Monosyllabic Pedantry

Thursday, November 09, 2006

A Voting Problem I Believe

Long fingernails to blame for glitches?

“It was infuriating,” Bryant said. “I had to go back and double check every one of my selections. It seems like we spent a lot of money to put machines in place that aren’t reliable.”

Latimore said in some cases, it was a problem with voters, not machines.

We’ve had voters come in and their fingernails are as long as three inches and when they touch [the screen] they are touching more than one box,” Latimore said. “It could record for the wrong person.”

Pat Pullar, deputy director of the Democratic Party of Georgia said the group has received “numerous calls” all day of voter irregularities at mostly black precincts.

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