Ahem. I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
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?
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.
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...
"Nothing to worry about"? Do you know how many germs there are on that screen??
How about prison? I'd settle for prison.
Central PA? Is that near Columbus?
The penis mightier.
"Nothing to worry about, you voted for Romney with every button press! He thanks you!"
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?
No, I think they "calibrated" it just the way they wanted it.
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.
Voter: Cast ballot for Barack Obama Voting Machine: <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=7qnd-hdmgfk" target="_blank"> I&#039;m sorry, Dave. I&#039;m afraid I can&#039;t do that.</a>
It would make her chest swell.
Did you try rebooting your machine? That&#039;s usually the first thing Tech Support asks me.
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.
It has all day to get noticed.
Did this happen in Ohio? Because I bet it happened in Ohio. Or Florida. But probably Ohio.
<i>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s nothing to worry about, everything will be OK.&rdquo;</i>
You vote for Obama, the machine votes for Romney. You can&#039;t explain that.
does anyone know of any &#039;day of&#039; activities (besides voting obv)? i&#039;m spoiling for a fight (with votes!) with a bagger, but i&#039;m in IL...