That's funny. Things like that always happened to me in my Manhattan district.

The first time, I couldn't get the candidate lever to go down, and told the poll workers. They asked which one wasn't working, and I said the Republican one. They advised me the machine wasn't working, and to come back later (clearly, they were hoping I wouldn't). I came back after work, and different poll worker was working, no trouble, and I voted.

Two other times this happened in the 10 or so years I lived in NYC, and I told them I was a Democrat, and they just went behind the booth and flipped a switch, and the problem was solved.

Hilarious, really. Since at no point was ever seat I ever voted for even remotely contested, I never made any kind of big deal about it. Told a cop at the polling place once, and he just looked at me till I went away.

Anyway, if Hillary Clinton beats Barack Obama by one vote tonight, you can blame me.
THANK YOU KEN, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Makes you wonder about the "Urban Democratic Strongholds", doesn't it?

I used to be a Dem regular in MD and in Chicago many years ago. KW's story sounds very, very familiar.

chsw

People bitch about our Eisenhower era voting technology, but how many elections in this city have actually turned upon a questionable lever machine?

Nine years voting and I've never had a problem and the only election I can think of where this would have even been an issue was the Roy Goodman-Kreuger race a couple of years ago. When I worked as an elections inspector one of the Communist toadies for Frank Barbaro badgered us because there was one E.D. where his name was interpolated into the Republican column. Had no impact on the race whatsoever.

To me it's just as efficient as any sort of optical scan or computerized form of voting. Personally, I'd prefer that we adopt Canada's method of voting. Take a ballot, put it inside of a box, then tabulate the votes.

"Take a ballot, put it inside of a box, then tabulate the votes."

Gerard, I fully agree.