South Mississippi (Diebold) voting problems

[merh]

Posted on Tue, Nov. 07, 2006
New voting machines pose Election Day problems
By TAMMY M. SMITH
SUN HERALD

Voters at several South Mississippi precincts reported problems with the new touch-screen machines as voting got under way in midterm elections this morning.

At Gulfport Little Theater and Biloxi Community Center, for example, voters were handed paper ballots because workers were unable to make to the machines work.

And at Margaret Sherry Library on Popps Ferry Road, three of seven touch-screen machines were working while at D'Iberville Community Center, just four of 13 were working.

(snip)

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/15950953.htm

[Selatius]

1. This is bullshit. I live in Ocean Springs, but am at University right now

This is what we get post-Katrina?

[merh]

4. It's the new machines that Dem Sec of State Eric Clark

strong armed the counties into buying and using.

Apparently they don't work (as the Harrison County Circuit Clerk warned).

Here is the television station's story on the screw ups.

Poll Workers Struggle With New Voting Machines
Nov 7, 2006 04:16 PM

Many of the mistakes reported at polling places had to do with the new electronic voting machines purchased by the Secretary of State's office. When poll workers struggled setting them up Tuesday morning, and then several of the machines stopped working, the early part of the election became a hassle for everybody.

About 350 electronic voting machines were sent to 66 Harrison County voting precincts. And every time one of the machines broke down, Connie Ladner's cellphone rang.

"Do you think you need it?" she asked one caller. When the answer from that precinct was yes, she said, "I'll get somebody to bring it out."

(snip)

http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=5646515&ClientType=Printable

The problems with displaced residents and destroyed precincts have yet to be reported.

[ClintonTyree]

2. How is it that Diebold can make........

ATMs that are exponentially more complicated and they can't build a voting machine that will boot up in the morning? It's almost as if..........they don't WANT them to work! :wow:

Gee, 'ya think? :eyes:

[Selatius]

3. Because bankers have vast amounts of money, and if ATMs don't work, then...

the bankers will marshal their private army of lawyers.

Most voters have no such resources.

Yes, and they also want to disenfranchise the poor and Black vote.

[EFerrari]

5. Low income workers who are the ones that are paying for these POS

machines.

Gotta love the Kleptocrats. They find a way to make us fund our own disenfranchisement.