Recall the brouhaha over the 2006 Buchanan v Jennings race, where officials approximate 20,000 "under votes", and the ensuing lawsuit. The officials and the courts determined that there was no "fraud", so the results were finally accepted.
I talked to a co-worker who used those same machines in that election and he said that the Buchanan/Jennings (BvJ)choice never appeared on any screen. When he got to the last screen, that displays the voter's choices for review, the BvJ race was not marked at all. He had to scroll back to that page and try again. He found it by the fact that it was the only page where no candidates where displayed on the touch screen. Only the upper line and angle downward of the boxes for each candidate at the bottom of the screen. He said he touched the screen on one of them and saw a change in that area, scrolled forward to the end and saw that he had voted for who he wanted to vote for in the BvJ race.
I live in the same district, but different county, where we use the optical scan voting machines.
I never heard nor read one word of that situation throughout the entire year of the post election complaints and lawsuit.
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Recall the brouhaha over the 2006 Buchanan v Jennings race, where officials approximate 20,000 "under votes", and the ensuing lawsuit. The officials and the courts determined that there was no "fraud", so the results were finally accepted.
I talked to a co-worker who used those same machines in that election and he said that the Buchanan/Jennings (BvJ)choice never appeared on any screen. When he got to the last screen, that displays the voter's choices for review, the BvJ race was not marked at all. He had to scroll back to that page and try again. He found it by the fact that it was the only page where no candidates where displayed on the touch screen. Only the upper line and angle downward of the boxes for each candidate at the bottom of the screen. He said he touched the screen on one of them and saw a change in that area, scrolled forward to the end and saw that he had voted for who he wanted to vote for in the BvJ race.
I live in the same district, but different county, where we use the optical scan voting machines.
I never heard nor read one word of that situation throughout the entire year of the post election complaints and lawsuit.