Everyone's been spoiled by iPads etc., I guess. Old touch screens used to do this all the time. My Palm Pilot had a calibration app I'd have to run every few days/weeks.
If he'd hit Mitt Romney, it probably wouldn't have selected Romney but the blank region above his name.
> If he'd hit Mitt Romney, it probably wouldn't have selected Romney but the blank region above his name.
Wrong:
> Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
It's so funny to see that hardly anyone actually did anything more than just watch the video. The same "oh it must have been miscalibrated" is repeated up and down the comment page.
Let's hope whomever gets elected spends money on education so that people start reading again and not just consuming the 5 second Reader's Digest version.
Actually AmVess, that was my point, that most people didn't read the article, they just jumped right to the miscalibration explanation that was already eliminated by the guy making the video.
It's pretty clear that you didn't read (or understand) my comment. Don't comment, you're bad at it. Dumbass!
Miscalibration is supported by the video. We have to take the person's' word on the other buttons, which they for some reason didn't bother to take a video of.
Miscalibrations can also happen in these sorts of resistive touch screens that fit the described behaviour.
He describes in his comments how he touched numerous points down each of the candidates and all points registered for the correct candidate except for Obama.
That makes it not sound like a calibration error to me.
He mentions in the description for the video hitting Jill Stein selects Jill Stein. He was eventually able to vote by hitting a very small area between Obama and Jill Stein.
If he'd hit Mitt Romney, it probably wouldn't have selected Romney but the blank region above his name.