Comments on: ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION

By: Buzzy Whitlow

Buzzy Whitlow — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:49:32 +0000

The machines at Warren 57 didn’t work until 11:00, perhaps because they weren’t plugged in? And the D-inspector who was in charge of that didn’t want anybody bothering “her” machines, even though several folks tried to rectify the situation? Just a little info.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:20:34 +0000

Ha ha ha ha ha. Best. Election. Headline. Ever! Abdul, was that an original or did you see that somewhere else. ROTFLMAO.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:39:09 +0000

Longtime Pollworker let me be the first to say THANK YOU. I know it is because of people like you who come out election after election and stay there all day to ensure I can cast my ballot. There were hiccups at my polling station this morning but I thanked those election workers because I value my right to vote.

By: Longtime Pollworker

Longtime Pollworker — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:13:13 +0000

Katz is right, and excuse the ramble I’m about to go on, but my day started at 4:30 a.m.

Sorry folks, I’ve been an R inspector and an R judge under elections ran by both parties and there is NO conspiracy at the local level. Nothing but well intentioned volunteers doing their best.

The machines don’t need to work at the time you’re there for them work in the end. If they’re offline when you’re there then after the machines are working and the bi partisan board finds a lull in the action they’ll open that locked box and run the ballots through. The accounting at the end of the day accounts for every single ballot, and the total number of ballots voted in the machine gets cross checked with the number of voted paper ballots and the number of signatures in the poll book.

Beth White had a major fubar in may, trumping her predecessors many fubars, but neither of them are the local volunteers. It always ticked me off when Ed Treacy would call local pollworkers rascists and threaten them with jail time, and it ticked me off when Tom John did it last may. Insults and threats are no way to get folks to work.

IF the fix is in, it ain’t in at the local precinct level. Bottom line though, if you have an issue with how the poll workers at your precinct handle their duties then quit your whining and do the job yourself.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:14:18 +0000

Sorry ’bout the Dem control of the CC?!?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:08:57 +0000

Don’t want to speak too soon, but it’s looking pretty good for Ballard and the CC. 76% of the votes in and Ballard has a 6% lead. I wish we knew how much of the Center Township votes are in.

By: Katz

Katz — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:51:53 +0000

Jay & Others,

You may want to put the conspiracy theories aside. Have you ever been in a polling place after it closes and witnessed what goes on?

The totals from the machine are compared with the number of ballots, hand-counted. And this is done with representatives from both parties; and they count together to ensure that the tallies aren’t manipulated. Only AFTER that number tallied is agreed upon are the precincts numbers reported back to HQ.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:37:04 +0000

I was going to put in my paper sheet and noticed the scanner wasn’t working and the box full of ballots. This was around 8:30am in Lawrence. I asked the worker what the problem was and she simply stated the machines weren’t working. We laughed at the idea that schools could figure out scantron machines but elections couldn’t.

Here’s a stupid question: don’t these voting machines have an electrical cord? Sounds like a design flaw to me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:59:15 +0000

Your prediction sounds like Carson / Dickerson all over again … let’s hope not.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:28:09 +0000

People, people.

The election is not not rigged. Bart is a little behind in early tallies. Later tonight when he needs the votes the previsouly broken machines and unscanned ballots will be tallied in such a way as to produce a narrow – but not too-narrow – victory. 52-48 will be the final score, and you got 4 more years of Bart.