There’s A Pit In My Stomach
This will be an ongoing post today about the midterm elections. There’s a pit in my stomach.
Rhetoric
Our uniting illegitimate president decided to repeat his attacks on his political opponents and say that Republican voters “are not bright” just before the voting started. Of course, faux Joe had no idea this was a presidential election.
Howard Stern thinks there will be a Civil War if Herschel Walker is elected. Of course, if Walker wins, Stern will be begging him to come on his show to yuck it up.
Very Likely Cheating
Updates 5PM
In Maricopa County, Arizona, officials confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that upwards of 20% of machines there were not functioning as they should have.
Other problems appeared more minor. Scanner issues in Floyd County, Indiana, were reportedly resolved early on in the voting process, according to WDRB.
A voting site in Albany, New York, meanwhile, also reportedly experienced problems with its ballot counting machine, CNYCentral reported.
One Houston-area polling location allegedly saw a four-hour delay in ballot submissions, according to the New York Times, due to an election clerk walking off the job site and workers having failed to set up voting machines prior to the opening of polls.
Officials in Philadelphia, meanwhile, said on Monday that ballot-counting could be delayed for up to 30,000 ballots due to an election integrity lawsuit brought by local Republican officials.
A Houston-area polling place reportedly had to order new voting machines after the tabulating program on in-service machines was “closed.”
Updates 2PM
A judge has ordered a Georgia county to extend its deadline of absentee ballot receipts after county officials last week sent out hundreds of ballots that the election office had earlier failed to mail.
As Americans head to the polls in Arizona, voters in Maricopa County, the most populous county in Arizona, are running into issues as they attempt to turn in their ballots because of a Dominion Systems malfunction.
As voters across Mercer County, New Jersey head to the polls to cast their ballots on Tuesday, officials have announced that voting machines had gone down to due to a “county-wide system outage.”
A polling station in New York City was forced to shut down temporarily after it received a pipe bomb threat, according to reports.
An Arizona judge has stopped a rural county’s plan to hand-counting midterm ballots, following a request from Republicans for the process over concerns about the trustworthiness of the voting machines.
ABC reports Republicans should expect their leads to “crumble completely” in a “red mirage” as mail-in ballot dumps are counted.
Dr. Robert Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, states that his research team is monitoring online political content directed at voters in swing states and believes that Google and other companies are attempting to shift opinion and voting preferences using “ephemeral experiences.”
My husband showed up at 6am in Fairport, NY to vote. He’s never had an issue EVER in his 20+ years of voting. He was denied his vote today. Every machine malfunctioned. Line was 40+ people deep. He had to leave for work. Without voting.
Lines out the door here in Harris, Texas. People are coming from other polling locations that are shut down. Only half the machines were working here for the first hour.
Should mail-in-votes that are undated or incorrectly dated be counted in Tuesday’s midterm elections? Common sense, state law, and a Pennsylvania court all say “no,” but Democrat Senate wannabe John Fetterman thinks otherwise and took his case to court on Monday.
Democrat Katie Hobbs has been called on by many Republicans in Arizona to recuse herself from election oversight in her own election for months now, but she has refused to do so. Hobbs refused to step down from election administration as Secretary of State.
The Champaign County Illinois Clerk’s Office announced the computer server is under cyber-attack. The cyber-attacks have been ongoing for the last month.
On Tuesday morning Kristina Karamo reported that voters in Michigan are being told they already voted.
Two DOJ observers being allowed by inspector at Southwest Maricopa County location. I’m a clerk here.
Ballots in Kansas are being rejected by the reader at an extremely high rate. Most paper ballots are not being read because of a crease in the middle of the page. The elections office and county sheriffs are being notified. We also had a situation where three people saw their vote flipped on screen for a candidate.
My husband and I voted this morning at our rural NY firehall. Both of our ballots were rejected by the machine. Many of the ballots were being rejected. A neighbor said the same thing was happening in the next town over. Never had this problem before. The woman in charge said it was an issue with the ballots, something about then being printed wrong.
When I voted this morning in Peoria Arizona ( Westbrook village ) poll workers were issuing sharpies to the voter’s.
Only allowed sharpie pens with bleed through to back side with proposals. Asked for new ballot due to bleed through, denied. Said since the bleed through doesn’t interfere with ovals on Bach side it is ok. They said sharpie dries quick. Used ball point pen for 30 years now forced to use sharpie.
In deep blue Harris County, Texas, the scanning tabulator did not work at the location, Rosehill Elementary School. Voters were being told to just leave the ballots with workers. This is a mostly Republican precinct.
This morning, Nov. 8th, in Mount Vernon, Elizabeth Township, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pennsylvania, voters were TURNED AWAY at 7:00 am this morning, poll reporters stating that “THE VOTER REGISTRATION REGISTRY DIDN’T SHOW UP TODAY”, and people could either vote by paper provisional ballot or try back again later – possibly after lunch hour. Same was also taking place in Bethel Park, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pennsylvania. Confirmed by a friend who was turned away this morning.
The polling place at Trinity Lutheran Church, 2520 route 208 Walden, NY. The scanner stopped reading after less than 100 ballots. Everyone is being told to put their ballot into a slot. I don’t know what time it went down, but it was already down by 11:15. This is a red leaning area. They also print out individual ballots after each person signs on the screen. This feels like a concern because there could potentially be a difference between republican and democrat ballots since they’re printed only after they know who they are being given to.
We voted in person at a school. We filled out our ballots and were told to put them in a box. Is this normal? I have never voted in person before.
The tabulation machine quit working at an Austin location during early voting. They were dropping ballots straight into a box.
Tabulation machines in GWINNETT COUNTY GEORGIA are spitting out ballots.
Just left my polling place in Niagara County (upstate NY). Tried putting my ballot (100% conservative) into a machine and it was immediately kicked back out as “unreadable”. I was told this machine has been “acting up” and that I had to use another one which accepted it no problem on the first try.
All Republican districts have no paper to run ballots per WILK talk radio.
