early voting problems in texas?

[killed radio star]

not if you don't vote straight democrat, i guess:

this is taken from some livejournal, so please be sure to rip on me for quoting complete and total hearsay. still, caveat whatever the latin word for voter is.

Here's an important heads up ...

Yesterday a friend voted early at a polling location in Austin. She voted straight Democratic. When she did the final check, lo and behold every vote was for the Democratic candidates except that it showed she had voted for Bush/Cheney for president/vice pres.

She immediately got a poll official. On her vote, it was corrected.

She called the Travis County Democratic headquarters. They took all her information, and told her that she wasn't the first to report a similar incident and that they are looking into it. So check before you leave the polling booth, and if anything is wrong, get it corrected immediately. Report any irregularities to your local Democratic headquarters. Make sure you pass this along to your friends ... hopefully this is all over the airwaves by tomorrow ...

The Texas voting fraud is for real. I called the Austin office (Dem. Nat. Comm.) 512-637-1737 and they said that it has been happening a lot. They don't know why but the machines seem more "sensitive" this year and that every voter MUST check their summary as the presidential choice often rolls over to the republican choice if you vote straight democrat.

[killed radio star]

of course if you're voting straight ticket you kinda deserve it anyway

seems more like a bug than fraud to me, but whatever.

[killed radio star]

a post in the thread seems to have identified the problem:

But this is not voter fraud or a huge right wing conspiracy. It's human error. After people check the straight ticket box, they're taken to the first page of the ballot so they can vote on local issues. When this happens, people are hitting the scroll wheel and it's moving their choice for president down one.

People really need to stop overreacting about this (which isn't to say that you are, but I live in Austin and I've been hearing about this for two weeks. In fact, it was posted in another non-Austin specific community about 15 minutes ago.).

[Future Boy]

Originally posted by killed radio star
a post in the thread seems to have identified the problem:

That's a lie, Bush needs all the help he can get to carry Texas.

[BeautifulLoser]

Originally posted by Future Boy


That's a lie, Bush needs all the help he can get to carry Texas.

[spa ced]

Yeah I read a story about this happening to a fellow college student in my school's paper and I brought it up for discussion in my American Government class. I voted straight democratic but didn't have this problem. It's worrisome though for people who may not review their selections carefully. Texas is predicted to have a record 59% of the population turn out to vote.