burning_sticks wrote:Except 20% of the tabulators went down within minutes of the poll opening, some for bad batteries. Care to guess the way the districts with bad tabulators lean. Also another 300,000 ballots were found today was a report I heard.
There were actually two issues with the tabulators (I experienced one). First, some poll workers got locked out of the software because then entered the wrong password three times. Had to sit on the bench for a time out. Second, and the one I fell victim to, was that the printers at polling locations that printed the ballots (each is printed specifically for each voter based on his/her address) was not printing dark enough on the "B side" and so the tabulators were kicking the ballots back out as unreadable.
This second issue DID disenfranchise people. My wife went to vote and a guy voting at the same time had his ballot unreadable by the tabulator. The poll worker had no idea what to do (she should have dropped the ballot into the provisional box) and she just stood there trying again and again. According to my wife (who I trust with my testes) the voter eventually said "I gotta go to work" and left, without submitting a valid ballot. It's unknown how many times that happened though.
Also, in AZ, the system is set up so once you check in and verify your identity, if you don't get to cast a valid ballot, you basically cannot vote at another polling center (like one with working printers) because the system thinks you already voted (due to checking in at a prior location).