The red state story looks sort of like one person's blog, worded exactly as this post. Isanyone hearing this on any other news source? The incidents described sound incredibly dramatic. Why would you pour white out on anything? Let's get some confirmation here.
They should just use the old Brooklyn method. Check the totals on the machine. If it's not what you want, toss the entire machine into the Gowanus Canal. Clean and neat. And nobody notices that 3,000 machines went to the polling places, but only 2,700 came back.