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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:06 AM Original message |
Manchester Ward 5 |
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Tarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
1. cool, thanks for the info |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. Where's the damned link? |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Sorry about that |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:13 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. And how does an opti-scan machine transpose write in votes |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:17 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. I've just asked a semi-related related question down in #7. |
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Adelante (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. Thanks |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
4. Thank You BDDNH |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
7. are you enough of a local to know whether these "vote counters" who |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:17 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I believe it is done the same as here in Mass |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Yes, but how are the scanner totals from precincts added? I'm a little |
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riqster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:00 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. If the machines aren't connected, then |
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Tarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:36 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. yes, that is how it is done |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:22 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. If it's machine, then we have a major programming error... |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:30 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. That it's only cropped up in Ward 5 so far would indicate pollworker error |
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Tarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:32 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Vice-presidential candidates have always been on the ballot |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:56 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I did some research, Narckid, |
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Tarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:04 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. There can many reasons for inaccuracies, ratboy |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:14 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Most improbable? |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:17 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Actually, coding errors are neither improbable nor hysterical. |
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Tarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:32 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. That's the problem here, though |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:14 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I'm trying to figure out how the "vote counters" might have gone wrong. |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
36. You'd be amazed |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:32 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. Ballot w/VP candidates on it |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
12. That explanation makes no sense... |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:47 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. the article doesn't give as much detail as I'd like |
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Tarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Here's another; |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:34 PM Response to Reply #19 |
39. Some interesting ballots there |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Here's a copy of the ballot w/VP on it |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:50 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. you can't by any chance scroll that up a bit so we can see what |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Here... |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:05 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Great, thanks. |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:09 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. The ward 5 ballot |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:16 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Thanks. So looking at the ballot, the only races in the primary that day |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. They had a choice or Democratic of Republican ballots in the same location |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. The real reason |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. Oh, I thought you could take either ballot in spite of your registration |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 07:41 AM Response to Reply #31 |
47. I appreciate that. So, what had to have happened was |
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riqster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
20. I didn't see anything in the article about a cause |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. From Fahey's article |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. That's what I originally thought. If so, there must be someone there |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:26 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. The VP ballot |
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Tarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:42 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. I left it blank this year |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:48 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. I left it blank too |
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riqster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:28 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. Thanks. The earlier version didn't have that. |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
44. Looks like there might be a similar discrepancy with Amherst |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 05:06 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Small shifts |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 06:26 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Yeah, there must have been a lot of soggy ballots. |
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