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diogenez's avatar

"Nothing to worry about"? Do you know how many germs there are on that screen??

God Emperor Emeritus's avatar

How about prison? I'd settle for prison.

BarackMyWorld's avatar

Central PA? Is that near Columbus?

Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

"Nothing to worry about, you voted for Romney with every button press! He thanks you!"

Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

Exactly! This kind of problem happened in Guantanamo as well!

Voters are going to be confused by such confounding images, so we should eliminate such things. Perhaps a civil protection force, wearing some recognizable uniforms of, oh, I dunno, brown shirts, could carefully guarantee the elimination of such sources of voter confusion?

bobbert's avatar

No, I think they "calibrated" it just the way they wanted it.

bobbert's avatar

See Designer_Rants on GUI layout above.

The thing is, IF somebody did fuss with the software in such a way, they definitely wouldn't do it on every machine. If it appears random, it's much less likely to attract attention (see, poll worker in story).

Now, the behavior described in the article could easily be a touch-screen calibration issue, so it doesn't bother me a whole lot. The response of the poll worker bothers me much more.

Fitzgerald Chesterfield's avatar

Voter: Cast ballot for Barack Obama Voting Machine: <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=7qnd-hdmgfk" target="_blank"> I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.</a>

schmannity's avatar

It would make her chest swell.

Joshua Norton's avatar

Did you try rebooting your machine? That's usually the first thing Tech Support asks me.

Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

Holy Crap! You would think that the volunteers would shut that machine down immediately and show some concern. That video needs to be circulated now.

BarackMyWorld's avatar

Did this happen in Ohio? Because I bet it happened in Ohio. Or Florida. But probably Ohio.

Joshua Norton's avatar

<i>“It’s nothing to worry about, everything will be OK.”</i>

You vote for Obama, the machine votes for Romney. You can't explain that.

fuflans's avatar

does anyone know of any 'day of' activities (besides voting obv)? i'm spoiling for a fight (with votes!) with a bagger, but i'm in IL...