Happened to me during the Sharon Angle campaign.
I voted for Sharon and it switched over to Harry Reid.
I started yelling, “SOMEONE GET OVER HER, MY VOTE SWITCHED OVER TO HARRY REID AND I WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR HIM.”
Looked like a lot of Dems working there. They fixed it quickly.
And you will never know if your vote really registered for Angle or not.
You just pressed a button and trusted the computer to do what you thought it was going to do.
They fix it for people who yell. I bet a lot of people don’t even notice the switch. Those votes go through and get lost in the shuffle.
The whole process is terrible.
I thought they’d clean the business up after Bush/Gore in 2000 but I don’t think either party really cared.
Same thing happened to Mr. b in a recent local election. He was able to go back and fix it but that’s not to say that somewhere between “Submit” and the count it didn’t get flipped again. He tried to report it to the workers but they just gave him blank stares. He then called the local GOP office who called back two weeks later to say their investigation didn’t reveal anything. Yeah, well, two weeks later is a bit late in a close election.