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Email I received a few days ago from the Texas Republican Party Ballot Integrity Task Force:
We have verified at least two instances in the state of Texas where an electronic voting machine did not correctly register the vote that the voter marked. In one instance, the person voted for Romney/Ryan, and the voting machine registered Obama/Biden. In another instance, the person voted straight Republican ticket, and the voting machine registered straight Green Party ticket. In both instances, the voter caught the mistake and reported it to the Election Judge, and the voter was able to vote the way they wanted.
We want to emphasize that we do not believe this is a deliberate mistake; instead, it is caused by a miscalibrated voting machine.
We want to emphasize that this is a very rare occurrence. However, even one wrongly registered vote is unacceptable.
Therefore, we are writing to advise voters to check their voting machine carefully before casting their votes.
If you find that your machine has not registered your vote correctly, do this:
1.Stop voting immediately. DO NOT CAST THE BALLOT.
2.Get the Election Judge and bring them to your voting machine to show them the problem.
3.Do not leave the voting location until you are able to vote correctly.
The Election Judge should immediately remove from service the machine that has made the mistake and should not allow any other voters to use it.
We also ask that you report the incidence to our Ballot Integrity Task Force either by email or phone. Tell us exactly what happened, and what the Election Judge did to resolve the situation. If the machine was not taken out of service, then we need to know that, too.
Please contact us about any other voting concerns or questions you might have as well.
BALLOT INTEGRITY HOTLINE: 254-300-VOTE(8683)
BALLOT INTEGRITY EMAIL ADDRESS:VoteToday@TexasGOP.org
The hypocrisy, it reeks.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)GOP = "Gang Of hyPocrites"
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)The irony. We would finally have Republicans wanting to go back to paper ballots.
UncleYoder
(233 posts)That's called the setup. Now when they flip all the votes they need to win, they can say "well, we told everyone to double check before hitting the vote key. The totals must be right."
rosesaylavee
(12,126 posts)tanyev
(42,568 posts)Our Secretary of State is GOP, and probably most county elections officials are GOP, so I don't know what they're worried about.
What I'm wondering is how many other states have a Republican Party Ballot Integrity Task Force?
denverbill
(11,489 posts)Between the hacked voting machines and the hundreds of thousands of other Democrats like me who have also voted hundreds of times, you really have no hope this year.
daligirl519
(285 posts)Vote early and vote often!
LisaL
(44,973 posts)RagAss
(13,832 posts)tanyev
(42,568 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)It's been pretty consistent.