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Oct. 31st, 2004 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingElectronic voting machines in Texas record straight-ticket Democrat votes as supporting Bush/Cheney for President
Of course, those same machines, when told to vote straight-ticket Republican, tended to mark "no vote" in the Presidential race.
If you voted straight-ticket, which is the first option on the screen, and then pressed enter instead of scrolling down past the last positional votes to a referendum question and the Next button, it changed your votes to the next available selection and then proceed. For straight-ticket Demos, this is Republican. For straight-ticket Republicans, this is "No choice".
Of course, those same machines, when told to vote straight-ticket Republican, tended to mark "no vote" in the Presidential race.
If you voted straight-ticket, which is the first option on the screen, and then pressed enter instead of scrolling down past the last positional votes to a referendum question and the Next button, it changed your votes to the next available selection and then proceed. For straight-ticket Demos, this is Republican. For straight-ticket Republicans, this is "No choice".