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WatchWhatISay

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Tue Nov-04-03 01:10 PM
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Voters encounter eSlate glitches

Edited on Tue Nov-04-03 01:14 PM by WatchWhatISay

Unbelievable mess going on in Houston. Friend who sent me this thinks may be/was where Mom & Pop Bush vote.

David Puckett said he sat down on the floor and spent 25 minutes scribbling down his choices while other voters just took the time to write in their votes on the top races before dropping their homemade ballots into a pasteboard box. He said an election judge told him to write on the back of the paper if he ran out of room and then told him he might need to vote again this afternoon if the eSlate machines come back up. Then, Puckett said, the judges decided a second vote wasn't such a good idea.

"They're making up rules as they go," he said. " It's unbelievable."

www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory2/2200181

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Tue Nov-04-03 01:38 PM
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1. That is disgusting!!!!!!!

Lots of draft and bombing threads this morning. Let me give y-all a kick.

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rdub

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Tue Nov-04-03 01:44 PM
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2. maybe we should just go to automatic handwriting recognition systems...

It's possibly the only way we could make voting systems even more error prone.

-Deckard

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AngryYoungMan

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Tue Nov-04-03 02:47 PM
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3. Or we could implant memories into the replicants...

(sorry) :)

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leftchick

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Tue Nov-04-03 04:05 PM
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4. Please Notify Bev Harris of these and all other "gitches"

at BBVreport.org.....

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Kelvin Mace

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Tue Nov-04-03 07:22 PM
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8. I'll mention when I talk to her

I have posted the story to bbv.com

David Allen
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Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org

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Kelvin Mace

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Tue Nov-04-03 07:26 PM
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9. The interesting part of this story

is not that there were problems with the machines, but that no one had a clue what to do when they didn't work. No contingency plan.

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org

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DUreader

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Tue Nov-04-03 05:23 PM
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5. Kicking

and screaming

losing hope

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DoYouEverWonder

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Tue Nov-04-03 05:34 PM
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6. Is the media covering this?

Since we have to do their job for them, maybe we should alert the assorted news programs about what's going on?

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Trek234

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Tue Nov-04-03 07:03 PM
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7. I just voted in Houston (30 mins ago)

There were no problems at my voting place.

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leftchick

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Tue Nov-04-03 08:58 PM
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10. kick for Democracy!!!!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

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