2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNew York City primary voters outraged by broken machines, closed polling places
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-primary-voters-outraged-broken-machines-late-polls-article-1.2606810New York primary voting at some Brooklyn and Queens polling places was a disaster Tuesday morning with early morning voters arriving to broken machines and belated polling.
Queens resident George Mack said he came to P.S. 52 in Springfield Gardens to vote right at 6 a.m. He, and about 50 other early voters, learned all three machines on site were broken. Volunteers at the school told voters to place their ballots in a slot, and they would all get processed later.
Its a recipe for disaster, said Mack, 55, who voted for Hillary Clinton.
Somebody at the end of the day is gonna feed (the ballots) through a machine? I dont have confidence in that.
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Jesus! I thought New Yorkers were supposed to be capable of running an election. Broken machines? Why the hell weren't these machines checked out weeks before the primary?!
msongs
(67,441 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)...of problems and lines. So that's something I guess.
apnu
(8,758 posts)And see if the broken machines and polling place confusion is more frequent this year than previous years.
Machines break, people forget and screw up polling locations, people also oversleep or otherwise mis-communicate polling hours. It happens in every election to a certain degree.
Until we know that this day's issues are uncommon or not, we should not jump to conclusions.
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)and so I have little hope for an easy election. Of course the machines should have been checked out and certified some time ago.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)I was an election judge for the runoff during the May 2014 runoff and the Judge Booth Controller died six times. I have to reboot the JBC and all of the units 7 times that day. We need new machines and there are some interesting new technologies being tested
Baobab
(4,667 posts)NJ has obsolete voting machines that have a touch screen and NO PAPER BALLOTS which means they are easily hackable and insecure as hell.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evtwote09/tech/full_papers/appel.pdf
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/avc/