Voting Machines Crash in Myrtle Beach, SC
EmailABC News’ Tahman Bradley Reports: A number of voting machines in a number of precincts in Horry County, South Carolina had technical problems this morning from human error in preparing the voting machines for the election, according to Chris Whitmire, a spokesman for the South Carolina Election Commission.
Nearly all of the voting machines impacted by the technical problems are now back up and running, Whitmire says.
The election commission believes that the problem was isolated to Horry County, home to Myrtle Beach, where there are 127,000 registered voters.
Voters in precincts across the county were told to use paper ballots and they submitted them successfully, said Whitemire. From what the state officials can tell, every person who tried to vote has been successful using the machines or paper ballots. That claim is being disputed by Republican candidate Sen. John McCain (Arizona).
The McCain campaign said Saturday that it heard reports of sites running out of paper ballots and people being turned away. Whitmire, however, could not confirm to ABC News having heard any such reports.
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You mean that something happened as the machines were being hacked to make the election come out to the predetermined result? Everyone knows that electronic voting machines are tools of the powers to sway elections their way.
Posted by: Schmo | January 19, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
History repeats itself. From the programmer’s mouth: How the 2000 election was fixed. . .
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Posted by: yohiel | January 19, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
See those ATM machines at the bank? See those optical scanners at the supermarket check out? See any problems with them? Any mis-scans? Any lost money? See that paper trail the cash register spits out?
You mean tot tell me that the same government that put men on the moon can’t come up with an honest, fair, accurate, and reliable voting system?The government is obligated to prove to the public that our elections are fair.
As of right now, the New Hampshire primary and recount are discredited and unrecoverable. Ballot boxes are showing up with evidence of tampering. New Hampshire officials claim that the 8-inch slits in the side of the boxes don’t matter as long as the seal on top is intact proves complicity. Yet history has shown how easily the seals can be removed and replaced, or in some cases simply faked. In one infamous case a driver delivering ballot boxes was caught with a pile of brand new unused ballot box seals in his truck, which allowed him to remove the original seals, alter the contents of the ballot boxes, then put new seals on them prior to delivery at the counting center.
Vote fraud it not only epidemic, it is open and arrogant. The vote-riggers don’t even care if we see them rigging the elections; they are convinced we are too afraid to ever do anything about it.
Keep getting the message out. Live free or Diebold!
Posted by: LadyHawk | January 19, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
Stalin said it best…it does not matter who votes for who….all that matters is who counts the votes…wide spread vote fraud has been discovered in MI and NH but you will not hear it on the MSM…….and of course nothing will be done about it…
Posted by: arthall33 | January 19, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
Other countries in the world are now reporting that the honesty and integrity of our elections is no better than that in Third World nations. How completely we have lost the concept of liberty that so many of our brave American men and women have paid so dearly with their blood and fought for with their lives?
If a government cannot PROVE the accuracy and honesty of the elections by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government’s dictates, pay its bills, or die in its wars.
Stop the world! I want to go back to 1776.
Posted by: Sweet Violet | January 19, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
Ahhh, the smell of election-rigging…what an intoxicating stench to the democratic process! It attracts candidates from the two main parties like ants to sugar. How best to prevent things like this from happening?? Get rid of electronic voting machines, and get the Gallup company to count the votes.
Posted by: shortnativetexan | January 19, 2008, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm
Unless you yell at your congressman, NOTHING wil change. Get off the couch and on the phone before they steal the next election… and the next one… and the next one…
Posted by: rw3 | January 19, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm
Not only do we have election rigging but we also have candidates squeezed out of the process. Congressman Kucinich from Ohio has been unfairly denied access to debates. Everyone is afraid of what he has to say because it will directly effect the pocket book of the rich. Will the poor and middle class revolt or will we stick our heads in the sand for another 8 years?
Posted by: Eve | January 21, 2008, 7:30 am 7:30 am
Our government doesn’t send handicapped soldiers to war, so why in the hell would they continue to use a voting system that has glitches? Because they are rigged !! When are “We the people” going to make this government do what they are supposed to do, hold them accountable for their crimes and make sure they are doing the job that WE pay them to do. We have the power to set them straight.
Posted by: Anti-Operation Mindcrime | January 21, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am
The election officials that are engaged in “stealing votes” are nothing more than common crooks. Their crimes should not be overlooked and every last one of them held accountable. I have the utter most disrespect for them. The Constitution is the most brilliant document put together by man and these people who work to undermine votes by whatever fashion are the lowest slime imaginable.
Posted by: Robert De Roos | October 21, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
The election officials that are engaged in “stealing votes” are nothing more than common crooks. Their crimes should not be overlooked and every last one of them held accountable. I have the utter most disrespect for them. The Constitution is the most brilliant document put together by man and these people who work to undermine votes by whatever fashion are the lowest slime imaginable.
Posted by: Robert De Roos | October 21, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
We have been aware of the questionable voting practices and unreliable voting machines for almost a decade now and nothing has been done to make our system a fair, honest or efficient one. We were once considered the greatest nation on earth … a leader in industry and technology, and now we can’t even come up with reliable voting equipment …. we really are pathetic. Our citizens have become so complacent that they accept anything and “stand-up” for nothing. Our ancestors would be so proud !!!!!
Posted by: sks | November 4, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am