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Westwood NJ, big problem with the voting machines in Bergen County. Don’t leave the polls until your vote is officially counted.
Complaints range from “voter already voted” , “voter not registered ” and just voting machines down .
Glen School 7:45 am. Printer broken, come back later.
Government is so screwed up , local level, state level, Washington, – they don’t want you to vote anyway. It’s politics. Don’t bother to vote, waste of time.
Country is going downhill. The 2 million a year illegal migrants coming in will be taken care of and all will be fine.
It was not an easy process to vote at GW this morning. The process and procedure to cast your vote is arcane, inefficient, and borders on pompous. I am first to admit that my age keeps me away from the cutting edge of technology. However, those patient and friendly poll workers are certain to have rotary phones at home. God bless them but they are probably not the best candidates to manage the supposed high tech gobbledygook voting machines that are likely compromised by many bad actors. So we have a flawed voting process being managed by unprepared poll workers. I hate to think that Donald may be correct on the sanctity of our national, state, and local voting integrity. You may disagree with me but that tells me that you have not voted today.
Process at Orchard a complete change. Process last year seamless. This year multi layer process dependent on printers and scanners operating efficiently.
-Insert card
-input selections on computer screen
-review entries on screen
-submit /cast vote
-print completed ballot
-walk printed ballot to scanners on opposite side of room
-insert into scanner w no direction on which end or side up/down
-pray it all works
yes voting went backward not forward one of the voting unit printer was having problems early 10.20 am
you should need to show ID one day for voting one button to press what exactly happened to computers that
sent the votes to be counted…. like the cloud??? everything else goes to the cloud paper votes to be put into another unit printers needed// waste of time and $$$ to pay for this new system and it takes three times the time to vote
Same at GWMS. One of the ballot machines had just run out of paper and the other had a problem. Eventually all fixed.
I felt bad for the poll workers who obviously had to explain it all to everybody, since we not only didn’t know how to do it, we had no idea it was happening.
Don’t worry!
When the count shows that Republicans have won some seats, the uncounted absentee and mail-in ballots will amazingly save the day for Democrats.
LIKE THEY DO EVERY FECKING TIME IN GLEN ROCK.
Yes, every time you get fewer votes, you lose an election.
Unfortunately, the Republicans are acknowledging that their constituents are behind the times and need to start voting by mail.
P.S. I meant “Same at GWMS later, just before 6 PM.”
process at Willard School seemed a bit disorganized – there was a desk to the right with posters re: how to vote but peeson had head down – should be engaging citizens as they enter the room advising and asking them if they were aware of and read the “NEW VOTING iNSTRUCTIONS FOR VOTING MACHINES” that came with the mail with the sample ballot. Also one volunteer at the “sign-in” station (woman) had a heavy foreigh accent (a bit diff. to understand) and the man sitting with her also signing people in had a mask on which made him difficult to understand-him – hand gesturing). Once signed in and signature verfied and witnessed ? – staffer initialed? you are given an authorization card with a black arrow on it to activate the curtained voting screen machine and a receipt tape is printed and retained by the signer- in attendant. The prev Voter had left his/her activation card in the machine without taking it out so I pulled it out and notified/gave it to an attendant. *I placed my card in the alot on the right of the screen and the ballot image appeared and voting choices were made by “touch” . However when prompted for “Review”, the ballot is not re-sized for the screen and candidate names to the right of the ballot (2-3 candidates?) were not visible! I believe there were +/- boxes in upper right of the screen for resizing however instructions were NOt clear on this. Rhe next step after Preview was a prompt to print the ballot. I proceeded and albeit slow , the “full” ballot printed out on somewhat heavy paper(landscape mode . I then took the ballot thinking it was a receipt and as I walked out of the “booth” an attendant took the auth. card and directed me to the “scanners” on the far side of the room where I was instructed to feed in and scan (cast?) my ballot. The process was a bit slow however the “successfully scanned” mesaage appeared on the display and I was advised that all was good. I pointed out to the attendant that the ballot does not adjust automatically for the “Preview” and she advised that sjhe was aware and that there was an adjustment feature? I replied that all was fine with my full printed ballot however I am sure that many ? will have have issues with this. If I was a candidate and my name was off on the right side of the ballot and not visible immediately on Preview, I would be quite concerned! Also I noted that the New Voting instructions that came in the mail with the sample ballot notes in Step 3. Review & Print that no “privacy folder” was provided. Communications need work on this “new system”. Too many steps , issues and. cumbersome. NEEDS WORK !
Don’t be afraid to use paragraphs next time you post!
Complainers, all of you!
2020 PTSD
Voting is no longer necessary, anyway. The Dems have rationalized cheating in the key States and feel it’s necessary to prevent the racists from getting in. All this mail-in bullshit and harvesting the retirement homes. Extra boxes of ballot boxes always miraculously get delivered if necessary. We get months of Dem controlled media telling us there’s no evidence of cheating. Far too many fingers in the mix between the voters and the tallys.
Like Yvonne said, “what a disgrace”.
Latest results 11:00PM
https://www.northjersey.com/elections/results/local/2023-11-07/34003/
Ridgewood School Board (Two three-year terms)
Candidate Total Votes % Votes
Mary E. Micale 119 27.9%
Saurabh Dani * 80 18.8%
Julie Mchedlishvili 63 14.8%
Michael W. Lembo * 56 13.1%
Laura E. McKenna 42 9.9%
Malcolm R. Jennings 36 8.5%
Claude J. Guinchard II 30 7.0%
Here we go again, if you think this is a screwup you just wait until the president election again. Just remember all those machines are electronic. That means can be controlled to go either way. Just like a slap machine, oh yes, it’s all bullshit. It’s the powers to be. If you got a seat at the table, thank you’re in power just like in the village of Ridgewood there are people running the show that you never even see them, it’s called influence crew they are the ones who are pulling the strings like it, or not. Don’t always think it’s the mayor council running the show, they have the entrance to the people put them in power.
Look at PA
Votes were flipped
So why the changes if there was no fraud in the 2020 election? Trump is the real president!
“This is unacceptable in this country”…………this cracks me up. If people still have the illusion that this country is somewhat bound to high standards of integrity then you’re living in the past. Today everything is controlled and adjustments are made when needed to produce the desired outcome. BUT ALSO, the latest voting “technology” makes sure to know who you are voting for. Vote used to be a secret, now it is open and permanently recorded somewhere in the cloud. And that voting record will follow us for a long time. This is very troublesome but nobody seems to be concerned. Typically the only concern for Americans is the inconvenience.
Like we told you, this is all controlled, like it, or not. When you can’t control a slot machine, you can control anything I think about it.