Montgomery (county, MD) to Extend Voting Hours After Election Glitches

[Syrinx]

Polling stations in Montgomery County will remain open until 9 tonight--an hour later than usual--to accommodate voters who were turned away from the polls this morning because of a glitch that left computerized voting machines across the county inoperable.

Circuit Court Judge Eric M. Johnson issued the order about 2 p.m., in response to a petition by the Montgomery County Board of Elections.

Boxes of automated voting cards that are required to work the electronic machines were mistakenly left behind in a Rockville warehouse in the run-up to Election Day, elections officials said.

Early morning voters were forced to cast provisional, hand-written ballots at Montgomery County's 238 polling places, while election staffers scrambled to deliver the forgotten voting cards as quickly as possible. Several precincts ran out of the paper ballots, and workers from at least one precinct went to a copy shop to make more. Some poll workers, according to witnesses, did not know the provisional ballots were an option and told voters to try again later in the day.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091200535.html

[Botany]

1. Coming soon to an election near you this fall

Vote absentee ..... the DREs and their "secret codes" are made
to manipulate the election returns and if we have a massive dem
vote this fall then Rove and company will get what they want
a BIG MESS from which those spawns of hell will continue to
try to keep power.

[Hosnon]

11. I refuse to vote absentee. In Georgia, they aren't even counted unless the

election is close.

[displacedtexan]

2. Also Baltimore.

Poll workers were late.

[librechik]

3. let me guess--Is Montgomery primarily Democratic?

no, don't tell me. I think I know.

[Syrinx]

4. two to one Democratic

2004

Bush 136,334
Kerry 273,936

http://www.elections.state.md.us/past_elections/2004/general/president.html

[CTD]

5. But it was the primary.

Nothing to gain from deliberate voting machine tampering. It's Dems v Dems and Reps v Reps today.

[librechik]

6. just a guess, but once the fix is in, nobody unfixes-

just becasue it's a primary. It's not like the voter is important to them--not as important as a Big Donor.

[MisterP]

7. there's a little of Wynn's district in Montgomery: corrupt, pro-war

"Dem" whose thugs attack workers for rival Dem Donna Edwards

[LiberalEsto]

8. Maybe it's a dry run

to prepare for November

[sofa king]

9. Do they ever actually count those provisional ballots?

[rayofreason]

10. Montgomery County...

...is about as Dem as you can get. In many places (particularly Takoma Park) the Dem party is the RIGHT-WING. If there are any problems there the ones to blame are the Dem county officials who run the place.