Posted on 11/04/2014 12:18:27 PM PST by mbarker12474
UPDATED: November 4, 2014 2:22 p.m.
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) — Malfunctioning voting machines are causing issues for voters in several Virginia precincts, the Republican Party of Virginia says.
RPV wrote a letter to the Virginia Department of Elections this morning stating there were problems with some of the electronic voting touch screens in at least four different Congressional Districts.
“Voters have difficulty selecting the candidate of their choice using the touch screen because the screen’s touch sensor is not properly aligned with the text that appears on the screen,” a RPV spokesman said in the letter.
A video link included in the letter shows a machine malfunction when someone tries to select the Republican candidate on the ballot:
Below are the precincts where RPV says the issue is happening:
Arlington County Ballston-0004
Prince William County Buckland Mills-0110
Spotsylvania County Gayle-0704
City of Virginia Beach Bonney-040 Centreville-044Bayside Great Neck Stratford Chase Acredale Colonial Alanton Witchduck Sherry Park Homestead Green Run
The Virginia Department of Elections confirmed that some voters reported having a different selection appear after making their choice on the electronic ballot.
The department released a statement later Tuesday afternoon in response to the issue.
“Virginia Beach and Newport News are experiencing technical difficulties with their AccuVote TSX Touch Screen voting machines,” the Dept. of Elections said. “These technical difficulties are being addressed by both localities’ teams of voting equipment technicians in conjunction with AccuVote vendors. Based on discussions with local election officials, the issues appear related to touch screen calibration.”
The elections department says voters should double check their selections before submitting their ballots. It also says any machines that show issues are immediately taken out of service and there are still plenty of other machines for voters at the affected locations.
(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...
2. This article is about this phenomenon occuring at VIRGINIA locations. (The dateline of the article is, curiously, from Maryland. For a DC news station.)
3. Congressman Rob Wittman, from the 1st Congressional District in Virginia, asks on his Facebook pages for voters to report problems. This issue has come to his attention and concern.
My son is a developer and says this is not a calibration issue.
Voting machines are not malfunctioning. They are behaving exactly as they have been setup to behave. The unexpected thing is that folks are noticing the fraud and making noise.
Do ya' notice that the "calibration" only goes in one direction: Republican over to the Demorats.
Calibration? What are they using for voting machines, Oscilloscopes?
Voting fraud, in whatever form it takes and wherever it happens, always benefits the Democrats. Just saying...
This IS a rat vote theft issue. Plain to see. Any precinct this gets reported in a race that a rat wins should be contested and a re-vote with paper ballots should be demanded.
It is possible for these screens to not be calibrated properly, but when that’s the case, the “misses” are in completely random places all over the screen, and not always in one direction only. So their explanation is indeed nonsense.
1970’s Kenwood speaker magnets.
Hey CBS News, how often do these “calibration issues” change votes from Democrat to Republican? Get back to us on that ASAP, OK? Because they’re NOT calibration issues... They’re settings.
In Texas - Some electronic machines omit the Republican candidate for Governor
Still waiting to hear of the first case of Democrat votes being changed to Republican. Odd how it’s always the other way around. Some election officials should be charged with vote fraud, because this happens every election now.
If anyone can be honest here, has there been even one report of a “mis-calibrated” voting machine changing a DEM vote to something else?
I'm waiting for the news report that a vote intended for a Dem has go to a Republican...still waiting......still waiting...still waiting.........still waiting...
Can I ask a stupid question?
They say that if these problems arise, that the malfunctioning machine is taken out of service. My stupid question is what about all of the people who already voted on that machine?, Are their votes still counted if the machine is taken away?
At least these guys can see that they have a problem. Here in Oakland I just spent about 15 minutes marking a paper ballot. I then watched the Poll Worker feed that ballot into....a machine. But I have no idea if that machine recorded my vote properly or not....
If its a calibration issue EVERY selection would be off.... IE any touch would register off by the same amount, not just individual ballot choices.
The only possible “calibration issue” would be with the touch screen detecting that you’re touching a different spot than you are.
But when every calibration problem works in the favor of democrats, there has to be some human intent involved.
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