Forsyth County, NC voting machine didn't print receipt, what should I do?

[ghurley]

Voted this afternoon and the machine is supposed to print out results on a paper receipt within the machine. The printer was not working properly but the poll workers told me not worry about it. They said it was a third backup. I called the Democratic party here in the county and they referred me to the Board of Elections phone number. I called that number and they said there was nothing to worry about.

Is this something I should be worried about? Who do I need to contact?

[tonyt53]

1. You can go back and demand it. Either the paper is empty or the machine is malfunctioning.

[ghurley]

4. I'm at work now, but I have contacted the board of elections via email.

I'll see what happens.

[hedda_foil]

2. They call it the third backup because it's recorded on a card on the machine and ....

...in a machine total that gets printed out after the polls close. The individual votes can be printed out from the machine card. If there's recount,one of these is what they use. Since neither of those so-called backups tells us whether they reflect the votes as the voters intended them to be cast, manipulation is possible. The machine with a malfunctioning printer should be taken out of service.

[msongs]

3. recorded on a card? maybe. nobody actually knows. receipts can be phoney and

just because you got a receipt does NOT MEAN that is how the vote is actually tallied inside the machine