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"Calibration error" causes votes to change from republican to democrat

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 9 years, 6 months ago to Politics
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So, how many other machines have done this, but no one noticed? Or said anything? And in Illinois no less.... The home of Chicago... Wow, I don't really believe this was an error. How about manual ballots?
SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/22/calibration-error-changes-gop-votes-to-dem-in-illinois-county/


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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 9 years, 6 months ago
    Voting problems in Illinois...a state where I think 4 of the last 7 governors have done jail time for fraud, racketeering, bribery, etc.

    Coincidence? Nope. Where I come from, and even with Common Core, 2 plus 2 still equals 4.
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  • Posted by starznbarz 9 years, 6 months ago
    Having seen this story in various locations for the last couple days, one obvious question has yet to pop up ...why would a voting machine be ABLE to be "calibrated" to change a vote input? The feds managed to get a 'firewall" between investigative agencies, yet in their regulatory frenzy, they seem to have "overlooked" fail-safing a reasonably simple device.....
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  • Posted by DeadRight 9 years, 6 months ago
    Calibration, mule fritters.
    I have worked with many GUIs. If made properly and software programmed accordingly, no "calibration" is required. It is digitally mapped when done properly. Of course machines produced from government contracts with impossible specifications and parameters could be made to require calibration. But anyone interested in repeatable design and build as well as efficiency would not be caught dead with a design that required calibration.
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  • Posted by RevJay4 9 years, 6 months ago
    Having some experience with touch screen type machines in certain scenarios, I know they can be calibrated to register a touch other than what is "touched". Not for a nano-second do I accept that, in the land of ultra-liberalism of Illinois, it was an accident. And, how long has it been going on prior to being discovered? And who is servicing these machines? SEIU employees? Fraud is a real possibility, especially in liberal areas.
    Maybe its just my paranoia again.
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  • Posted by gerstj 9 years, 6 months ago
    Serious jail time for vote fraud is the only solution, but the left is now so bold that they don't even care if they are obvious. There are a few isolated cases where foot soldiers get a rap on the knuckles, but nothing that will stop the slide toward elections for show only in these areas.
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  • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 6 months ago
    I had a degree of this problem when I voted in Vegas last weekend (we have early voting at various shopping centers). Using a touch-screen, I attempted to vote for one particular candidate and a different one was highlighted. I simply changed my vote by finding the correct location on the screen; it seems that the machine I was using was off a few pixels. I suspect that this is really is a calibration problem with some machines being off by quite a bit. Mine was only off a few pixels so I didn't report it. In retrospect, perhaps I should have.

    These are portable voting machines and I do not doubt that they can lose registration after being jostled around when moved from place to place. All the more reason that qualified technicians must check them out after each move to ensure that they are registering votes properly.
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  • Posted by RonC 9 years, 6 months ago
    Have you ever noticed that those pesky calibration errors only seem to work one way? How could a random error be biased?
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  • Posted by rjkford 9 years, 5 months ago
    Sorry I'm late to this topic, but I was listening to Bill Bennett this am and heard that Colorado votes by MAIL! With the news about the post office employees dumping mail, going thru mail etc etc. Also, aren't all Post Office employees Union members? If so, might they have some interest in who's vote they are taking in? This also sets up the famous "Oh, look what I found in the back of a mail truck" in a close race. One last thought, how can you check to see if your vote counted. We should go back to paper ballots where you can see your vote recorded and if there is a problem, you can go back and manually count them.
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 5 months ago
      Theoretically, there would be a professionalism in the ranks of the USPS that would call for them to transmit all correspondence duly paid for. However, in reality, those union thugs will look at the poster's of such correspondence and if they disagree, they will ditch it.

      I am a rather prolific poster of letters to the editor in our local paper. I have no doubt that the postal carriers and postal workers in the local office know who I am, and my political leanings. It would not be difficult for them to take my ballot response (since I'm usually out of town on election day, I nearly always vote some form of absentee) and dispose of it. I nearly always bring the ballot in personally, so that it is delivered directly to the clerk of the town. Does this ensure that it isn't then disposed of? No. But I can at least after the fact check to see if I had voted, and if not, challenge where my ballot ended up. Not foolproof, but better than nothing.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 5 months ago
    The IRS crusade to revoke 501(c)3 status from only right-wing groups is also election fraud, and it is ongoing despite the hearings in Congress. So I'm not surprised this is going on, too.

    We need to let the Congresscritters know loud and clear, they must preserve a completely honest and fair system of elections, or we'll be forced to overthrow them by other means than running for office. And there are no degrees of honesty; it's all-or-nothing.
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