{"id":6567,"date":"2008-10-25T23:57:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T06:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2008-10-27T02:53:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T09:53:38","slug":"another-lost-obama-vote-on-an-ess-touch-screen-in-tn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6567","title":{"rendered":"Another Lost Obama Vote on an ES&#038;S Touch-Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ESS_IVotronic_failed_AnotherLostInTN.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The following report, of another Obama vote lost, comes from Nashville (Davidson County, TN), as did <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6540\">the similar one last week<\/a>. ES&#038;S iVotronic touch-screen voting machines failing again, harming Democrats each time. The same machines are failing in one county and state after another, are still in use, haven&#8217;t been impounded, and voters still do not get to vote on paper ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;thousands of attorneys&#8221; from Obama and the DNC are still <i>completely<\/i> AWOL. [<em>Note: See update at bottom of story.<\/em>]\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20081025\/NEWS0206\/810250366\/1009\/NEWS02\">From the <i>Tennessean<\/i>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Tracey Hudson&#8217;s voting attempt at the Edmondson Pike Library ended with her in tears. The machine malfunctioned and didn&#8217;t let her see the ballot, but a poll worker told [her] she had voted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was robbed,&#8221; Hudson said Friday.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;I hit the button to go to the ballot and there was a flash,&#8221; she said, adding that the screen went blank, then returned to the main menu. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t see the ballot to actually choose anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She asked a poll worker for help, but the person insisted she had voted and told her to &#8220;move on.&#8221; Hudson said she had been looking forward to voting for Barack Obama.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have we mentioned that the &#8220;thousands of attorneys&#8221; from Obama and the DNC are still <i>completely<\/i> AWOL?<\/p>\n<p>Quick links to our previous coverage, of similar incidents, in at least three other states, follows &#8212;  along with a quick list from experts about what <i>you need to do<\/i> (since Obama and the DNC apparently won&#8217;t) when\/if you have a similar problem with a touch-screen voting machine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><b><u>Recent ES&#038;S iVotronic Failures as covered by The BRAD BLOG:<\/u><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10\/18\/08: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6528\">ES&#038;S Vote-Flipping Seen in 2 WV Counties<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/21\/08: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6540\">Election Filmmaker Sees Own Vote Flipped From Dem in TN<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/22\/08: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6546\">Candidate Names Missing on Final Review Screens in SC<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/22\/08: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6547\">Votes Reportedly Flip <u>R to D<\/u> in Decatur Cty, TN<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/23\/08: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6550\">Vote Flips 5 Times From D to R in Another WV County<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/24\/08: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6559\">Straight-Party Votes Flip D to R in TX<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><b><u>What to do if it happens to you:<\/u><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call poll supervisors to observe the problem.<\/li>\n<li>Fill out a problem report.<\/li>\n<li>Refuse to vote on that machine.<\/li>\n<li>Request that the machine be taken out of service.<\/li>\n<li>Get a serial number of the machine if possible (may be difficult in many cases).<\/li>\n<li><i><b>Tell other voters in line which machine it was and that they should NOT vote on that machine!<\/b><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Report it to county\/town election office.<\/li>\n<li>Report it to the Secretary of State.<\/li>\n<li>Call local reporters and tell them the story.<\/li>\n<li>Call voter problem hotlines (eg. 866-MYVOTE1 <i>and<\/i> 866-OUR-VOTE) and report it.<\/li>\n<li>Contact bloggers and Election Integrity websites.<\/li>\n<li>Raise holy hell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And again, people, <i>please bring a video camera\/cell phone camera<\/i> when you go to vote so you can document these problems on video tape, and then upload them to <a href=\"http:\/\/videothevote.org\">VideoTheVote.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/YouTube.com\">YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/electionstrikeforce\/2008\/10\/what_to_do_if_you_see_voting_m.html\">VelvetRevolution.us<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/TrueVote.US\">TrueVote.us<\/a> for help in compiling these recommendations!<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 10\/26\/08:<\/strong><\/em> Alternet found the &#8216;AWOL&#8217; DNC\/Obama attorneys! Turns out they were working in secret! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6571\"><em>Details now here&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. 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The same machines are failing in one county and state after another, are still in use, haven&#8217;t been impounded, and voters still do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,123,122,71,166],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-boxer","category-dnc","category-election-2008","category-tennessee","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}