Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) has trouble voting.
By on Nov 7th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) has trouble voting.
The ballot scanners are broken. Watch it:
Officials say the uncounted votes “will be scanned later.”
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Classic. Jean Schmidt is the representitive who hates our troops, right? Yes, yes, that's right, she thinks our veterans are cowards.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:18 amMean Jean and her Karma.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:19 amBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
November 7th, 2006 at 10:19 amGod does not want her vote.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:20 amJUST WAIT.. AFTER PRESSING FOOR THE(oops)se touchscreen optacal scanner voting machines, when the rethuglicans LOSE they will scream foul, saying that the machines must have malfunctioned...
November 7th, 2006 at 10:23 amJUST WAIT.. AFTER PRESSING FOOR THE(oops)se touchscreen optacal scanner voting machines, when the rethuglicans LOSE they will scream foul, saying that the machines must have malfunctioned...
November 7th, 2006 at 10:23 amJUST WAIT.. AFTER PRESSING FOOR THE(oops)se touchscreen optacal scanner voting machines, when the rethuglicans LOSE they will scream foul, saying that the machines must have malfunctioned...
November 7th, 2006 at 10:23 amMust be that evil aura around her, that cold dark blackhole of a heart sucking the demonic energy from the evil diebold machines that caused them to crash. Let me email this story titled Drudge; Satanic Conspiracy -- Liberals put spell on Diebold machines"
November 7th, 2006 at 10:24 amIt should be in the MSM by tommorrow/
dang lag. sorry about that.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:29 amShe's just complaining to make it look good since she knows her party is responsible for the voting machine malfunctions. I predict that republicans will be staying in voting booths for hours at a time pretending to be confused so that democrats can't vote. A new Roverian scumbag tactic.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:31 amI can't believe these companies can make ATMs that accurately dispense cash and interact with banking systems that are across the world, but they can't make a machine that has to work once a year.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:31 amA good omen.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:32 amI voted earlier today in central OH... New electronic touchscreens, but they had a receipt printer scrolling by an open window so that you could see your every on-screen action (not just your vote) was recorded.
My one beef was that there were three of these machines with their power cords daisy chained from one to the other - the last one in line was plugged into a 3-prong to 2-prong groundlift which was plugged into one of those crappy, thin, two-wire brown 6' extension cord... which went right into the wall.
Its raining here in ohio, and with all the money spent on these machines we can't get a decent surge suppressor... At least it's not civilization ending.
/2 cents
November 7th, 2006 at 10:33 amRichard, with any luck in a year or two we'll be able to rent 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jean'. I see that like Bette Davis in the original movie, Jean has the bow tied to her ass.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:35 amOops. Hey Jean, wanna call your crooked buddy Blackwell? Maybe he can help you out!
November 7th, 2006 at 10:35 amAmerica's Least Wanted
She may be a nasty piece of work, but I'm not celebrating.
If it's this f*cked up in GOP districts of Ohio, I hate to think how bad it is in Dem strongholds.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:36 amRichard, with any luck in a year or two we'll be able to rent 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jean'. I see that like Bette Davis in the original movie, Jean has the bow riding on her ass.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:37 amCouldn't happen to a nicer coward.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:41 amWhy does Jean Schmidt hat our troops?
she has a built-in excuse for when she loses. how annoying is it going to be when all repubs who lose today complain of 'stolen elections'?
November 7th, 2006 at 10:44 amGee why would the Repubs instantly think of stolen elections?
November 7th, 2006 at 10:52 amHow about NJ?
November 7th, 2006 at 10:55 am20 pgw
And if she complains, Democrats can use the same "you're a sore loser" response they got from the Republicans. And refer her to the Secretary of State, her friend and fellow Republicanut Ken Blackwell, who is supposed to be in charge of Ohio elections.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:55 amMy brother-in-law lives in a small town East of Phoenix. Checked that he was registered online before going to the polling place. Got there and was told that he wasn't registered. He used a provisional ballot. Is the fix in again?
November 7th, 2006 at 10:58 amDaryll - Is this a message from god (Crom, of course) that poor Jean is not favored with his grace?
November 7th, 2006 at 10:59 amWhoops. My link didn't work! http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3134
November 7th, 2006 at 11:01 amI truly hope the Repugs don't whine about fake stolen election like the Dems do everytime they lose. It is just in bad taste.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:03 amMaybe the Diebold machine mistakenly thought she was a Democrat. Oh well, she then perched her mummified quim atop her broomstick and flew back to D.C
November 7th, 2006 at 11:06 amI can’t believe these companies can make ATMs that accurately dispense cash and interact with banking systems that are across the world, but they can’t make a machine that has to work once a year.
Comment by Dave M. — November 7, 2006 @ 10:31 am
Good point.
If, say, Dell and Gateway had the same percentage of failure with all the computers they build and sell, they'd have been out of business a long time ago.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:06 amAlready heard callers from Ohio on Air America this morning saying they have had problems -- long lines, machines down. Crossing my fingers though. At least NH was smart enough to stick to optically-scanned paper ballots. I don't understand why we have to go all electronic in some places. What's wrong with filling in an oval on a paper ballot and sticking it through a machine to be read? Works for us just fine. If it's good enough for SATs why not for voting?
November 7th, 2006 at 11:07 amShe is lying.. pretending to see her vote go from D to R, the first case ever of that...
so when she loses by 20 % she can say WAAAAA!
just like 1/2 of the other R's are going to do.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:09 amThe same thing happened to me in a north Mpls precinct this morning. I don't feel very confident that my votes 'will be counted later'. I'm deciding whether or not to report it - thoughts?
November 7th, 2006 at 11:13 amBoo Freakin Hoo, the slandering cut and run coward.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:20 amI'm sure this has been hashed out elsewhere, but I was pretty sure the Constitutution left the "manner and place" of holding elections up to the states. Did the HAVA mandate that states buy these electronic voiting machines? And whatever it might have mandated, wouldn't it have violated the Constitution to dictate to the states "the manner" in which to hold elections? Or doid they get around that by saying If you want money for new machines, you have to buy one of these electronic dealies or you don;t get the money? How did they get around the Constitution? I'll check back later.
Don't for get to vote!
November 7th, 2006 at 11:27 amIs anyone else having trouble getting the page to load properly?
Ahia has some of the worst reps in the nation. With a little luck we'll be rid of 3 of them pryce, schmidt and chabot
November 7th, 2006 at 11:30 amThis is exactly how Elections will be stolen...
November 7th, 2006 at 11:31 amLooks like she is mistakenly submitting her itemized reimbursement invoice instead of her ballot and it keeps getting rejected.
1. Hairline staples $34.00
November 7th, 2006 at 11:31 am2. Crueella Cream $72.00
3. Being a laughing stock on national TV = Priceless
#37...ROTFLMAO!!!
November 7th, 2006 at 11:41 am#14
Thank you, as always, for your enlightened 'big picture' awareness of the world we live in... I can clearly picture the jury rigging mentality which can arise when stress and fear of losing control are present.
A very cheerful environment at the fire hall this morning at 7:00 am as I arrived to vote.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:43 amThe ladies weren't quite ready for the large group who were already backed up out the door. They soon began putting up more of the cardboard box voting stands, as one of them said: "We have never had so many people here at 7 o'clock before!"
To which one gentleman exclaimed: "Regime change!"
The echoes and "amens" and chuckles set the tone for my day!
39 aguafiero
Great story. Good thing the U.S. gestapo wasn't there to take away the "regime change" gentleman for "soliciting votes" at the polling station!
November 7th, 2006 at 11:48 amIn Indiana this morning there have been many problems from the "cards" for the machines being programed wrong... to inspectors not showing up at the polls... to machines not being turned on at all because the poll workers "didnt have time" ... as reported in local news.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:51 amThe problem is that E-voting is so screwed up that no matter which side wins, the other will cry foul. I hope that no one was thinking this election was going to end soon.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:55 am[...] Republican Rep. (Mean) Jean Schmidt tried to scan her ballot this morning — but (as you can see from this video) the machines at her precinct were on the fritz. [...]
November 7th, 2006 at 11:58 amI just dont understand how Diebold can get the kind of money they got for this and cant get it right. I make software... if I got many millions it would be right ... most apps dont cost anywhere NEAR millions and those voting apps are extremely simple apps compared to the stuff I make... rediculous ... tax payers getting the shaft once again like the $10,000 hammers ...
November 7th, 2006 at 12:06 pmIs she still wearing her star-spangled cheerleading outfit?
November 7th, 2006 at 12:10 pmoh this is delicious. "Meanie Jeanie" can't vote...I gues what goes around comes around.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:11 pmAs a resident of the district (actually the same precinct), I'm surprised it didn't backfire for the minute population of us Democrats. But then Jean Schmidt is so frigid and evil, children weep around her, why wouldn't the ballot scanners fail?
November 7th, 2006 at 12:12 pmMaybe Jeanie shoulda asked that Rep. Murtha for some help workin' that voting machine ...
November 7th, 2006 at 12:22 pmWe need to go back to paper ballots. Simple but it won't happen anytime soon with the plutocrats taking money from those that own them. But we need to go back to paper ballots, these e-voting machine are a pathetic farce.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:22 pmLOL I doubt those votes will ever be counted! GOP and Karl Rove have decided to swindle the election and they do not care if anyone notices, because they control the judicial system and the Supreme Court too!
November 7th, 2006 at 12:27 pmJean....3,000 soldiers won't get to vote...their dead.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:28 pm#44...Diebold is a republican operative so they did get it right. Their machines have done everything they were supposed to do including breaking down and switching votes.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:29 pm#40
Thanks, though when I signed in, my name was the only one on the sheet I could see which had this little box with the letters ID in it.
I aked the election worker what that was, and she said,"Oh, that means you have to show me some ID, um, um can I see your ID?"
(point of reference, this a very small town, and we all know everyone.......)
Is that you again, Domestic Surrveilence Director Admiral Poindexter? Put me on a list, did 'dja? Trying to stir up trouble here in the 'hood?
Just 'cause I post on progressive forums?
And you don't like it cause I remember you from Nixon's cabinet and your trial and conviction...
Yeah, well, all your buddies like Rumpsfelt and Chainy who slipped thru the cracks back then and have been galivanting around America and Iraq and the Middle East and South America, are coming to the end of their own ropes. Won't be long before they'll come looking for work and a dark corner with you down there in the bowels of the Hexagon.....
November 7th, 2006 at 12:31 pmA friend of mine in Hartville just said that a district in her polling place had 3 machines and one of them was broken. Her district had 8 machines that work, but their ballot is 13 pages long this year. What's up with Ohio?!?
November 7th, 2006 at 12:34 pmSchmidt has been told to say she had problems voting, so Karl Rove can claim the glitches and fraud do not just favor the Republicans, but actually 99% does favor the GOP!
November 7th, 2006 at 12:37 pm#54 - Can you say Blackwell?
November 7th, 2006 at 12:37 pmThere's an old song by The Pretenders that says it all......
"Hey, ho, way to go
November 7th, 2006 at 12:42 pmOhio.........."
Maybe her heavenly gaze was too much for the voting machine to handle.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:49 pm[...] *update 2* Jean Schmidt, a Republican from Ohio didn’t get to vote due to machine failure. [...]
November 7th, 2006 at 2:35 pmHey, I'm ok with electronic voting machines, as long as there is:
- open source operating system and software MANDATED for both the voting machine and the tabulators. This is just the right of citizens to inspect the voting process
- open design hardware MANDATED. Same as above, plus it would make the sourcing more competitive - saving taxpayer dollars
- backup electricity generation at the voting site
- paper record / receipt for the voter, and a paper by machine detail and summary (just like your old fashion switch and lever voting booths)
- adequate poll worker training
- an adequate supply of absentee paper ballots when all else fails.
Also, please, if the tabulator generates a negative vote count for a candidate from a polling place, please don't add the negative number to the total for that candidate. Either declare the ballot spoilt or recount the ballots (see paper trail item above)
November 7th, 2006 at 4:29 pm"Ballots will be scanned later." Sure they will, Ken Blackwell will do the scanning himself.
November 7th, 2006 at 6:44 pm[...] November 8, 2006Rep. Jean Schmidt has trouble voting. JUST WAIT.. AFTER PRESSING FOOR THE(oops)se touchscreen optacal scanner voting machines, when the rethuglicans LOSE they will scream foul, saying that the machines must have malfunctioned… [...]
December 10th, 2006 at 1:52 pm