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Related: About this forumTexans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices
By WILL WEISSERT today
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Some Texas voters are complaining that machines flipped their straight-ticket selections to the other party in key races during early voting, especially the much-watched Senate battle between Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto ORourke.
The secretary of states office said Friday that there have been reported issues with Hart eSlate voting machines, which are used in around 30 percent of counties statewide and feature a wheel for selecting candidates and buttons to move from screen to screen. But it says they are caused by voters themselves and often occur when they complete and submit ballots too quickly.
The Hart eSlate machines are not malfunctioning, the problems being reported are a result of user error usually voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering, said Sam Taylor, spokesman for the office of Secretary of State Rolando Pablos, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
The secretary of states office said Friday that there have been reported issues with Hart eSlate voting machines, which are used in around 30 percent of counties statewide and feature a wheel for selecting candidates and buttons to move from screen to screen. But it says they are caused by voters themselves and often occur when they complete and submit ballots too quickly.
The Hart eSlate machines are not malfunctioning, the problems being reported are a result of user error usually voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering, said Sam Taylor, spokesman for the office of Secretary of State Rolando Pablos, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
https://apnews.com/a8825810d10441f2ad828e95d6851d55
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Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Oct 2018
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)1. Oh, so that's why they flip from Democrat to Republican.
BTW, they just described machine error not human error.
irresistable
(989 posts)4. I hate those machines....you have to be so careful.
I never vote straight ticket, though....I always go through each race individually. Even then, it is so easy to toggle the vote back and forth. It is definitely not an intuitive design.
msongs
(67,417 posts)2. if the voter can "cause" this then are are defective for allowing such things to happen and
should be designed so voters cannot do those things. doh!
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)3. Paper ballots counted by computer and 100% audited by hand
The totals should match, computer count versus hand count
Susan Calvin
(1,646 posts)5. Yep. nt