Re: [ronpaul-1665] Interesting story..

I have heard of many varied screwups. Doesnt surprise
me much...
--- Beth Deyton <[address removed]> wrote:

> I don't think my pal (and Blairsville meetup member)
> Brandi will mind my sharing her experience at her
> precinct in Fannin Co.  Here's what she had to say
> last night:
>    
>    
>   All the way to the polls tonight, I was thinking
> about the horror stories that I had heard about the
> machine ballots. Never having any problems of my own
> or never having any run-ins with someone that has, I
> was pretty confident that my vote would not be
> screwed. 
> Well, while I was waiting to get my ballot card, a
> lady in front of me had walked over and said that as
> soon as she put her card into the machine, it popped
> right back out. She said that she had not even
> picked a candidate. The lady assisting at the polls
> said there was nothing she could do about it that it
> counted as a casted ballot and that she was not the
> first one that had this problem today. 
> I was so mad and so nervous about taking a chance on
> this stupid machine. I just shook my head and
> started babbling something!! I think they could tell
> that I was mad. The sad thing is this probably
> happens to many,many voters and supposedly there's
> nothing that "they" can do about it. arghhhhh 
> 
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