https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/voter-intimidation-texas/
As Texas started early voting last week, reports of voter intimidation have come in from Dallas and other parts of the state.
Dallas county election director Toni Pippins-Poole said she has witnessed significant voter intimidation this year. In her decades with the county’s board of elections, she said she had never seen “this type of
mentality or aggressiveness or demeaning type of actions.”
Some of the behaviors included name-calling and interrogating voters waiting in line, Pippins-Poole said. In a closely watched election race all over the state, the Dallas News Report said voters were harassed in
Dallas, Mesquite, and Richardson counties.
In Mesquite, one partisan poll watcher allegedly looked over voters’ shoulders as they cast ballots and questioned them on their politics. Pippins-Poole says these types of voter harassment can especially affect
young, first-time voters.
Texas law states that any electioneering activity—behavior designed to influence a person’s vote—cannot occur within 100 feet of a polling place.
Sheeeeeesh
depends, I have engineers telling me to use the jank 30 year old chemical analyzer instead of the brand new hyper accurate one because they like the numbers from the old one better. I made the mistake once of analyzing a run from the old machine on the new one once and almost thought it was broken because the data was so choppy.
Never underestimate an engineer's ability to blame the operators when confronted with bad data.
The USA is no longer a democracy. Prepare for one-party rule.
You better bet your damn ass that if this were picking Republicans or No one instead that they'd be all over that shit
When I went to go vote. I was the only person under 75 there. And most of them were just staring at me angerly.
Wow, how dare you enact your right to vote!!
When I went to vote for some local shit a while back, there were two lines a Democrat/Independent line and a Republican line.
The Republican line stretched from the table where you get your ballet to the door, the Democrat/Independent line was 5 people long.
Lots of staring when I walked up to that now 6 person long line.
Wait. Is that legal? At my voting booth they prohibited talking about any political topics so close to the voting booth. But yours sticks you in line that shows the entire area what you are voting for?
You also get a different form based on your registered party!
Nope that doesn't sound exploitable in anyway.
Yeah I don't think people like him worry about industrial applications :v:
We at least have paper ballots, the issue lies with the fact that we put them into a machine that then doesn't give a receipt or even display what it read.
For all we know the machine could be shredding any democrat/independent ballots.
Thankfully, ballots tend to be pretty thick, and they'd have to have one mother of a shredder if you couldn't hear it shred one of THOSE things.
it looks like they have a paper trail though, so it's not as bad as it sounds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_India
that's exactly how it is here in Missouri, at least for smaller/more local elections. during the 2016 presidential election we only got one ballot though, i'm pretty sure.
Congrats, USA, on losing your democracy.
Our voting machines are a bit different, I think? Like you still fill out a paper ballot, and then submit it into a machine that scans your votes in.
What worries me is, the machine may not necessarily be programmed to read the ballot as it was written. What if some cheeky sleaze-ball decided "What if I altered the locations for vote entries in soft-ware? Now your 'Bernie' vote is actually a 'Cruz' vote, even though it clearly says 'Bernie' on your ballot! AHA!"
At least there's still paper ballots to go through for liability reasons, assuming they don't just chuck them all into a basement right away where they can receive flood damage. Or shred them right away.
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