What else is there to say but what it says here?
Jefferson County Voters Continue To Raise Concerns About Voting Machines
October 28,2006
[Excerpt]
Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican ticket.
Some of those voters including Lamar University professor, Dr. Bruce Drury, believe the problem is a programming error.
Saturday, KFDM spoke to another voter who says it's not just happening with straight ticket voting, he says it's happening on individual races as well, Jerry Stopher told us when he voted for a Democrat, the Republican's name was highlighted.
Well, maybe there is a little more.
UPDATE: See very practical action alert below.
ALSO: Important diary on the fraud vs. incompetence issues at TexasKaos and what to do about educating voters to overcome them.
[1] Why are there no reports of Republican votes being changed to Democratic? Or are there?
[2] Forget about the October surprise. October is over. This is the November surprise.
[3] If the Republicans do manage to steal the election, what happens next?
[4] Anyone care to troll-rate "fraudsters" now?
UPDATE: ¡DING! Non-fraud-based very practical action alert!
Let's accept the explanation below that this is a result of easily corrected user error that favors the incumbent Republican.
From this we get ALL YOU PEOPLE <STRIKE>IN TEXAS</STRIKE>, HURRY UP AND SET PEOPLE STRAIGHT ABOUT HOW TO USE THESE MACHINES!
If that sounds as if I'm shouting, you got my point.
Now get on it. Right now.
Feel free to troll-rate me for sounding mean and overbearing.
It's also a great reason for recommending this diary.
UPDATE #2 Let's do a voter education flyer! .
Get me some pictures showing how to avoid these kinds of mistakes. I'll put together a generic flyer in PDF and HTML (I'm a graphic designer) and send out a link to my contacts list along with the text.
People can then print the flyers themselves and distribute them. It will also inspire others to do their own flyers and publicity.
I can put this on PRWeb.com, too. This is a free press release service that becomes super-effective when you pay their modest upgrade fees.
Contact me at siegel [at] cafecancun.com to coordinate this.