West Virginia’s Saturday Gazette-Mail reports early voting irregularities:
At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win.
Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk’s office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.
“When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain,” said Matheney, who lives in Kenna.
When she reported the problem, she said, the poll worker in charge “responded that everything was all right. It was just that the screen was sensitive and I was touching the screen too hard. She instructed me to use only my fingernail.”
Even after she began using her fingernail, Matheney said, the problem persisted.
When she tried to vote for candidates running for two open seats on the Supreme Court, the electronic machine canceled her second vote twice.
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“Leaving the polling place,” she said, “I wondered how many voters might not have noticed that their vote was switched on the machine.”
Has there EVER been any voting irregularity which transfers a Republican selection to their Democratic rival?
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5 Comments
October 18, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Here is something which smells of election fraud.
Not voter registration fraud, which is not a very nice thing to do but does not in itself have anything to do with stolen elections.
Now, if I were ACORN, and I wanted to register a bunch of people who didn’t really exist (so I could conceivably vote in their place), I don’t think I would draw attention to the fact that I was doing so by registering dead celebrities and cartoon characters, which would send up flags right away.
I tend to think that voter fraud is as likely to be committed by a dishonest Republican as a dishonest Democrat. Except even Republicans would be smart enough to not register as “Mickey Mouse” if they actually intended to vote illegally.
October 18, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Computer glitches have a conservative bias.
October 18, 2008 at 4:07 pm
“People make mistakes more than the machines,” he said, “but I went in yesterday and recalibrated the machines. We are doing everything we can not to disenfranchise anybody.”
Is it just me being picky, or isn’t it possible to make machines user friendly? I don’t think it’s too much to ask that these machines be more than easy to use.
I’m glad people are voting early — the cheating will be exposed far and wide before election day.
October 19, 2008 at 2:56 pm
“Has there EVER been any voting irregularity which transfers a Republican selection to their Democratic rival?”
I don’t know, but it’s not necessary. ACORN is already taking care of the fraud. (What is it now? Under investigation in 13 states? But we’re supposed to believe that Obama has this in the bag. Uh huh.)
Meanwhile, you’re posting on the discrepancy of ONE MACHINE at ONE polling place.
The posts at this blog remind me of the Stalinist media’s unwritten rules: magnify and blow out of proportion anything that might make Republicans look bad; ignore or minimize anything that might do the same to Democrats.
October 19, 2008 at 2:58 pm
You clearly have no idea what ACORN does, tsfiles.
I’m sorry you find the post on this blog troublesome. Run on back to your silly blog now, the crickets are lonely.
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