More than 100 voting machines are reported to be broken across the city, the Daily News has learned. Apparently, the machines were broken when polls opened this morning -- they keep spitting out the paper tape that keeps the tally of the vote. It is the largest breakdown since we started using the new voting machines. Expect more on this in tomorrow's Daily News.
Anyone experience this first-hand?
Comments (3)
During the 2004 presidential election, I saw two machines closed because they were broken. I also heard, voters complain about three other machines, cause their vote was switching over to bush. The complaints were ignored by dems and republicans and then they told these people whose votes misregistered, they could not redo their vote. I was so angry, I complained to everyone. Not only were the machines defective, but no signs were put up in this huge high-school campus, till 10:00A.M. turning away dozens of voters.
I demanded the signs be put up, they were all on the janitors golf-cart. He had the nerve to say "we need four more years". What I want to know is, I expected this behavior from the republicans but why were the dems not protecting us.
I complained to every person involved with no results. I arrived at 7:30am walked the campus with the rest of the lost voters and did not leave till 11:00a.m. My husband and I knew the election was lost right then and there.
Posted by gloria L. Lederer | May 16, 2006 7:45 PM
Wow.
Posted by Wendy | May 16, 2006 7:52 PM
When I went to vote after work (around 6pm this evening) the women running my polling place told me both machines were broken. I had to vote by filling out a provisional ballot.
I looked inside the curtain of one of the machines and the tape that would contain the vote tallies was hanging out a slot at the top. The woman in charge told me it had been like that since they had set the machines up that morning, and she tried calling several different people about it, but no one could tell her anything useful or came to investigate.
Posted by Matt | May 16, 2006 11:02 PM