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[SalmonGod]

Yeah, she's a write-in in Indiana.

Edit:

Didn't take long for little gems like these to start popping up today.

[Reelya]

Apparently it wasn't a calibration issue, as clicking below Obama voted for Jill Stein perfectly.

The ideal outcome would be if every machine in the USA was rigged like this and every single Obama voter said "screw Romney, I'm voting Jill Stein if there's not other choice", and she was elected President.

Anyway I'm suspicious that there's any tampering with the machines. After all, only one party is claiming that the machine was rigged. Republicans 100% reported the machine as "fine". Clearly it's liberal bias at work, an Democrat envy at Republican's ease at using the machine.

[GlyphGryph]

Confirmed that the people at the polling center were, in fact, wrong, and my ballot will not be counted.

Joy. :/

I hope it's only spoiled for that one section and not the whole thing.

Blugh, this is why I went in, because I screwed up, and they just put it in the machine. I didn't know what to do.

[Nadaka]

Sad bro, that happened to me once when I lived in mississippi, my whole ballot was rejected on some technicality when they told me it would be fine.

http://www.facebookstories.com/vote

About a million people so far have told facebook that they voted. Seems like a fairly high turnout for this early if we assume that most people are not telling facebook they voted.

[Glowcat]

I voted. Yay Democracy!

Didn't take long for little gems like these to start popping up today.

Even I'm skeptical that Republicans would be that dumb about it. If more cases come out of Pennsylvania voting machines then I guess somebody was way too confident.

[GlyphGryph]

How many people bring a camera into the booth with them?

Just one machine out of a hundred, and you'd get a whole TON of votes with a whole lot of totally nonsensical "plausible deniability". Do half that in favour for the other guy and suddenly you've got near total deniability - after all, the "bug" is effecting people in both ways!

And individual Republicans, like individual democrats, can be pretty dumb. If this is the case, it's probably one programmers initiative - the only involvement of the Republican party was making things like this easily possible (which they have tried incredibly hard to make the case, that much is undeniable).

[Nadaka]

How many people bring a camera into the booth with them?

Just one machine out of a hundred, and you'd get a whole TON of votes...

You are technically not allowed to bring a camera into the voting booth. At the polling station I was at, we were instructed to turn off our cell phones as well.

Edit: Rather I should say it is illegal in many states, probably not all though.

In any case, I will never use an electronic voting machine. Paper Ballots are more likely to be counted.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Cell phones weren't even allowed in my polling place, though they didn't check and didn't bother anyone I saw with them out. And we were also using all paper ballots. So. There's that.

[Sheb]

Why on earth do they forbid cellphones from polling places?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Why on earth do they forbid cellphones from polling places?

Terrorism, of course.

[Zangi]

Why on earth do they forbid cellphones from polling places?

So people can't take pictures of/record shenanigans?   

[Frumple]

I'd guess the official reason is to prevent the things from becoming a disturbance. Some people can't quite get a handle on how to turn the goddamn ringtone off. I'd imagine there's some kind of similar limitation on, like, bringing a boom box into the polling booth or somethin'.

Now, if that's the de facto reason instead of just the de jure one... who knows.

[Grek]

Just voted. I would also like to lol at our voting registrar, Sharon Long, being the only person on the ballot for her office. And at Texas in general for electing voting registrars.

[Nadaka]

I feel weird for posting this, but oh well.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/06/judge-issuing-order-to-reinstate-booted-philadelphia-election-officials/

Are there any references for this from an actual news site?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Who The Hell Is Joe Biden wants to run in 2016.

CNN captures Empire State Building, NYC routs.