Voting Problems

[gleef]

This footage is Jeff Waybright, the County Clerk for Jackson County, West Virginia, attempting to address allegations of vote switching on their new electronic voting machines:

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Remember, if you are voting at an electronic voting machine, double check, triple check your vote before you leave the booth. If you have any questions or concerns, call

Comments

Checking your ballot

[gleef]

We live in New York, we're still using the same old mechanical lever machines that elected FDR Governor in 1928. For us, a visual inspection of which levers are flipped is all that's needed. If you've got more or fewer levers flipped than you're supposed to, you need to fix it. If the levers don't work (or the big red lever that opens the curtain and punches your ballot), then call someone over.

For people on electronic machines (eg our friends in Maryland), they need to make sure that the screen reads what they intend it to read, and (if available) the paper record matches too. Sometimes there's more than one screen, and they need to check that every screen matches their intent.

[shaharazad]

Paper ballots here. If someone wants to stuff the ballot box, they have to do it the old fashioned way and actually, you know, stuff the ballot box.