immigrants a vote? Details, please. Last I checked, only citizens can vote. Can you cite a source that doesn't trace back to some tbag website?

It's being exaggerated, as usual. It's a touchscreen calibration issue. - It doesn't actually "switch" a vote

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I've volunteered to work polls for decades. Sometimes the touchscreens have to be calibrated to reflect the selection being made. The user touches the screen to make their selection, but it will select the candidate above or below because the calibration is off. This sometimes happens after heavy use so the machine is recalibrated to reflect where the voter is actually touching.

It's no big deal, and you can see quite easily when you touch the screen who you're selecting. If the calibration is off, you can adjust your touches accordingly and easily select the candidate of your choice, but usually you find out a machine is "off" because people will let you know really quickly that it's off so that it can be recalibrated to match exactly where the voter touches versus below/above it.

When this happened in Dallas County, Texas, the Democratic voters were complaining about touching Obama, and it was selecting Romney, so it was working just the opposite there in the Republican's favor. You can double check all your choices before you submit them, so seriously it's no big deal. You just don't submit the ballot unless it reflects your correct picks.

No one's vote is ever actually switched.

Thank you! Finally someone on this board with - some reasoning skills!

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When you select Romney, but Obama's name keeps coming up - no matter how many times

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you push the name for the republican and then it tells you "Thank you for submitting your vote for Obama", Um, that means the machine selected one when you wanted someone else.

Yes, the votes were actually switched.

It's a touchscreen. There is no push, and nothing is switched. - sm

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Did you read the story on Fox News? The touchscreen is off.

Quoting Fox News: The conservative website Illinois Review reported that “While using a touch screen voting machine in Schaumburg, Moynihan voted for several races on the ballot, only to find that whenever he voted for a Republican candidate, the machine registered the vote for a Democrat in the same race. He notified the election judge at his polling place and demonstrated that it continued to cast a vote for the opposing candidate’s party. Moynihan was eventually allowed to vote for Republican candidates, including his own race.

Moynihan offered this gracious lesson to his followers on Twitter: “Be careful when you vote in Illinois. Make sure you take the time to check your votes before submitting.” (see link below)

You touch a spot on the screen, but it registers off in another spot. You notice this and either adjust your touch until the correct candidate is reflected or ask to be moved to another machine. You review all your selections before you touch the submit button. If all your selections aren't correct, you go back and fix the choices. Only submit the ballot when your choices are double checked and you approve. It doesn't switch them after you've made your choices.

If you are just determined to believe that it's all rigged to switch your vote, then someone has really lied to you and you decided to believe it because it fit your worldview that everything is rigged unless it's the outcome you desire.

I cannot fathom why conservatives think an election is only fair if they win it. Our last two presidential elections weren't close in the electoral college, as both were totally lopsided in favor of the Democrat.

This is why they should do away with machine votes - Chicago wasn't the only place

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I read about the machines throughout the country that did this. It also happened when Hillary was running. Votes were being changed to her name. Not what people wanted.

If there is a computer it can be hacked. Facts have proven this. Computer ballots are about as fair as calling in on a cell phone or voting by email.

The only real fair way to know what the real votes are is by paper vote. One paper vote per citizen of the country. Have a huge pic of one candidate on one side and the other candidate on the other side with a huge box. Check one or the other. Its the only way to ensure a fair election.

Not true. - sm

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Paper ballots have been known to be misplaced and uncounted and found weeks or months later. They are also easily disposed, never to be seen again.

The current system has less chance for fraud, as votes are tabulated quickly as soon as they are made and can't somehow disappear later. It's not perfect, nothing is, but it's got safeguards in place so that it can't be tampered with after the fact. Paper ballots don't.

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