Comments on: Primary Day Disasters http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/ Fraudbuster Bob, fighting a never-ending battle for truth, electoral justice, and the American way. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: peacechicken http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-304 peacechicken Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:09:12 +0000 http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/#comment-304 Would you advocate voting absentee since the electronic machines are still so sketchy? I got a request form in the mail that I can send back for an absentee voting form and it seems like it'd be a much better idea. Not that I like trusting my vote to the US Postal Service, but I'd rather them have it than Diebold... Please <a href="mailto:lrobeson@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">let me know</a>, thanks!! Would you advocate voting absentee since the electronic machines are still so sketchy? I got a request form in the mail that I can send back for an absentee voting form and it seems like it’d be a much better idea. Not that I like trusting my vote to the US Postal Service, but I’d rather them have it than Diebold…

Please let me know, thanks!!

]]> By: Jody http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Jody Mon, 08 May 2006 18:14:47 +0000 http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/#comment-142 I repeatedly hear news reports of "memory cards" missing. Originally it was over 70, and today it is still around 10. We need to frame this issue correctly. Those are "ballot boxes" that are missing. A memory card is a depository of voted ballots. This referral to "memory cards" instead of "electronic ballot boxes" is another way of framing the issue as just a mere technicality with electronic voting machines. I am sure that the public's reaction to missing "ballot boxes" would be much more reactive than to missing "memory cards". This is similar to the repeated use of the word "glitch" to cloak the repeated failures, defects, discrpancies, malfunctions that are inherent in any electronic forms of conducting elections. All these framing words are designed to minimize the impact or problems with these unreliable, inaccurate, and insecure machines. I repeatedly hear news reports of “memory cards” missing. Originally it was over 70, and today it is still around 10.
We need to frame this issue correctly. Those are “ballot boxes” that are missing. A memory card is a depository of voted ballots.
This referral to “memory cards” instead of “electronic ballot boxes” is another way of framing the issue as just a mere technicality with electronic voting machines.
I am sure that the public’s reaction to missing “ballot boxes” would be much more reactive than to missing “memory cards”.
This is similar to the repeated use of the word “glitch” to cloak the repeated failures, defects, discrpancies, malfunctions that are inherent in any electronic forms of conducting elections.
All these framing words are designed to minimize the impact or problems with these unreliable, inaccurate, and insecure machines.

]]> By: J. Robinson http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-131 J. Robinson Sat, 06 May 2006 13:15:07 +0000 http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/#comment-131 I live in Mahoning County (Youngstown) and we had the same problems. This is straight from our news paper... Poll workers in Youngstown, Struthers and Campbell were incorrectly trained last month about how to close polls on the new equipment, said Thomas McCabe, Mahoning elections board director. When the training error was discovered, poll workers were given the correct information but not brought in for retraining, he said. Poll workers in about 25 to 30 precincts, primarily but not only in Youngstown, Struthers and Campbell, had trouble closing the machines, McCabe said. Also, because of a delivery issue with the machines, many poll workers were trained without the new equipment, said Mark Munroe, the board's vice chairman. I live in Mahoning County (Youngstown) and we had the same problems. This is straight from our news paper…

Poll workers in Youngstown, Struthers and Campbell were incorrectly trained last month about how to close polls on the new equipment, said Thomas McCabe, Mahoning elections board director.

When the training error was discovered, poll workers were given the correct information but not brought in for retraining, he said.

Poll workers in about 25 to 30 precincts, primarily but not only in Youngstown, Struthers and Campbell, had trouble closing the machines, McCabe said.

Also, because of a delivery issue with the machines, many poll workers were trained without the new equipment, said Mark Munroe, the board’s vice chairman.

]]> By: dael4 http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-128 dael4 Fri, 05 May 2006 04:12:17 +0000 http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/#comment-128 RECOUNT the paper ballots let's see if it is a real win! RECOUNT the paper ballots let’s see if it is a real win!

]]> By: 48thRonin http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-127 48thRonin Fri, 05 May 2006 02:17:55 +0000 http://fraudbusterbob.com/blog/2006/05/05/primary-day-disasters/#comment-127 Can't anybody see the writing on the wall in November? Why don't they just make Blackwell the governor now? He probably already knows the percentage by which he will win.... Can’t anybody see the writing on the wall in November? Why don’t they just make Blackwell the governor now? He probably already knows the percentage by which he will win….

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