{"id":1940,"date":"2008-10-28T23:03:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T23:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-10-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T23:06:35","slug":"someone_tell_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"Someone Tell Me Why We Are Using These Things?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digtriad.com\/news\/local\/article.aspx?storyid=113185&#038;catid=57\" target=\"browser\">Miscalibrated voting machines in North Carolina<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Several early voters have called into WFMY News 2 with concerns about a voting machine glitch.<\/p>\n<p>\nAll callers reported that they touched their finger to the screen for the person\/party they wanted to vote for, but the wrong person\/party was marked.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne person reported trying to check the McCain\/Palin ticket, but Obama\/Biden was highlighted.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother person reported the exact opposite. They tried to check the Obama\/Biden ticket and McCain\/Palin was highlighted.<\/p>\n<p>\nGeorge Gilbert, the director of the Guilford County Board of Elections says, &#8220;If the machine was out of calibration, it could do that and that&#8217;s when the precinct officials need to stop, and put them on another machine or go back and try again.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately &#8211; in these cases alert voters caught the mistake before walking away. If you live someplace where they use touchscreen voting equipment, ask to see if you can vote on a paper ballot. If not, be sure to check the voter-verifiable paper trail. Do not automatically assume that these machines will count your vote as intended. <\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t say that because I think there&#8217;s some vast conspiracy to steal votes (yet). I say it because the machines are POS&#8217;s that shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to count the quarters in your kid&#8217;s piggy bank much less help determine who will be president next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Liberal is cranky that some places are still using DRV machines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}