Exercising My Civic Duty : I Voted
Put forth on November 1, 2006 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Election Fraud, Elections, Elections 2006, Texas
— H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I have done my civic duty and voted today. I went to my local grocery store since it was designated as one of the county’s early voting location. For whatever good it will do, I, at least, can say I’ve done my civic duty. Will my vote be counted fairly and correctly; I don’t know?
What I do know, I was forced to vote on the county’s paperless Hart-Intercivic “eSlate” touch-screen voting machine. Since it is paperless, I do worry about my vote not being counted.
During last March’s 2006 Primary Election in Texas, there were numerous reports of “computer glitches” through out the state. Many of those “glitches” occurred in Tom Green, Zapata, Webb, Tarrant, Jefferson, Winkler and Duval counties using the Hart InterCivic System and machine-counting irregularities. One of the biggest “glitch” resulted in a 100,000-vote malfunction in Tarrant County.
PDF file for Voting systems by county in Texas.
For information about which voting system is being used in your state, click here.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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We’re fortunate out here in Brewster County. We still had the option of using paper ballots. I talked to the Elections Commissioner today (hey, it’s a small county and everybody knows everybody) who told me that out of about 1500 early voters, maybe only 10 or 20 used machines. At least I HOPE my vote is counted.
My mom told me that she was told the voting machines were acting “strange.”
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