Posted on 10/27/2014 2:49:36 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Voting machines that switch Republican votes to Democrats are being reported in Maryland.
“When I first selected my candidate on the electronic machine, it would not put the ‘x’ on the candidate I chose — a Republican — but it would put the ‘x’ on the Democrat candidate above it,” Donna Hamilton said.
“This happened multiple times with multiple selections. Every time my choice flipped from Republican to Democrat. Sometimes it required four or five tries to get the ‘x’ to stay on my real selection,” the Frederick, Md., resident said last week.
Queen Anne County Sheriff Gary Hofmann said he encountered the problem, too, personally.
“This is happening here as well. It occurred on two candidates on my machine. I am glad I checked. Many voters have reported this here as well,” Hofmann, a Republican, wrote in an email Sunday evening.
Two other Maryland voters reported the same in Anne Arundel County on Friday.
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I’m sure it’s all just an innocent coincidence.
If the machine doesn’t work properly, do they have the option of a paper ballot vote in precincts with these god-damned machines?
FTA, as reported by Watchdog.org:
A similar vote switch turned up in Chicago earlier last week.
Illinois Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to the Schaumburg Public Library last Monday to vote for himself. “Instead, it cast the vote for my opponent,” Moynihan told Watchdog.org.
“You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat,” Moynihan said.
He notified the election judge at his polling place and demonstrated that it continued to cast a vote for the opposing candidate’s party. Moynihan was eventually allowed to vote for Republican candidates, including his own race.
Back in Maryland, two voters in Anne Arundel County experienced the same problem: A Diebold touchscreen voting machine switched their Republican votes to Democrats. The voters had to cancel their votes and start over.
Joe Torre, election director in Anne Arundel, called it a “calibration issue” involving a single machine.
Hamilton said she notified officials of the problem she encountered at the Frederick County Center, where she voted. “I’m not sure what was done about it. If someone is not paying close attention, they could end up voting for the wrong candidate,” she said.
Voting machines that switch Republican votes to Democrats are being reported...?
Pitchfork and torches time!!!
They do here. But, if you are not paying close attantion, you won't realize that the machine is mis-behaving (or behaving just as someone in the programmer's office wants it to.)
An electro-mechanical device is set up to do one task. Instead it does something completely different. That is not a “calibration” issue.
This was intentional.
They were rampant in 2012 as well, just sparsely reported.
Talk about blatant fraud.
I was afraid of this. Yelling and screaming about voter ID while the real fraud was being perpetrated at the source.
calibration issue? How come I have never heard of a single “calibration issue” that switches Rat votes to Pub, ever?
Voter fraud = negligible
Election fraud = end of the Republic
Here (Wisconsin) we have the option of 2 different ways to vote. Paper, or Touch Screen. But, there is a big difference in the Chief Inspectors at the polls. Some of them really push Touch Screen because it makes counting easy at the end of the night — no messy paper ballots to account for.
I’ve worked at the polls for more than 10 years. One of the Chief Inspectors where I worked would not allow her voters to use the Touch Screen because she really did not trust it, understand it, or know how to set it up and take it down. The other Chief Inspector wanted to FORCE her voters to use the Touch Screen, even when they were uncomfortable doing so.
In every state no doubt.
“An electro-mechanical device is set up to do one task. Instead it does something completely different. That is not a “calibration” issue.”
Except, you may be misstating the facts. The device is set up to take input from the touchscreen, and judge by the location of that input what selection on the screen the user wanted to select. It did that. It didn’t do something “completely different” from that task.
Now, if it judged the location wrong or associated it with the wrong selection, that is a big issue, but it could very well be due to some sort of calibration.
In this state mail in ballots would be paper ballots. You can go back and check those easily, unless you have a real crook at the court house who wants to substitute other ballots.
calibration issue? How come I have never heard of a single “calibration issue” that switches Rat votes to Pub, ever?
BINGO!
IMHO, every place where this “error” is reported needs to recall the machines, recall the votes, and hold the election all over again, under armed gurd, if necessary.
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