On Tuesday a mother and son went to vote together for the first time as the son is 18 years old and participating in his first election. But the experience didn’t go quite as planned.
The Iowa Standard was told there was a line of about 75 people behind them and when they went to turn in their ballots, they were told the machine is jammed.
They said they’d wait and the people in line behind said they’d also wait. Soon people were standing there just waiting and, according to the voter, the election official came over and instructed them to put the ballot in the “emergency bin.”
The son said he had all day and could sit there and wait but the election official allegedly said no, it needed to be turned in.
The mother asked when the ballots would be counted and the election official said there would be a Democrat and Republican who will count them and instructed them not to worry.
The mother asked when that would happen, and was told after polls close.
That contradicts what the Dallas County Auditor’s Office told The Iowa Standard should happen. When issues like this arise, the ballots are to be counted by the machines when they are up and running again.
The woman whose ballot got jammed asked what would happen to her ballot. All they were told was they’d try to figure it out, according to the voter who contacted The Iowa Standard.
Ironically, the voter had an appointment this morning and told the lady she was meeting with about what happened. That woman told her the same thing happened to her boss on Tuesday morning in Altoona.
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Hmmmmm. Doesn’t sound right to me… the contingency plan sounds like they’re making it up as they go along…
we need to absolutely get rid of the machines have more volunteers and counting things by hand. if France can count 35,000,000 ballots by hand, then we can certainly count our ballots by hand.
I was a witness to the recount that was held in Hardin county yesterday, and I continually saw the machine get stuck because the ballots weren’t perfectly flat and they had to a recount bundles numerous times. Iowa residence deserve better! Paul Pate is not on the right side of this. Voter integrity matters! This puts a cloud over our entire system.