Posted on 10/20/2014 4:58:28 PM PDT by knak
Problems were reported in the Northwest suburbs of Cook County on the first day of early voting Monday -- including one case of a Republican candidate being unable to vote for himself or other members of his party on a touch screen.
The other issue, which occurred at Arlington Heights village hall and a few other locations, involved the wrong signatures popping up for voters who came in to cast ballots.
Both issues were addressed as soon as election judges were made aware of them, and they did not interfere with voters being able to cast ballots in the way they chose Monday, said Jim Scalzitti, deputy communications director for the Cook County clerk's office.
Representatives of the Cook County state's attorney's office said they received no reports or requests to look into polling place irregularities.
Republican Jim Moynihan, who's challenging Democratic incumbent state Rep. Michelle Mussman in the 56th District House race, said his initial attempts to vote for himself Monday at the Schaumburg Township District Library ended up registering votes for his opponent.
And when he tried to vote for fellow Republican Larry Kaifesh in the 8th Congressional District race, his screen registered a vote for Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth.
When he pointed it out to a judge, it was determined that the machine hadn't been calibrated correctly, he said. He ultimately was able to vote for the candidates he chose by pressing the very bottom right hand corner of the screen. Pressing the center of each button resulted in the opposite candidate's name registering.
Scalzitti said the machine in question was removed from service to be recalibrated immediately and that there were no other reports of voters having similar problems.
The other problem of the day affected more people in the northwest corner of the county, Scalzitti said.
Tony Novak, who's lived in his Arlington Heights condominium for 31 years, said another name he's never heard of came up as the registered voter at his address when he went to the polls at Arlington Heights village hall.
Scalzitti said there apparently were misnamed signature files that would cause the wrong signature to come up for a voter at several Northwest suburban polling places.
The problem was addressed by replacing the misnamed signature files with the correct files, Scalzitti said. There did not appear to be a problem with either the voting hardware or the software, just the naming of the files themselves, he said.
Affected voters had to sign an extra ballot label to be able to cast their votes, Scalzitti said. The problem was believed to be taken care of in a way that would prevent voters on Tuesday from being affected, he said.
Novak agreed that the discrepancy was fixed immediately and it did not compromise his ability to vote.
2012 all over again.. It has become increasingly clear that 0bama stole that sumbich.
We voted in Texas today and nothing like this happened. Wonder why these things happen in Democrat states, hmmmm???
>> Republican Jim Moynihan, who’s challenging Democratic incumbent state Rep. Michelle Mussman in the 56th District House race, said his initial attempts to vote for himself Monday at the Schaumburg Township District Library ended up registering votes for his opponent.
>> And when he tried to vote for fellow Republican Larry Kaifesh in the 8th Congressional District race, his screen registered a vote for Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth.
A “calibration” error.
From Arizona.
Surveillance Video Apparently Catches Guy Doing Something at the Ballot Box That Left Republican Monitor Stunned
The guy has a freakin box of ballots.
Really. Nobody finds it curious in Illinois that the Rats had no trouble voting. I say again, screwing with MY vote should be a capital offense.
No doubt whatsoever.
where is the little dancer today....
His subjects are tweaking the votes....
They can go back tomorrow and do it again and the next day and the next day and...............
How does this happen? Seriously, how does this keep happening?
Where are the Republican poll watchers? Where are the lawyers?
Where are the stinkin' lawsuits?!
This is definitely a problem. It's supposed to accept the votes for Republicans, but record them as Democrat votes.
I don’t trust any machine that doesn’t keep the actual paper ballot. That’s what we use now but I understand it’s going to change to fully electronic machine that can be manipulated in many ways and will give the results those in charge want. They probably want to keep someone like Chris McDaniel from getting 70% of the county vote again.
You hear of this happening every election and I believe it’s ALWAYS recording Republican votes for democrats.
Once is happenstance, twice coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
“Both issues were addressed as soon as election judges were made aware of them, and they did not interfere with voters being able to cast ballots in the way they chose...”
...but changed to Democratic after the voter finished and the screen cleared!
How come elections aren’t invalidated when stuff like this happens? There are rarely any arrests, and nobody seems to want to do anything about it. Why is this allowed to happen time after time?
You would think that this being in Maricopa County, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's people should have arrested this sleazebag by now - if the incident was reported to his office and is on surveillance video as it is. What do you think the chances are that the perp is an illegal immigrant? (If that's the case, I'm sure he'll be defended and supported by the left as a "DREAMer." Isn't that what Obama's executive order would call him?)
What do you think of arming some election officials at the polls as a deterrent to this kind of crime?
that and a small army of Smart Phone Armed..”civilians”...to keep an eye on things....
a Republican candidate being unable to vote for himself or other members of his party on a touch screen.
That isn’t a problem, that is what early fraud is all about....
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