Voting machines going down across the country

[JRR]

Originally Posted by justNancy

This will be my last post until after the election. I need to relax. Peace to everyone.

I think I'll join you in taking a break. This is going to get even more nasty here in the next few hours

[tinytrump]

if the gov. of the state is a republican-- the budget expense for voting is minimal - old machines, few polling places and NO overtime. cheap paper, pens with out ink - not enough ballots printed - like a third world country- we know you tricky Ricky in FL

[Redraven]

Here in good ol' backwards Montana we don't have fancy electronic voting machines.
We still use paper ballots, where the little oval must be filled in carefully.
However, the ballots are counted by an electronic reader.
However, State Law requires a manual recount before the results are certified.
So, the only "fraud" we have to worry about is having ballots cast by those who should not be voting. If that does happen (and it probably does), it likely isn't enough to affect the outcome of any but the very closest races.
I do feel sorry for them "big city" folks...

[zzzSnorlax]

Go figure, the machines that have been sitting in a backroom somewhere gathering dust are brought out and hooked up for the first time in months/years and some of them have problems. What a surprise, entropy exists! Physics is a conspiracy!

[Sundaydrive00]

I wonder how much of this is user error? The woman in front of me caused the machine to malfunction because she filled in too many bubbles on her paper ballot. Apparently she let her four year old child fill out the ballot, and when he didn't fill in the correct bubbles she drew an X over the candidate and had him fill in the correct bubbles. As I was waiting behind her I heard the little boy ask if they are going to get to vote a third time. So I guess she had already screwed up another ballot before the one that caused the machine to malfunction.

And then when they run out of ballots later this evening, people will again be shouting voter fraud.

[Marlow]

We have new voting machines and generally have older volunteers at the polls. I've heard about some slow starts but no allegations of fraud by anyone.