I went in to vote this morning and when I got there, I chose to use the electronic machine because the line was much shorter than the paper ballot. I wanted to vote before I went in to work, so waiting in line wasn't much of an option.
I was issued a card and when I inserted it into the machine, the first thing that popped up was "Please contact a pollworker, Your card has been removed too quickly or inserted incorrectly". At this point I contacted a poll worker who told me I was doing something wrong. I made a fuss and finally another poll worker came over and realized that there was something wrong with the machine. I asked for a paper ballot and was initially denied because they said there was no way of telling if I had already voted on the electronic machine or not. I told them that it should have been obvious that I hadn't voted since I was talking to poll workers the whole time I was at the machine. After about 10 minutes of arguing, I was allowed to cast a paper ballot.
I hope there aren't many problems going on with these machince since they are easily hacked, and obviously don't work very well. I am encouraging as many people out there to vote with a paper ballot as possible or able to. I don't want to see any more election fraud.