Why You Should Always Double-Check Your
Ballot: Kentucky Voting Machine Showed
Trump Vote As Vote For Harris
The Federalist,
by
Brianna Lyman
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
11/1/2024 3:30:34 PM
“I tried to pick Trump 10 times, it would not work.”
That’s part of the caption for a now-viral video on X showing a voter trying to cast a vote for former President Donald Trump. After several attempts, the video shows, the electronic voting machine captured a vote — but it was for Vice President Kamala Harris. Although officials have looked into the issue, such glitches are a reminder to voters to always double (if not triple) check ballots when casting votes.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 11/1/2024 3:33:55 PM (No. 1824186)
Kentucky must have picked up some of those Dominion voting machines from 2020 on the cheap.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
john56 11/1/2024 3:40:34 PM (No. 1824189)
Having worked elections, it is easy for people to press the wrong candidate on touch screen machines.
Most of these units allow you to review your ballot before it is printed. And once you print your ballot, read it one more time.
If it is incorrect, most if not all states allow you to spoil or cancel that ballot and revote.
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Have never used a "voting machine" so can someone help me out here? Does the machine send the info entered on the screen to a printer from which the voter then places the hard-copy printed ballot into a box for manual counting? Or is the print-out merely a receipt for the actual vote, which was electronically sent to a database for tabulation?
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I've heard (or seen videos of) hundreds of these stories now.
NOT ONCE has it been a flip from Harris to Trump.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 11/1/2024 4:12:31 PM (No. 1824205)
Here's how I believe it's done in Texas, #3: After showing your ID, you're given a blank ballot that you feed into a machine where you select your options. That machine then prints your votes, and you then feed it into a larger machine that records the county's votes.
However, the process varies from state to state.
I always laugh at the ladies who tell me how "secure" my vote is. Every time I vote, I tell them, "It's secure up until someone tabulates the votes. After I feed my vote into this machine, I have no idea what happens to it."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 11/1/2024 4:15:40 PM (No. 1824210)
I take note that these alleged 'glitches' ALWAYS favor the Dems rather that being random as you'd expect with actual glitch. These seem to be more likeva software feature.
If vote = Trump
reset vote = Harris
continue
There, I wrote a "glitch"
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
slipstik 11/1/2024 4:17:03 PM (No. 1824211)
I wish I could check my ballot.
I have to color in the box next to the names of who I want to vote for on a preprinted sheet of paper.
Then I take this sheet of paper to a faxy looking machine that sucks the sheet in and then I have to go home. I haven't a single clue what the machine has done with my "ballot". For all I know it wrote in nonsense names for every box I colored in.
I pointed this out to several of the poll workers and they looked at me with jaws hanging, as it I were the village idiot.
Finally, the lead poll worker comes over and tries to convince me that the faxy machine is regularly audited and checked and there is even a televised program showing this process.
I told her of my history as an independent system consultant for 30 of my 70+ years, designing and writing systems for some top 10 companies, and that her BS about audits was just that.
But ttttthat's all there is folks. It's the only way I could cast a ballot. I have no idea who my votes went to and the entire system is completely untrustworthy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 11/1/2024 4:23:10 PM (No. 1824215)
I voted this afternoon. Here in the free state of Florida, we have to show a valid photo ID, a voter's registration card, and our signature must match that on our driver's license. Only then do we get our ballots. We then go to a booth and color in the bubble next to our selections with a black pen. After that, the ballots are put into a machine that makes sure that they are filled out correctly and then counts them. Then we get a sticker and leave. Easy peasy and it took all of about ten minutes.
Voting machines are stupid. Go back to paper ballots and a black ink pen. No worry about hacking a paper ballot!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 11/1/2024 4:32:53 PM (No. 1824217)
Re #3.
In our system you are issued a blank ballot with only your precinct on it.. This is inserted into the ballot marking machine and you select and review your choices on the screen, then you select print ballot. Y our ballot prints and comes out into your hand. You then review it, and if correct you take to the ballot scanner and insert the ballot to be scanned and recorded. If the printed ballot differs from your choice, you report this, that ballot is 'spoiled' and you get a new blank ballot put into the ballot marking and you try it again.
Ballot marking is on one machine, ballot scanning (recording) is across the room on a diifferent machine. Ballots are retained inside the ballot scanner in case a recount is done.
This is Kansas, hope that helps. I was trained and have been a poll worker.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/1/2024 4:32:54 PM (No. 1824218)
Not necessarily nefarious, machines do go haywire from time to time. However - the fact that the glitches always favor the democrat is mighty suspicious and way outside the realm of random error.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 11/1/2024 5:05:12 PM (No. 1824237)
Anyone notice the glitches always seem to work in the Democrats favor?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kiwinews 11/1/2024 5:36:27 PM (No. 1824253)
Remember it's just a piece of paper UNTIL you put it through the scanner into the box. Only then is it an irrevocable vote. CHECK what the ballot marking device prints out. If it is not what you want, tell the scanner monitor or any poll worker. The poll manager will be happy to spoil the ballot and arrange for you to try again. It's part of a manager's duties!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/1/2024 5:38:16 PM (No. 1824256)
I voted last week, left the booth and walked a few feet away so someone else could vote. Then I stopped to check my ballot as the machine had printed it and one of the poll workers tried to hurry me over to where you put the ballot into the counting machine. My ballot was correct but she obviously didn’t like me checking it before turning it in. And I live in a red state which has always had safe voting.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zigrid 11/2/2024 9:06:19 AM (No. 1824493)
I did double check the machine when I did my early voting at my community center....there was no name on the machine...so I'm not sure what company had control of the counting...but...the poll watcher and I tried to make sure my vote was counted correctly....I don't trust the machines at all...and am looking forward to one day voting and paper ballots and voter ID next election...let's stay alert and plan for anything the democrats throw at US....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/2/2024 9:41:18 AM (No. 1824533)
Democrats: The folks who put the monkey in “monkey business.”
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LLAMA 11/2/2024 9:58:34 AM (No. 1824546)
It's funny how all of the "glitches" seem to favor Democrats, isn't it? Maybe it's time, after technology and "mail-in" ballots have destroyed the credibility of election results, to go to paper ballots and universal voter picture ID in person on Election Day only that are counted by hand.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/2/2024 10:42:29 AM (No. 1824588)
GET RID of the MACHINES, PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/2/2024 11:01:35 AM (No. 1824610)
I voted last week and gave the completed ballot to the poll worker who fed it into the machine. I couldn't tell how my ballot marks were tabulated. Didn't expect any foul play. But at least the machine didn't have the Dominion name plate on it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cor-vet 11/2/2024 12:33:29 PM (No. 1824684)
The rarest item in the whole world would be a voting machine that changed a Harris vote to a Trump vote!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 11/2/2024 12:57:08 PM (No. 1824709)
Until you get computers, ALL of them, EVERY **** ONE completely
OUT of the election process from top to bottom and end to end
you will N E V E R and can never be sure of an honest election !!
Paper ballots, PERMANENT ( at least 6 MONTHS ) of marking the
voter as having voted ( ink, dissolvable tattoo, large knot of the head
from a small hammer, cut on your arm or leg - SOMETHING to prevent
you voting more than once !!
Anything less can be compromised and your election is forever questionable.
I've spent my entire adult life working with and on computers, ( mainframes,
the kind you never see anymore but are still very much in existence - you don't
really think General Motors runs payroll with a PC do you ! ) and have come to the conclusion that, bottom line, they are the worst thing to ever happen to mankind !
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 11/2/2024 2:13:33 PM (No. 1824765)
A friend of mine was a poll worker and she said that if you are filling in the "bubble" with a black pen, if you go out of the "bubble" or if it is not completely covered than the ballot is discarded.
They don't tell you this when you are voting, they just show a picture of a "bubble" filled in.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NotaBene 11/2/2024 2:14:58 PM (No. 1824766)
Dominion recognizes Democrat cheating privilege.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 11/2/2024 2:22:47 PM (No. 1824772)
#20 - I've felt the same way since the dang machines first came into our work lives...let alone our private lives. I've been a computer Luddite since the start, kicking and screaming through each phase. I've learned the bare minimum to participate, and artfully avoided more "computer training" in every workplace. I also still send hand-written notes and cards to my family and friends, no e-card carp. I leave all the updates and file maintenance to TK. He's been a computer geek since the first Tandy. Bless his heart.
Remember the old commercial, "Is is real or is it Memorex?"? We can now ask that question regarding almost every aspect of our public life that we do not witness live. God have mercy on us.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 11/2/2024 2:31:04 PM (No. 1824779)
Reason to vote by mail, especially here in CA.
You get the 4-6 page ballot for your Precinct once you have requested it from RNC.
RNC has already sent you a mailing with pertinent questions marked. You return your ballot from your mailbox letting your postman know with the flag up. Two - three days later you get a ‘Thank You for Voting by Mail from CA Registrars’ Office.’
Thank You, Lara Trump!
MAGA
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 11/2/2024 2:51:24 PM (No. 1824788)
And most of all pray…
God is still Sovereign.
TBIYTC
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 11/2/2024 3:56:44 PM (No. 1824806)
I bet if someone ran on the platform that they would institute one day voting with paper ballots and with personal identification they would win their election in a landslide! Voting machines can be programmed to cheat and everyone knows it!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
kdog 11/2/2024 4:00:30 PM (No. 1824808)
Wish I could. In Erie PA we complete a paper ballot that gets fed into a machine and we never see it again. Our faith in a free and fair election process is to sustain us, I suppose.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/2/2024 4:18:57 PM (No. 1824818)
#20, actually it is even worse. Don't forget that Algore said he invented the internet!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
scottj 11/2/2024 8:35:58 PM (No. 1824940)
Democrats will always cheat. It's what they do.
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Many touchscreen voting machines show a list of candidate names, each with a checkbox on the left. Having become accustomed (on the web) to tapping or clicking on a checkbox to toggle it, voters have been tapping on the checkbox next to their desired candidate. However, it turns out that, in some systems, tapping on the checkbox has no effect. One must tap on the name of the candidate. The checkbox is not actionable. It is merely an indicator that the corresponding name has been selected. A user can tap repeatedly on a checkbox, trying to get it to respond, but nothing happens. In fact, while doing this, the user can inadvertently brush their hand against one of the names lower on the list, thereby selecting it. Now they try unselecting that name by tapping on its checkbox, but can't do it. Can you see how this is frustrating? Can you see how conspiracy theories get started?
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