election day shenanigans

[rone]

These two from venividi:

• A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said.

• In an apparent violation of FCC rules, conservative talk radio station KFBK 1530 AM in Sacramento transmitted a paid political advertisement to an unknown number of other stations in the area, using the federal Emergency Alert System (EAS), thus automatically forcing the ad onto the stations' airwaves.

I voted.  On paper.  Don't use voting machines.  See Hacking Democracy.  That is all.

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But...

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

The first article doesn't give us enough information to know a crucial detail:

Was it a Hello Kitty paperweight?

[dpk.livejournal.com]

I voted on paper, technically, but the paper is read by a voting machine (likely Diebold, too, given the fact King County loves 'em). Dunno if there's a way to get the absentee ballots read by hand.