NAACP claiming old voting machines incorrectly registering votes in Georgia
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/23/georgia-naacp-filed-complaint-voting-errors-some-counties/1741406002/
WASHINGTON — The Georgia NAACP filed complaints Tuesday with state election officials alleging that some voting machines mistakenly showed votes cast for Democrat Stacey
Abrams registering for her opponent Republican Brian Kemp.
The state conference of the NAACP filed the complaints electronically with the Georgia Secretary of State Office saying some voting machines in two counties, including Bartow and
Dodge, didn’t initially register the correct votes.
"We’ve experienced this before," said Phyllis Blake, president of the Georgia NAACP. “They ended up taking these old dilapidated machines out of service. The ones giving the problems.
They should have been replaced about 10 years ago." The complaints were shared first with USA TODAY.
Blake said she plans to file two more complaints late Tuesday involving similar complaints in Henry and Cobb counties. The complaints are on behalf of eight voters. Blake said she
plans to follow up with county election officials Wednesday.
"If warranted, our office will open a formal investigation on behalf of the State Election Board,'' Candice Broce, a spokeswoman, said in an email. "We always encourage voters to
reach out to our office if they experience any issues or witness any suspicious activity at the polls." One of the complaints is on behalf of Pamela Grimes.
Grimes said she went to a polling site in Bartow County Thursday and tried to select Abrams, but the machine marked the box for Kemp. Grimes said she tried several times to clear the
selection before it allowed her to vote for Abrams.
“I was not going to leave until everything was the way I wanted it,’’ recalled Grimes, adding she also paid close attention to other selections. “If I had not been focused, my vote would
have went for him.” Grimes said she has since warned other voters. “I’ve been telling people when you vote to pay attention,’’ she said.
Dexter Benning, a Democratic board member for the Bartow Board of Elections and Voter Registration, said he raised the concern with an election supervisor who told him because of
older machines there may be a problem with calibration.
The NAACP complaints are filed on behalf of African-American voters, but Bartow and Dodge are predominately white counties. The national NAACP, which has focused some of it
get-out-the-vote efforts in Georgia, has vowed to watch for voting concerns in the state. “The essence of our democracy is at stake,'' Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said in a
statement.
Its disgusting how just how awful our voting system is for supposedly being the best democracy in the world according to certain people.
This is what a rigged election looks like.
Is this around the same area which tried closing polling stations to stop minorities from voting? Because holy shit.
Do I need to go and dig up General Sherman? Because it looks like his services are required.
The south has proven over the last century and a half they can't be trusted to execute democracy faithfully. Federal oversight is required
christ this guy should be locked up if for nothing else but willful incompidence with intent to violate the vra
These wouldn't be surplus voting machines from the Florida would they?
Lincoln's greatest mistake was going to that damn play, his second greatest mistake was selecting Andy Johnson as his running mate.
I do wonder how things would be if Lincoln lived and listened to the Radical Republicans.
Second best 'flawed democracy' in the world according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index. Used to be a full democracy until a couple of years ago
It's also the same area in which hundreds of thousands of voters were kicked out of the system at the last minute for minor clerical errors. The person in charge of overseeing election security and integrity is also the Republican candidate, so...
Georgia is not a democracy. Election is rigged to hell and back.
Republican counter: it's just the machines being old and out of order, there's no conspiracy here
Counter-counter point: why the hell was this issue not caught before and how many other issues haven't been found yet?
i still don't understand what's the problem with just sticking to paper ballots. It's literally impossible to cheat that method when you have minimal oversight.
New machines cost money, and it isn't the party's fault that the voters can't click right!
Meanwhile, the new voting machines around here apparently provide no verification of how your vote was recorded unless you manually press the receipt button, meaning that it can be changed without your knowledge, and only when it knows it isn't being checked.
IIRC, voting machines have been doing this all over the country for the past few elections.
Some Voting Machines Are Flipping Votes But That Doesn't Mean Th..
All the more reason to replace them asap, unless its convenient for whoever not to replace them, or a good cover for tampering.
The issue is, people here wanted paper ballots back, and kemp kept saying it would be too confusing and cost too much money/staffing. Its almost like ballot security/accuracy isnt an issue for him 🤔.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/article220602105.html
Just two people this time but even one is unacceptable
This happens every time, multiple times, and the answer is always "the machines are just old and their calibration is off". Then why don't you fix it, or better yet, replace it. For a country that crusades for Democracy across the globe, we really don't care a whole lot about the voting process.
Turns out it affects both parties, voting straight GOP deselects Cruz and votes for no one. The Texas Secretary of State has known about this for years and done nothing.
https://abc13.com/4556377/
So if you vote Democrat it selects Cruz and if you vote Republican it selects no one
That doesn't sound like it's fucking rigged or anything
Vote suppression is now something Democrats take into account for elections like gerrymandering (at least in Georgia), there was some fucky stuff before that Alabama special election and Jones still won.
This is moving beyond vote suppression, this is vote rigging.
They're scared, and if early vote projections continue more people under 35 will vote in Texas then in 2016, 15% on day one of early voting compared to 8% in 2014
https://twitter.com/AdamBennettKHOU/status/1055213428950867969
Beto has 66 million goddamn dollars, he'll bring the best GOTV money can buy, I think he can do it
If anyone says the USA is the best at anything OTHER THAN incarceration and medical bankruptcies they're delusional
If I may drvil advocate ever so slightly: it's very likely this originated as a program error, the straight ticket option automatically selects in a specific party's slot for each item. I'm guessing that the option for senator specifically that has the wrong pointer value so Dem returns Rep, Rep returns null, and either green or libertarian probably returns Dem. The problem is there's absolutely no excuse for not patching the error within a matter of minutes of its discovery. The only reason this hasn't been corrected is someone doesn't want it corrected.
I've never understood how it can be literally impossible when the person/people counting can just count a paper for someone else
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