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Title: Some early W.Va. voters angry over switched votes - Jackson County touch-screens switched votes, 3 residents say
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wvgazette.com
URL Source: http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200810170676
Published: Oct 18, 2008
Author: Paul J. Nyden
Post Date: 2008-10-18 11:20:59 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 254
Comments: 15
At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win. Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates. "When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain," said Matheney, who lives in Kenna. When she reported the problem, she said, the poll worker in charge "responded that everything was all right. It was just that the screen was sensitive and I was touching the screen too hard. She instructed me to use only my fingernail." Even after she began using her fingernail, Matheney said, the problem persisted. When she tried to vote for candidates running for two open seats on the Supreme Court, the electronic machine canceled her second vote twice. On her third try, Matheney managed to cast votes for both Menis Ketchum and Margaret Workman, Democratic candidates for the two open seats. Calvin Thomas, 81, who retired from Kaiser Aluminum in Ravenswood in 1983 and now lives in Ripley, experienced the same problem. "When I pushed Obama, it jumped to McCain. When I went down to governor's office and punched [Gov. Joe] Manchin, it went to the other dude. When I went to Karen Facemyer [the incumbent Republican state senator], I pushed the Democrat, but it jumped again. "The rest of them were OK, but the machine sent my votes for those top three offices from the Democrat to the Republican," Thomas said. "When I hollered about that, the girl who worked there said, 'Push it again.' I pushed Obama again and it stayed there. Then, the machine did the same thing for other candidates. "Why didn't she [the polling clerk] tell me before I even used the machine that might happen? And how many people, especially my age, didn't notice that? "Jackson County is a Republican county. I am a registered Republican, but I have been voting Democrat since the 1990s." Thomas, who brought his daughter with him to the polls, said she had the same problem. "After I finished, my daughter voted. When she pushed Obama, it went to McCain. It happened to her the same way it happened to me. If the poll worker knew that, why didn't she tell me before I even pushed the button?" Deputy Secretary of State Sarah Bailey said, "When we received a call about this, we immediately called the county and told them to recalibrate the machines to make sure the finger-touch [area] lines up with the ballot. "Sometimes machines can become miscalibrated when they are moved from storage facilities to early voting areas," Bailey said Friday. "We get a couple of calls about this each election year." Most voting machines in most counties do work properly, Bailey added. Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright said, "After we got a call from the Secretary of State's Office, we recalibrated the machine. We had already voted over 400 people with no problems." Voting problems occur when voters touch the screen, Waybright said, but do not put their fingers inside boxes for their candidates. Waybright blamed the problem on voters. "People make mistakes more than the machines," he said, "but I went in yesterday and recalibrated the machines. We are doing everything we can not to disenfranchise anybody." Matheney remains concerned. "Leaving the polling place," she said, "I wondered how many voters might not have noticed that their vote was switched on the machine." Reach Paul J. Nyden at pjny...@wvgazette.com or 348-5164.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
HAVA and the electronic voting machines killed any semblance of honest elections and insured the continuance of The Party.
You worms have already stolen 200,000 votes in Ohio and who knows how many more in at least 14 other States. Now you make a big deal out of a broken voting machine? You're pathetic.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
Anger over nothing in my estimation. They're both the same !
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. Henry David Thoreau
Shouldn't you be outside playing with your friends? Oh wait, the other kids will play with you won't they? Or are you the neighborhood geek and the one who keeps writing checks his mouth can't cache? Pull your hat down a bit more, the scars from your double lobotomy are showing and probably scaring the other kids.
Pull your hat down a bit more, the scars from your double lobotomy are showing and probably scaring the other kids." Be nice, menopause hasn't been kind to him, so try to show some more compassion then that. ;-D
Actually (You Leftist Dimwit)the phrase is "writing checks with your mouth that your ass can't cash" I can cash'em, and I've already cached'em and when it comes to freedom robbing leftists like you, I can't wait to bash'em Now, run off to your cell meeting you worm
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
weasel I'm worried about your menopause. After all, it's YOU not me that posts under cornflake girl. It sounds like you're having a gender identity crisis and support Obama because he's going to give you a free sex change operation. But don't worry, if Senator McCain wins, you can always change your name to cornhole guy.... In your case, it's more appropriate.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
You are amusing. Gender dysphoria? Just because I'm sneaky about account variables when I know I am going to not disguise the verbiage after the startup phase of doing returning bannee accounts? Well, I think that if I had such an affliction, I would just go ahead and switch roles to what felt comfortable. I don't stigmatize those people for being treated for a recognized disorder. Actually chuckles, you have been such a harpy since coming back to 4UM more often, I found the comment about menopause and you highly appropriate. I don't think you are feminine in the even least bit, but it's true you are never civil and usually act like a complete and utter asshole. I don't apologize for returning the lack of civility to little old you. I've met lamprey with more character then you have. Although they could never ever suck blood from a host half as well as you can in sucking the life out of any thread you blight with your august presence, so don't be offended. You're still the prince of parasites. I recognize your special talents.
Now I understand why they said your parents were so upset by your behavior. But brother and sister (your mom and dad) should be able to console one another and work together to help you.
Unlike you, I know who my Dad is.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
As I recognize yours as a thief, liar, traitor and overall wacko. You can't help yourself, can you. You obviously don't have the mental ability to think for yourself. weasel, you have endorsed, supported Every wacky screwy left wing new age idea out there. And your blind obedience to obama and the left is pathetic. If your messiah obama told you to show up for your daily bungholing, AND you had to pay for it, you'd show up with a smile on your face and the money in your hand.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
Flintlock's Dad: Nope, that's not him But I see it didn't take you long to find a photo of a naked homo on the internet. No doubt it came from your personal love archives.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
When you start using "Messiah" and thus taking HIS name in vain it is time to end the conversation. But to be honest, it doesn't surprise me when atheists and non-believers start to do this. It is a common defensive tactic among you.
Ah, a biblical smoke screen to allow you to cut n run. wrapping yourself in the bible is not going to save you. 1 - You know NOTHING about my religious beliefs 2 - My ancestors were building churches,and spreading the word while yours were still worshiping a pile of skulls and cow dung.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
(Edited)
"When I touched the screen for The Monkey Boy Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain,"
#3. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Some early W.Va. voters angry over switched votes
#4. To: Flintlock (#2)
#5. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#4)
"Shouldn't you be outside playing with your friends? Oh wait, the other kids will play with you won't they? Or are you the neighborhood geek and the one who keeps writing checks his mouth can't cache?
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#6. To: bush_is_a_moonie, (#4)
who keeps writing checks his mouth can't cache?
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#5)
menopause hasn't been kind to him
#8. To: Flintlock (#7)
(Edited)
"I'm worried about your menopause. After all, it's YOU not me that posts under cornflake girl. It sounds like you're having a gender identity crisis and support Obama because he's going to give you a free sex change operation."
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#9. To: Flintlock (#6)
#10. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#9)
your mom and dad
#11. To: Ferret Mike (#8)
I recognize your special talents.
#12. To: Flintlock (#10)
"Unlike you, I know who my Dad is."
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#13. To: Ferret Mike (#12)
Flintlock's Dad:
#14. To: Flintlock (#11)
(Edited)
#15. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#14)
When you start using "Messiah" and thus taking HIS name in vain it is time to end the conversation.
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