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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:16 PM Nov 2012

Thousands report voting problems

Source: Houston Chronicle

Thousands report voting problems
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Long lines aren’t the only problems voters are facing across the country. Particularly in battleground states, reports of voting problems were flooding into vote-protection groups.

The Election Protection Coalition, comprised of more than 100 local organizations dedicated to protecting the right to vote, reported 53,000 complaint calls by 2 p.m. Eastern time.

Calls to “our hotline are spiking,” said one official with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, a lead organization in the coalition, ate 2p.m.

Many of the problems were coming from battleground states, including recurrent voting machine breakdowns and malfunctions in traditionally Democratic areas of Ohio including Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo.


Read more: http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/11/thousands-report-voting-problems/

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Mika

(17,751 posts)
1. "It's a disgrace, really."
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:23 PM
Nov 2012
WLRN Public Radio and Television
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Former Marine Pedro Wasserman told us: "It was much easier voting in such locations as Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, Germany and Spain than it was to vote in South Florida this year. It's a disgrace, really."

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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
3. What an odd coincidence that our voting problems are mostly in "battleground" states
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:27 PM
Nov 2012

and since I don't really believe in coincidences, it leads me to believe there
is another explanation; i.e. that entrenched GOP officials and operatives are
trying to steal another election, like they did in 2000 and 2004.

I mean, sweet Jesus, if we MUST have this ridiculous Electoral Collage system,
where essentially 4-5 states (and not the entire nation) get to decide who
our next President is, can't we at least insure that THOSE states have FAIR
AND CLEAN ELECTIONS!!!!

Is that too much to ask? I think not.

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)
9. Not just "battleground states" but traditionally Democratic AREAS............
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 06:43 PM
Nov 2012

of battleground states. Naw, that's not suspicious at ALL!

Yet I'm STILL reading some people on HERE saying that it's just one machine, it's a hoax, can't blame cheating for losing if you can't prove it, etc. All sorts of excuses TO EXCUSE REPUBLICAN ELECTORAL FRAUD! Now why would anybody faced with this kind of evidence, even if it's anecdotal, it's widespread, still want to denigrate people who worry about election fraud?

And a better question might be, why does the Democratic heirarchy not care about this electoral fraud?

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,840 posts)
4. Even if we win by a landslide, this shit has to be investigated and proscuted!
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:37 PM
Nov 2012

Would somebody wake up Eric Holder?

 

NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
7. I'd be shocked if anything at all
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 06:12 PM
Nov 2012

happens, beyond "superficial" investigations into the matter for public consumption.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
8. If you want to wake Holder, you have to tell him that a cancer patient is smoking pot
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 06:30 PM
Nov 2012

Nothing else ever gets his attention.

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
5. Maybe this time around it will finally become important for the US to examine how we vote!
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:45 PM
Nov 2012

We just have to stop this madness. Its time to figure out a national fail safe solution.

K&R, not because I particularly like what's happening but for more exposure...

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
11. Friend of mine was manning a voter-problems hotline yesterday...
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 02:55 PM
Nov 2012

Mostly dealing with Pennsylvania and, I think, New York. He said the calls were absolutely nonstop the entire time, and that every one of them that he received involved Republican-leaning pressure or intimidation.

StarryNite

(9,446 posts)
12. Something needs to be done...now!
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 02:57 PM
Nov 2012

I'm just so concerned that the ball will be dropped now that the election is over.

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