Personal Experience: Kathy Dopp describes a run-in with Diebold's 3-strikes rule.

[Stevepol]

Here's another horror story about the voting machines. God help us get rid of this plague.

Kathy Dopp tells the tale:

Hello Friends,

Just a little personal story today.

Today I voted on a Diebold/Premier touch-screen DRE voting machine in Utah.

I decided to test the Diebold "3 strikes and you're out" rule today but unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the instructions on the screen which warned me that as soon as I pressed the PRINT BALLOT option, MY BALLOT WOULD BE CAST FOR ME, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE PAPER BALLOT ROLL RECORD MATCHED MY CHOICE!

In fact, a voter would have no time to call a poll worker over to see the erroneous paper roll ballot record before it vanishes into its cannister once the "PRINT BALLOT" option is selected.

YES. REALLY. This is one of the reasons why New Jersey did not approve any voter verifiable paper roll printers for use in New Jersey because if the paper roll record does not match your voting choice and you cancel your ballot twice, on your third try - You're OUT!

As soon as you print your ballot look fast because it rolls up inside the paper roll canister and you are done voting - no matter if the paper ballot roll record matches your choice or not.

I had fun playing with it today, but I forgot to take a picture of the amazing message which warns you that if you PRINT BALLOT on the third try - your BALLOT IS CAST FOR YOU.

HONEST.

Utah is rapidly becoming a backwards state as to its voting system. So far, the following states have either scrapped or their officials or legislators have begun the process of scrapping their easily hacked, expensive, inaccurate touch-screen DRE voting systems:

Colorado
Ohio
California
Florida
Maryland
New Mexico
Iowa

As you may know, there were reports today of vote-flipping from Grand County, Utah today where some voters pressed one candidate, but another candidate's name appeared selected by the touchscreen.