Our right to vote! There is no reason for machines to be working improperly!

The governor of every state should mandate that every machine be tested and in proper working order and if they aren't then heads should roll! We should not be going through malfunctioning machines again. We all know that if one votes for a Democrat and a Republican's name pops up then something is seriously wrong, and it appears there is a reason for it. Guess we all know what that reason is!!

.. someone voting for the Republican and the checkmark popping up for the Democrat?

It ain't a machine malfunction. They have been programmed to do that.

I ALWAYS vote by absentee ballot....at least since 2000! I don't know how it works in other states, but here in FL one can vote by absentee ballot without giving a reason or being out of state. If you can, I suggest voting that way. Besides almost guaranteeing that your vote will be counted, you don't have to deal with long lines and all that.

That followed a corespondent who was early voting. It took him 3 hours and 15 min. He mentioned at the end that there were 2 machines, and they both went down shortly after the early voting started, and that is why it took so long. This was in heavily democratic south Florida. I rhetorically pondered if the machines in Northern Florida had similar problems.

responsible for the smooth running of the voting machines for the period of time of the outage; it being then open to them to sue Sequoia or Diebold or whichever companies were responsible for the supply of the machines. If there were two machines and one was faulty, the outage fines being halved.

A ruling in the UK permitted bank customers to charge their bank for letters they had to send - in the same way that the banks charge customers administration fees for correspondence sent to them by themselves. Why not charge the responsible authorities for wasting the customers' time by their inefficiency.

But that of course, assumes that the "malfunctions" would be permanently repaired on the spot.