Comments on: Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) has trouble voting.

By: Rep. Jean Schmidt has trouble voting. | Election Reporter

Rep. Jean Schmidt has trouble voting. | Election Reporter — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:52:14 +0000

[...] 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… [...]

By: beltman713

beltman713 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:44:04 +0000

“Ballots will be scanned later.” Sure they will, Ken Blackwell will do the scanning himself.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:29:49 +0000

Hey, 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)

By: iandanger.com » 11-7-2006, 12:17 PM. Election Day!

iandanger.com » 11-7-2006, 12:17 PM. Election Day! — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:35:24 +0000

[...] *update 2* Jean Schmidt, a Republican from Ohio didn’t get to vote due to machine failure. [...]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:49:23 +0000

Maybe her heavenly gaze was too much for the voting machine to handle.

By: aguafiero

aguafiero — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:42:36 +0000

There’s an old song by The Pretenders that says it all……

“Hey, ho, way to go
Ohio……….”

By: Blue_in_a_Red_State

Blue_in_a_Red_State — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:37:47 +0000

#54 – Can you say Blackwell?

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:37:02 +0000

Schmidt 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!

By: Mama

Mama — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:34:31 +0000

A 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?!?

By: aguafiero

aguafiero — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:31:20 +0000

#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…..

By: Republicans are the fear and smear party

Republicans are the fear and smear party — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:29:33 +0000

#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.

By: wisedup

wisedup — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:28:44 +0000

Jean….3,000 soldiers won’t get to vote…their dead.

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:27:00 +0000

LOL 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!

By: Roafer

Roafer — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:22:35 +0000

We 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.

By: Dave von Ebers

Dave von Ebers — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:22:13 +0000

Maybe Jeanie shoulda asked that Rep. Murtha for some help workin’ that voting machine …

By: Democrat in District 2

Democrat in District 2 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:12:44 +0000

As 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?

By: Karim

Karim — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:11:14 +0000

oh this is delicious. “Meanie Jeanie” can’t vote…I gues what goes around comes around.

By: JaneESchneider

JaneESchneider — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:10:08 +0000

Is she still wearing her star-spangled cheerleading outfit?

By: ggibson

ggibson — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:06:06 +0000

I 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 …

By: Rolling Stone National Affairs Daily » Blog Archive » Vote Troubles? Tell Us Your Tales of Woe

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:58:59 +0000

[...] 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. [...]