Dirty Tricks in Pennsylvania

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Dirty Tricks" We know who really won.......

By Christopher - Apr 23rd, 2008

If you were planning to vote yesterday in the Pennsylvania primary you had another thing coming as reports of voting machine problems in all of Obama's stronghold precincts. Several machines were malfunctioning in the city, leading one local community leader to allege "dirty tricks" were the cause.

Many residents trying to cast ballots yesterday found long lines and broken machines and intimidation across the region.



Six of ten machines were down at a busy Delaware County polling site. It took 103 people 8 hours to vote in Upper Darby, which is heavily populated by immigrant and first time voters. Many of those freshly-minted voters had difficulties using the six machines that still functioned. "Hell of a day for six of the machines to go down," said one poll worker.



In South Philadelphia, voting machines were broken at 4th and Ritner, smack dab in the middle of a Obama strong hold. "The dirty tricks have begun," said John Lucas, spokesman for the election board, who sees a conspiracy.





....more at the link

[anonymous171]

1. Fucking knew it.

There's a reason Rendell said Obama could win PA in the GE if he was the nom. He wasn't assesing the demographics, he was giving Obama permission.

[EFerrari]

2. K&R

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

11. will y'all help spread the word about this thread and recommend it too?

This guy Christopher who documented this did an excellent job.

I posted it to comments at BradBlog, but someone should email him.

[EFerrari]

12. I will send this out to my network. n/t

[dana_b]

16. I forwarded it on to some networks, doubt they'll care BUT we should try. n/t

[EFerrari]

18. I meant, to all the people on my email lists.

They'll do much better than any commercial outlet. :hi:

[dana_b]

25. God, I'm dense.

:dunce:
my "network" is so un-political. I'm the crazy liberal of the group.

[Veilex]

126. There are allot of avenues we can take on this...

Do as I have done, send feedback to the news networks asking why they aren’t covering the PA voter issues. This really needs to be brought to light...but we have to demand that the MSM own up to its responsibilities.

Also be sure to pass word along to any democratic radio stations, blogs and other websites so they may help pursue this.

We can’t let another election be stolen...by anyone.



(NBC) use the pull down menu to pick which show you want to provide feedback to (I suggest all the news shows).
http://www.nbc.com/Footer/Contact_Us /


(ABC) There is a drop down menu to select a show or category. Select all the ones you feel are applicable.
http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html?lid=ABCCOMGlobalF...


(CBS) same as the above two, there is a menu to allow you to send comments to numerous shows
http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.sh...

[dana_b]

3. God, I wish that I was surprised.

And no, I'm not blaming Hillary, but why is it mainly in African-American heavy districts that this happens? Florida in 2000, ohio in 2004, and now this.

edit* okay, well maybe I was wrong.

"Because of the expected large turnout, election judges' difficulty getting machines started at a polling place in North Braddock and another in the city's Banksville section prompted some concern.

At these two sites, election judges, clerks and inspectors, all nominally paid volunteers, initially were unable to print out verification that the voting machines had been set at zero. A technician was dispatched to each location and helped to properly set up the machines,upon further inspection machines had been manipulated and set with 500 to 1500 votes calibrated to Clinton."

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

9. no emergency paper ballots either, even though the state requires them

Voter Action filed a lawsuit to keep the polling places open 2 more hours,
but the judge refused.

Its RARE that polling places are not kept open in cases like this.
VERY RARE.

[Muttocracy]

23. that's what I was wondering - hell, we can't vote if there's a power outage?

break out the paper and markers!

[Blue State Bandit]

65. I saw that in South Philly too.

But in light of the down right despicable campaign waged against Senator Obama by the Clinton campaign in Pennsylvania, and what I perceive as voter suppression in the Philadelphia area, including many long time Democrats that I met during my GOTV adventures in the predominantly African-American wards of South Philadelphia west of Broad Street who were wiped from the voter registration roles (three of whom I met gathered around the scene of a shooting at a Mifflin st. bar), and the lack of provisional ballots at these voting locations...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=123140

[gateley]

44. WHAT? Was there no news coverage of this?

A technician was dispatched to each location and helped to properly set up the machines,upon further inspection machines had been manipulated and set with 500 to 1500 votes calibrated to Clinton.

[burythehatchet]

4. I have never, for one minute, thought that the primary results are an accurate

reflection of the candidates' support. We're all being played.

[defendandprotect]

85. Agree --- the primaries are simply a way to get rid of the most liberal/progressive candidates --

[maryallen]

137. RIGGED is the word I would use to describe this election and ...

the 2000 election and

the 2004 election,

and probably some others in-between.

[Eurobabe]

5. Fuck these electronic voting machines NOW!!

:mad: :mad: :nuke:

[WillyT]

6. Eddie Rendell...

I hope they get proof of this, and arrest your unDemocratic ass!

:mad:

[truedelphi]

130. You would think the little horns on his odious head would

Offer a warning as to how he operates.

Bad enough that he basically bribes some of the super delegates who hold office in PA.

"You give your vote up for Hillary and not for the "cheerleader" or the district you govern won't get any funding from the governor's office." Rendell decrees.

[bigbrother05]

7. Fucking, Rendell

he has been on the list for VP

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

8. the trick with the machines - send too few, send broken ones to polling places

then people flat out can't vote.

With paper ballots/optical scanners you can vote as long as you have a ballot
and a flat surface.

North Carolina has mostly optical scan, but in the 20 counties (of 100) that have
touchscreens, our state requires those counties to have 1 machine per 250 voters.

Since we also have early voting (about 2 1/2 weeks long) everyone has plenty of
opportunities to vote.

AND we now have same day registration during early voting.

Indiana is going to be the next voter supression state, NC will NOT.

[EFerrari]

13. You forgot, then BLAME the voters for being too stupid to vote.

or for not showing up -- when nothing could be further from the truth. But, that's what is always reported.

:grr:

[SwampG8r]

54. im starting to think the states

with mail in ballots are the only smart ones
you would be the ass of history if they caught you screwing with the US mail

500 to 1500 votes for hillary huh?
so lets see
when we subtract 500 votes from EVERY precinct in pennsylvania does she still win?
bet not

[SoCalDem]

10. Fast Eddie was BEAMING the next day and so proud

of "holding DOWN the vote in Philly"..

Isn't that special?:puke:

[LynneSin]

92. Nothing like fucking the people who made him who he is

You'd think he wouldn't screw around with the Philly vote being a Philly native.

But that's Fast Eddie for you.

[Usrename]

14. Rage against the machine.

[crankychatter]

20. my new desktop thanks

pretty much sums up MY sentiments

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

22. I think it was broken so that no one could vote on it

as much as I hate DRE/computerized voting, that was all they had,
and the machine was not usable.

Generally about 115 people can vote on one (1) machine during a 12 hour day.

So because that machine was broken, a bottle neck was created, and people had to wait.

With paper ballot optical scans, everyone could keep on voting even if the one
machine was broken.

AN optical scanner can handle at least 3,000 ballots in one day.
Thats far more than usually show up to vote at one polling place.

If you have a black bic stick pen and a ballot you can vote - any flat
surface will do.

[crankychatter]

24. Oh I know...

Still... If my machine failed, I'd be pissed.

The lines are hard evidence of malfeasance

just like in Ohio... it won't get reported.

it just makes me heartsick to see this.

[Usrename]

31. If that machine was intentionally broken...

... like it appears to be

... then whoever did it is a true patriot!

:patriot:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

39. in this case that meant turning people away from the polls

and giving one candidate a false victory.

[Usrename]

41. Better that it happens in the primary then.

And besides, isn't that the whole purpose of the machines in the first place?

Giving one candidate a false victory.

[Cheap_Trick]

15. Hillary's thugs were out in force.

Yay, she swipes another page from Rove's playbook.

[uponit7771]

17. K, why don't they get like...200 machines to vote on. waiting that long is stupid

[crankychatter]

19. kicked

.

[ms liberty]

21. K&R n/t

[cui bono]

26. figures. Sounds sooooo familiar...

[TragedyandHope]

27. We want our country back

:kick:

[TexasObserver]

28. White racist politicians suppressing black votes. That's what Hillary brings to the party.

I can't believe our party is being dirtied with this latter day George-tte Wallace.

[graycem]

29. They're mimicking

everything else the Republicans do, so why not this too. It's sad when you can say you're not surprised, and I'm not.

[BearSquirrel2]

128. I pretty much agree ...

Hillary is pretty much using the complete Rove playbook. She sickens me.

[helderheid]

30. rec 40

[L0oniX]

32. Penn is full of bigots ...verified now. G0d Damn America

:evilfrown:

[I Have A Dream]

58. Every state is full of bigots -- not just Pennsylvania. nt

[WinkyDink]

145. Look. It's "PA", not "Penn". Nobody abbreviates OTHER states incorrectly.

[polichick]

33. Did I miss something - is anything being done about this???

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

35. the media called the SOS who said everything was hunkie dorie

it would be great if somehow Keith Olbermann could be persuaded to look into this.

[polichick]

36. Thanks - this is depressing beyond words...

I'm going to email Keith.

[gateley]

45. Be sure to include this tidbit:

A technician was dispatched to each location and helped to properly set up the machines,upon further inspection machines had been manipulated and set with 500 to 1500 votes calibrated to Clinton.

[polichick]

90. My email to Keith didn't go through - maybe his addy has changed...

I don't understand why the Obama campaign isn't doing something about this.

[helderheid]

118. [e-mail]

Obama mentioned in a post PA speech that he didn't trust machines without paper. I suspect he's aware. He's one cool cucumber and I expect he's working on it without losing it.

[Zhade]

34. Wow. Unsettling, to say the least.

NT!

[mhoran]

37. One more reason why we need real and comprehensive change!

Even without her more recent reprehensible behavior, it was clear that Clinton was too much a part of the problem to ever truly be part of any real solutions.

Uphill though the battle may be, Obama is the only chance we have at changing the American political dynamic in any enduring fashion.

[ksquire]

38. "whatever it takes to win" besides...

many of them were only black people. the others -- latte drinkers. these
"votes" don't really count anyway.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

40. she was predicted to have a 5% lead not 9%

so something went wrong

[Vattel]

107. must have been cheating

because the polls are never off by four points (sarcasm).

[stillcool]

42. Deja vu...

sounds like Ohio 04

[bbgrunt]

43. It is abundantly clear why there has been no

concerted efforts by the congress to fix this mess. Both sides want to play dirty.

[windbreeze]

46. ok, so when are the Dems going to do something about these

machines??? and why have they wasted how many years now, ignoring the fact that they are not dependable or believable..??? Perhaps they also play the game, and it suits them not to change things???? Does anything else make sense?? wb

[CrispyQ]

123. Being second in line at the trough is better than not being at the trough at all. --nt

[natrat]

125. dems is a bullshit term cuz half of them are bullshit crooks so good luck fixing anything

[NJSecularist]

47. Voting machines malfunctioning during election day is common.

Unless you have some more proof beyond a few isolated incidents, then this post seems like sour grapes to me.

Remember, they are machines. Computers. As many of us know, computers can malfunction.

[grantcart]

48. awaiting your examples of similar incidents in rural districts

[rateyes]

97. Don't hold your breath waiting for that. nt

[anigbrowl]

49. I built and repaired computers professionally for years...

and you rarely get multiple identical machines that just crash on a particular day. The odds of 6 going down in a single location are pretty damn low. I don't care for this 'computers - who knows what they will do? They are strange and wondrous things!' stuff. I see a computer that doesn't work, I can usually tell you in 10 minutes what's wrong with it even if I can't necessarily fix it immediately.

[SwampG8r]

57. how many with

some form of counter that all had the exact readings on them

say 500 to 1500

[eridani]

81. The computers you work on get constantly tested in the real world

That process works the bugs out. In contrast, we only vote a couple of times a year. How badly would cars suck if people only drove them twice a year?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

52. sending broken machines to polling places, not having emergency ballots = criminal

PA requires emergency paper ballots. There werent' any in Obama favored polling places.

People were turned away from the polls - that should never happen.

This could have been prevented by the counties obeying the SOS directive to
have emergency paper ballots on hand as many states do,
and also by supplying WORKING machines and plenty of them to the
polling places.

This is a typical Ken Blackwell strategy of sending plenty of machines to
certain polling places, and few but broken machines to select polling places.

Believe what you want, if that fits your special version of reality.

Its real. It happened. Of course a Rendell controlled SOS and media isn't going
to tell the truth.

We find that all the time with e-voting fraud. All the time.

Indiana is next, it will be even worse than PA.

They peeled 1 million voters off the rolls since Nov 2007.

[Blue State Bandit]

66. Verified!

[boppers]

70. I work on serious computers. Some of them are ones that run aspects of your life.

Properly built computer systems don't malfunction.

Crappy software malfunctions, bad procedures malfunction, lack of planning malfunctions.

Computer systems don't.

I have a computer system that I work on every day that has not crashed, or needed a reboot, in 9 years. When computing is set up by people who know what they're doing, and how to do it, computers simply do not malfunction.

"Oops, we lost track of all the planes and then they started hitting each other": What you'd hear if the FAA system could be forgiven "malfunction".
"So sorry, we just killed all the patients on the second floor": What you'd hear if a pharmacy system could be forgiven "malfunction".
"Oops, we just nuked russia": What you'd hear if the DoD launch systems could be forgiven "malfunction".
"Oops, the stock market just crashed": What you'd hear if the NYSE/NASDAQ systems could be forgiven "malfunction".

The only way this kind of thing happens is either incompetence, or malevolence. I'd tend to the former, simply because most folks know next to nothing about computers.

Sorry if this comes across as angry, I'm a bit sick and tired of people excusing shoddy workmanship and crappy planning, and then blaming it on something they don't understand in the slightest.

[mirrera]

80. That is the simple evil beauty... it is always a "mistake" and people buy it.

I also work on Computers and am amazed at what people believe about them. Our elected officials are the worst. Many of them can't even get their own email.

[eridani]

83. It isn't just a matter of building them. It's a matter of constantly using them and testing them

--against reality. If voting machines were in constant daily use, they'd work a lot better too.

[dbmk]

112. Its a bloody poll - its not exactly the interface to a Boeing 747

And you argument that there is so long between elections is rather bad.

They have YEARS to perform extensive testing - planned and monkey - and given that we are talking elections, I would HOPE that such was performed. But obviously isn't. Or if it is - something else is up.

People here are right. There is no valid reason that a machine, especially one performing something as simple but vitally important as this, should malfunction such frequency. 6 in the same place is out of the question.

[eridani]

146. Nothing beats real world testing

There are always plenty of bug reports when programs actually get used by the public that extensive beta testing does not uncover. Extensive testing isn't performed because the machine companies have elections boards by the short hairs. The latter never, ever act like normal businesses and demand equipment that meets certain specifications--they take whatever crap is offered for sale. Diebold also makes ATMs, and their banking customers would never tolerat the sloppiness imposed on elections departments. And if Diebold ever dared to say that they, and not their bank customers, owned the bank's financial data, how do you suppose the banks would react?

[postulater]

117. I don't believe I've ever had an ATM malfunction on me.

[frylock]

120. many of us work on computers for a living..

save the bullkrap and produce links showing that machines in the clinton strongholds experienced similar issues. take your time and be as thorough as possible.

[BearSquirrel2]

129. Did they find any ...

Did they find any with counters set 1000+ for Obama. Broken machines are statistics. Rigged machines are biased and it points to who was doing the monkey business.

[Lugnut]

50. K&R n/t

[Cha]

51. Good blessings on these

folks who tried to voted and couldn't because the voting machines were "down". Wonder how close it would have been if they hadn't of been disenfranchised?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

53. the pictures broke my heart - the perversion of democracy in 2008

here we are we still have Jim Crowe, its just done with the denial of
service by broken voting machine.

[Cha]

55. Mine too..may they

be rewarded in the long run with the Grand PrizeB-)

[SwampG8r]

59. and look who is doing it

and doing it in our name
she is an embarassment

[Ka hrnt]

76. I find the pictures hilarious!

Why? Because the last image given there, implied as evidence of no problems at Hilary's strongholds, is NOT at one of Hilary's strong holds. In fact...it's almost (at least) a year old, which tells me, this entire article is dishonest (at best).

Source of their picture (located under the text of "HILLARY CLINTON'S STRONGHOLD AND POLLING STATIONS HAD NOT ONE PROBLEM *Below* "):
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2946725570102947052UDKYdq

A Google Search turned up:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://uprisingradio.org/home/%3Fp%3D1739&h=315&w=475&sz=33&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=ExMqIHW2fbkwPM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvoting%2Bmachine%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

Look familiar? And on a "my.barackobama.com" webpage. Whoopsies. My condolences to those who fell hook, line, and sinker for this propaganda piece.

[SoxFan]

109. One-Post Wonders for Hillary

[NanceGreggs]

56. ERROR MESSAGE:

"You have already attempted to RECOMMEND this thread over two thousand times - give it up already."

So I'll just content myself with a good, swift :kick:

[Zambero]

60. This travesty was merely a dry run for the general election

Mission acccomplished. Everything's a GO(P)!!!

[anitar1]

61. K & R n/t

[myrna minx]

62. K&R

[DerekJ]

63. USA: Working hard to become a third world country.

[crankychatter]

64. kicking

kicked

[SunsetDreams]

67. Until this is corrected, Hilllarys' win in PA is not legitimate

I'll take that state off of her count.

[CaptJasHook]

68. K&R

[ForeignSpectator]

69. Now, help me, what was the difference between clinton and republicans again? n/t

[Hutzpa]

71. I FUCKING KNEW IT, I KNEW THEY STOLE IT AGAIN

this is unbelievable, another primary stolen now we know why the Clintons don't
like caucuses because they can't steal the primaries.

Ed Randell and Nutter should be ashamed of themselves,

would love to hear their explanation for this <tapping my fingers waiting>

This is the mark of desperations by them, I really don't consider her a democrat
anymore.

They are like the terrible tooth ache where the only remedy is to remove it.


:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Freedom Train]

79. You are accusing the Democratic Party of voting fraud

I don't consider YOU a Democrat anymore. You are doing the bidding of the GOP.

Clinton won PA fair and square. You should just get over it. As I said downthread, it's not fraud every time Obama doesn't win.

And you'd do best to calm down before putting anything more in print. This sentence for example does not make any sense:

another primary stolen now we know why the Clintons don't
like caucuses because they can't steal the primaries.

[MadHound]

84. Do we give a tinker's dam about what you think?

No, we don't. I just love how these low count posters come in and presume to speak in such presumptive terms.

There are certainly some very suspicious things going on, and that they happen to go on in Obama districts is quite disturbing. The correlation is there, no doubt, and it deserves to be investigated. Frankly, given 2000 any real Democrat would be wanting to do their best to eliminate such possible voting fraud, no matter who it favored. But apparently there's a momentary shortage of real Democrats around here.

[Freedom Train]

88. Boo-hoo-hoo... "Low poster!"

So I found DU after you did. Whoop-de-frickin-doo!

I'm a real Democrat. YOU however are just another Obama elitist who thumb your nose at low-count posters and accuse your OWN party (well, everything's relative I guess) of voting fraud. So who's responsible you say? Does it go all the way to Dean, or are just us pesky PA Democrats to blame?

[MadHound]

113. Frankly, given the '00 and '04 debacles, one would think that any real Democrat

Would be concerned about any sort of voting irregularities. Instead, you come back with that classic line you nicked from Rush, Rove, and even lately Scalia, "just get over it" Sure you're a "real Democrat":eyes::rofl:

Tell us then, "real Democrat" what are your creds? What campaigns have you worked on, how long have you been in the party, etc. etc. I'm willing to stack my thirty five years of Democratic activism up against your sorry ass any day of the week.

As far as being elitist, I'm not thumbing my nose at low count posters, I'm questioning the legitimacy of a poster who happens to not to not only have a low post, but who's also coming across like a right wing asshole, especially with the comment "just get over it"

In other words, it isn't your post count that I find offensive, it's your assholish, RW remarks that I find both offensive and questionable. Got the picture now?

[Freedom Train]

127. Thirtyfive years, and now you're turning on your own party screaming FRAUD,

just because your guy happened to lose in what's tantamount to a blowout in my state. Yeah, you SHOULD get over it.

Also, way to try to use the phrase "real Democrat" against me when YOU were the one who brought it up. No, I can't match your experience, I've only been in the party since the first time I was eligible to vote; in '88, for Dukakis. I've voted strictly Democratic all the way down the ticket in every election since then, and my parents since LBJ. But I guess I'll have to excuse my being born later than you in addition to finding DU later.

I'll ask again since you didn't bother to answer: Who are responsible for this alleged fraud pray tell? Was it just Rendell? Did Dean silently acquiesce, or did he maybe even mastermind it? Maybe we got together among the PA Democrats and drank blood from skulls and thought up a devious plan on how to do it?? C'mon, here's your chance now after 35 years to call out your fellow Democrats, right in the middle of a heated primary, and with the GOP almost wetting themselves at the thought of you giving them election fraud fodder!

Here's another assholish, RW remark for you since we're on the subject: Bring it on!

[SoxFan]

108. One-Post Wonders for Hillary

[Freedom Train]

131. Oh, spare me...

n/t

[me b zola]

116. First of all, it's 'ELECTION FRAUD", not "voter fraud"

The voters did nothing wrong.

Secondly, nobody gives a rat's ass what you have to say.

[Freedom Train]

133. How nice of you to tell me

You must obviously bother enough to reply though.

So, who perpetrated this election fraud, pray tell? C'mon, call out your fellow democrats now, I'm all ears.

[Hutzpa]

140. Did you read the OP or you are just being

a complete disbeliever? I can't understand your defending of something that is so
obvious with proof or you are refusing to acknowledge what Christopher said....

:shrug:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

122. Rendell controlls the state like Jeb controlled Florida

fraud is a bi partisan thing. The pictures don't lie.

Activists fought for several years for paper ballots optically scanned.
If they had gotten them INSTEAD of the paperless machines, the voters could not
be denied their franchise.

Gee, why didn't Ed Rendell want paper ballots?

Why didn't fast Eddie make sure there were emergency paper ballots at all
polling places as per SOS order?

Hmmmm..... why were so many people in African American polling places
blocked from voting?

[Freedom Train]

135. Ok, so it's Rendell's fault then.

Just like it was Daley's "fault" that JFK won the presidency in 1960, right?

Damn those pesky Democrats, they just never stop with their fraudulent behavior!

Thought about joining the Republicans lately? Now there's a party that never cheats!

[Hutzpa]

141. I think it will suit you perfectly,

you sure do sound like them condoning fraudulent act, how dare you?

Do you realize Obamas name was on each and every ballot, why wasn't his

name included in some precinct?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

142. Rendell could have asked to keep the polls open 2 more hours but he didn't

Voter Action sued to keep the polls open 2 extra hours so that these
voters could vote!

The judge turned them down.

I have NEVER heard of a judge refusing to keep the polls open.

That NEVER happens in my state.

[Hutzpa]

139. You're right

I left out couple of words, it shoould have read and I quote;

"Now we know why the Clintons don't like caucuses because they can't steal people as in stealing numbers (500-1500), whereas primaries are much easier to manipulate the machines/figures"

There, do you feel beter now.

:evilgrin:

[WinkyDink]

144. "THEY"? Who? Democrats? You are accusing Democrats of CRIMES here?

[Hutzpa]

147. They = CLintons and her croonies Ed Randell, Nutter et al n/t

[Ka hrnt]

72. Oh my God....

Anyone taking this at face value needs a healthy dose of reality.

First of all, the quality of this report is rendered suspect in the first (non)sentence:

"If you were planning to vote yesterday in the Pennsylvania primary you had another thing coming as reports of voting machine problems in all of Obama's stronghold precincts."

Yeah...read that again and notice it's missing something. Opening sentence. Lots of typos in this article too.

"Six of ten machines were down at a busy Delaware County polling site. It took 103 people 8 hours to vote in Upper Darby, which is heavily populated by immigrant and first time voters. Many of those freshly-minted voters had difficulties using the six machines that still functioned. "Hell of a day for six of the machines to go down," said one poll worker."

So six of ten were down....but six still functioned? Neat.

"A technician was dispatched to each location and helped to properly set up the machines,upon further inspection machines had been manipulated and set with 500 to 1500 votes calibrated to Clinton."

So rather than turning the machines overs to authorities or at least getting proof of this, they just reset them and walked away?

"HILLARY CLINTON'S STRONGHOLD AND POLLING STATIONS HAD NOT ONE PROBLEM *Below*"

For proof of this they offer TWO pictures, neither of which seems to have any evidence as to when/where they were taken.

[Vattel]

115. how dare you

try to deprive people of their right to credulity. I trust my gut and my gut tells me that all of the claims in this report are true and that Clinton has WMDs.

[Kurovski]

73. K&R.

Maybe in another 10 years someone in a position of power and influence who is not completely corrupted will finally have enough courage to actually tell the truth about all this. :mad:

Carter? Obama? Gore? Kerry? Edwards? Kennedy? Would any of those fine gentleman like to get up off of their asses and say a strong word or two?

This has gone on long enough.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

74. I knew there was no way she won 40% in Greater Philly. Knew it! nt

[intaglio]

75. Remember - Obama did not pay "Street Money" either

but I bet Clinton did

[Kurovski]

77. Kick. (nt)

[Freedom Train]

78. Then there was that story about the little boy who cried wolf so many times...

...that in the end no one believed him. If there is fraud, it will be in November on account of the GOP, and incessant screaming about fraud in our own primaries won't help our case then. Because you do realize you are now accusing the Democratic Party of voting fraud??

I voted in northwestern PA, and speaking from my personal experience, there were no problems whatsoever - and none that I've heard been reported either.

It's not fraud every time Obama doesn't win. Get over it.

[psychmommy]

82. there was malfeasance.

i am from s jersey. we get philly radio. the black stations reported voting irregularities. to see it in pictures is another story. i am so sad at the state of affairs in this country. some other countries need to come in and monitor our voting. we have officially become a third world country and that is exactly what those with money want. they cannot afford an obama to put their agenda back another 4-8 years.
that is great you could discredit one pic. discredit those long voting line pics. this is the same crap that happened in harlem. shame on the democratic party and the dlc suckers that are upholding this garbage. i don't even recognize this party anymore.

[Jennicut]

99. As far as I'm concerned Hillary and Bill have not acted like Democrats lately

Are you so sure that they would not try to bloody Obama now even if they realize Hill probably won't get the nomination? Are they not setting up a situation where they want McCain to win the GE and come back in 4 years? Hill and Bill crave power and they and their lackeys would do anything to help them get it. I used to support them in the 90's but I and many others have woken up to their Rethug-like ways in this primary. And one more thing: voting machines are so easily manipulated. Anyone can do it, Rethug or Democrat. The Dems were on the losing side of manipulating them so far but what is to say a corrupt Dem wouldn't take advantage of the situation against another Dem? That is naive thinking.

[XtraProudDem]

100. Oh, please. NW PA?

Most of my family lives in Bradford, PA. There was no need to worry about Senator Obama winning there.

There is so much bigotry in that part of the state that the African Americans are still often refered to as "coloreds." There are people in my family that won't ride the city bus because...well...you know why.

[Freedom Train]

104. So your family is racist.

Why take it out on me?

Oh, and not to forget: Once again it's the "Obama lost because people are racist" meme. Get help - you obviously need it.

[defendandprotect]

86. Until we return to paper ballots and ink, we're going to have computer programming STEALS ---

[H2O Man]

87. Nominated.

It's a tough state. This is no surprise.

[Broadslidin]

89. Wal-Mart has now in stock: trustworthy voter tracking machines made in Communist China....

As the world's recognized leader in manufacturing,
the Communist :hi: Chinese will gladly guide
u.s. though these difficult :cry: times.

Even providing u.s. with the needed cash at a mere 14%
for purchase of plush painted "Red, White, and Blue
'Permanent Record' voter machines.

[polichick]

91. Where's the DNC???

[dailykoff]

95. She's got them locked up in an underground Florida bunker.

Every now and then they get a message out via carrier pigeon.

[stillcool]

105. I think the State Parties run their..

own primary elections. I don't think problems with voting systems can be fixed by the National Party or the Federal Government. I think that people have to make their State Government responsible for the way they run their elections, and count their votes.

[Freedom Train]

106. The DNC were helping Hillary stuff the ballot boxes

At least according the OP and those cheering him/her on.

[Zodiak]

151. The article doesn't mention the DNC at all

Nor have any of of the posters other than to ask where the DNC is.

So stop trying to spin the responses on this thread into something they are not. Strawmen fall down quickly around here.

[dailykoff]

93. Notice how Hillary's "comebacks" occur in "firewall states"

that rely heavily on electronic voting machines. Thanks for illustrating with pictures. Obama desperately needs to address this problem but can't focus on it as long as Pastorella is still doing her elephant dance, another reason no doubt the RNC is propping her up.

[Botany]

103. Oh just because ....

In New Hampshire the machines went to Hillary and the paper vote went to
Barack ... but don't worry they had to stop the recount because "they" lost
the memory cards to the Diebold machines.

Or in Harlem they had precincts that didn't record 1 vote for Obama

Or the funny way all the indie vote in California got nulled out because
of "double bubble" on the ballot

Or in Ohio (Warren County) where 12,000 reg. dems produced 27,000 dem
votes.

Or in New Mexico ........

Anybody who can't see what is going on is blind. Obama has to win by more than
12 points in the fall to get the White House.

[Joe Chi Minh]

136. "Obama has to win by more than 12 points in the fall to get the White House."

Obama is going to need Don King, that boxing promotor with the "electrified" haircut, arranging the bout. He'd be up against it - even with his alleged connections!

[catgirl]

148. I noticed that too

and the exit polls were far different than the results in PA.

[futureliveshere]

94. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!!!

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

96. Kick Kick Kick Kick

This needs to be seen!

[quantass]

98. Geez, why cant we just have a 100% fair election and see the actual outcome. This is BS.

[Maineman]

101. I fear that the corporate component of our current fascist state

has selected Hillary to be installed as the next President. This will be a tough serious fight by We-the-People. But fight we must.

[quantass]

102. What a shame. I know it seems daunting but why not post trusted members at those sites.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

121. Voter Action sued to keep polls open longer, judges denied suit

efforts were made to address the issue - and a court ruled against the voters.

see www.voteraction.org

[wrando]

110. deleted

[wrando]

111. the taste of sour grapes

[Buzz Clik]

132. Please. Get it right. The text contains the story:

A hungry fox noticed a juicy bunch of grapes growing high on a grapevine. He leaped. He snapped. Drooling, he jumped to reach them, but try as he might, he could not obtain the tasty prize.

Disappointed by the fruitless efforts he'd made to get the grapes that day, he said, with a shrug, to comfort himself, "Oh, they were probably sour anyway!"

Not one person here is claiming "sour grapes."

[Amonester]

114. This is I N S A N E.

How much more morally corrupt the voting process has to become before someone S A N E actually D O something about it (once and for A L L)?

[helderheid]

119. Bobby Kennedy, who ENDORSED Hillary, is suspicious

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5653957&mesg_id=5653957

[natrat]

124. fuck clinton- fuck republicans

[Joe Chi Minh]

134. How can Hillary live with that? If she were so unworldly as not to know

it would happen, as it was proved to have happened to Edwards and others, she must know now.

I felt sure Bill Clinton's face would one day feature on Mount Rushmore, albeit for fighting a seemingly impossible rearguard action; not for economic gains for the large majority of Americans, suffering under the brutal cosh of the corporatist political establishment. Any expectation of that extraordinary distinction now seems highly improbable. They, the Republicans, won in the end. Impossible as it had always seemed.

[usregimechange]

138. Even if this was not a dirty trick, something needs to be done about this

[WinkyDink]

143. "Dirty tricks", my Democratic arse. It's simply that the machines are CRAP.

Don't be morans.

[Kurovski]

150. Machines calibrated to give a candidate 500-1500 votes from the start?

Sounds like those crappy machines goes on the fritz in a funny kind of way.

[Kurovski]

149. Kick. (nt)

[dchill]

152. Kick.

[crankychatter]

153. kicked again - this needs to be front page of every paper in america

American Democracy will be a nice story we tell our grand children

[Texas Hill Country]

154. yeah, cause there were NO problems elsewhere in the state.....

:sarcasm:



there were voting machine issues in just about every district FYI....

[Lilith Velkor]

155. I was wondering what was taking so long.

[demodonkey]

156. Please. PM me if anyone has hard evidence of fraud, tampering, or plain breakdown in PA...

...my group VotePA is working hard to track these things, so we can change them. We are doing our best, but we need help and support.

We need confirmed reports, precinct numbers, names, voter and / or pollworker names (if available) etc. Hard facts that we can track down and use. We need reports of any kind of problem -- machine failure, long lines, deceptive practices, registration problems, etc.

Also if anyone is in PA and had actual trouble voting this past week, PLEASE FILE A FORMAL HAVA COMPLAINT. We are told time and time again by the SOS that there has never been a HAVA complaint filed. Complaint info and forms here: http://www.hava.state.pa.us/hava/cwp/view.asp?a=1186&q=442256&havaNav=|

We need all the help we can get in PA.

PLEASE HELP US, because come November 5 everyone may become a Pennsylvanian. That is to say that a faulty result in Pennsylvania may cancel the result of YOUR vote for President no matter where you live. PA is well on track to become the next Ohio or Florida. It only takes a few precincts.

Marybeth
http://www.VotePA.us

[TNOE]

157. Kick

Once again - the Bushes & the Clintons are one in the same.

[TNOE]

158. Kick

[TNOE]

159. Kicking Again