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Submitted by Secret Communiqué on Tue, 11/07/2006 - 9:25pm.
Voting Error
 

Skagit County. Ballots were printed without the legally required text describing initiatives. This was discovered only when a voter in Precinct 125 noticed it and reported it to the county and the Secretary of State. link.

Margaret Diane Hill: For the second time I have gone to Highland Terrace Elementary School to vote and been greeted with a broken Accu Vote Machine. The poll workers don't tell you it's busted until after you sign for your ballot. Then, after you vote you get to put it into a BROKEN machine that could have a waste basket in the bottom for all you know. HELP!!! What to do? I called the King County Voting precinct. Doesn't work. Last time they said they got 3 (THREE) broken Accu Vote MAchines in a row on the same day. Seems like a really convenient way to replace ballots with ones they like. Link.

Snoqualmie Elementary School in Snoqualmie and Mt. Si Senior Center in North Bend were closed and advised voters to go to other polling places. Link.

Atleast you're not in Texas: Former Rep. Tom DeLay, the disgraced Texas Republican, left behind a rare open congressional seat. But in that Texas district, according to the Houston Chronicle, "poll workers discovered that the wrong electronic machines had been delivered in at least four precincts, delaying dozens of voters and causing an undetermined number to vote in the wrong state Senate race."

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don't computers make everything better?

vote or die

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