This is what a voting "glitch" actually looks like...

CRASHR ^ | 11-6-14 | The Looking Spoon

[FateAmenableToChange]

Voting fraud should be death penalty eligible.

[The Looking Spoon]

Nor do I!

[TexasGunLover]

What you’re looking at is a resistive touchscreen alignment error, and nothing more. Were you to reverse the two candidates, the same thing would occur.

[oh8eleven]

why are these glitches always found in favor of Democrats?
And except for Bush/Gore 2000, when was the last time a recount went in favor of the GOP?

[Albion Wilde]

I had it happen to my ballot, and had to go back twice and correct it. To be fair, the only possible neutral explanation is that the democrat name appears below the republican name, and the machine is responding to heat sensitivity from the thumb below the pointing finger.

Still, ridiculous. And likely the developers calibrated it just that way. If necessary, they could tie a stylus to each machine to provide a precise selection.

[Buckeye McFrog]

THE PROGRAMMERS SHOULD BE TRACKED DOWN AND PROSECUTED

Sounds like a job for Hyderabad CSI

[pierrem15]

Same BS when its a close election: ever notice how they almost always break for Dems? I saw a study recently that showed that in races decided by less than 2%, the Dems win 80%-90% of the time, which is statistically impossible.

The margin of fraud appears to be about 1%-3% of votes cast.

[pierrem15]

If so, how was the vote for Gillespie above cast? I would think a calibration error would affect the whole screen, so that a touch position would be _uniformly_ off by X and Y pixels for every position, and not just some.

[Cyclone59]

THE PROGRAMMERS SHOULD BE TRACKED DOWN AND PROSECUTED.

agreed. Computers do EXACTLY what they are told to do. Period, end of story.

[Marcella]

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