Comments on: Voting Problems in San Francisco? http://www.edrants.com/voting-tampering-in-san-francisco/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tito http://www.edrants.com/voting-tampering-in-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-4685 tito Wed, 09 Nov 2005 04:30:28 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=2316#comment-4685 Arnold has problems: http://kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=4091854 Arnold has problems:

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]]> By: honestly http://www.edrants.com/voting-tampering-in-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-4673 honestly Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:19:35 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=2316#comment-4673 Oh! The poor old ladies can't get the machines to work right. Oh, my! I feel soooo sorry for them. And what? My ballot isn't right? The machine spits me out? Again and again and again??? Well, those poor workers, all confused and caustic --- grabbing my ballot with what seemed anger, and questioning MY competence for filling out the ballot! My, oh my, oh my! And no receipt to boot! Only BUSH/Schwarzenegger backers would excuse this bullroar. Complain at 554-4375 now! Your vote doesn't count if it's not counted! Yogi Oh! The poor old ladies can’t get the machines to work right. Oh, my! I feel soooo sorry for them. And what? My ballot isn’t right? The machine spits me out? Again and again and again??? Well, those poor workers, all confused and caustic — grabbing my ballot with what seemed anger, and questioning MY competence for filling out the ballot! My, oh my, oh my! And no receipt to boot!
Only BUSH/Schwarzenegger backers would excuse this bullroar. Complain at 554-4375 now! Your vote doesn’t count if it’s not counted! Yogi

]]> By: DrMabuse http://www.edrants.com/voting-tampering-in-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-4671 DrMabuse Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:40:55 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=2316#comment-4671 It's very possible that she intended nothing by it. Often people are oblivious of the consequences or intent of their actions. And I'm not claiming anyone to be an "evil minion." It's the actions that are the issue here. None of this discounts that (a) she failed to give me a voting stub, (b) she quite visibly bent her head over to LOOK at how I was voting and then proceeded to tell me, "Are you sure you want to vote that way?" and (c) unmentioned in the post above, when the Eagle machine was malfunctioning, I asked if my vote could be hand-counted, to which Irena replied no. Frustrated, I fed the ballot into the machine repeated times until it went through. (Now is THAT legal? Denying a hand count option? I don't know, in light of some of the new voting machine overhauls. Someone might want to look into that.) It’s very possible that she intended nothing by it. Often people are oblivious of the consequences or intent of their actions. And I’m not claiming anyone to be an “evil minion.” It’s the actions that are the issue here.

None of this discounts that (a) she failed to give me a voting stub, (b) she quite visibly bent her head over to LOOK at how I was voting and then proceeded to tell me, “Are you sure you want to vote that way?” and (c) unmentioned in the post above, when the Eagle machine was malfunctioning, I asked if my vote could be hand-counted, to which Irena replied no. Frustrated, I fed the ballot into the machine repeated times until it went through. (Now is THAT legal? Denying a hand count option? I don’t know, in light of some of the new voting machine overhauls. Someone might want to look into that.)

]]> By: gs http://www.edrants.com/voting-tampering-in-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-4670 gs Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:01:08 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=2316#comment-4670 My ballot was rejected in a machine this morning, because I didn't vote for a "Second choice" for assesor. The guy asked me if my lack of a second choice was on purpose, so he could either hand me back the ballot or override the machine. That question easily could have been phrased as "Did you mean to vote this way?" so I don't think Irena is necessarily an evil minion. My ballot was rejected in a machine this morning, because I didn’t vote for a “Second choice” for assesor. The guy asked me if my lack of a second choice was on purpose, so he could either hand me back the ballot or override the machine. That question easily could have been phrased as “Did you mean to vote this way?” so I don’t think Irena is necessarily an evil minion.

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