Machine turns a vote for Obama into one for Romney

[CjmonXIII 110]

 

The voter tells what happened:

 

My wife and I went to the voting booths this morning before work. There were 4 older ladies running the show and 3 voting booths that are similar to a science fair project in how they fold up. They had an oval VOTE logo on top center and a cartridge

on the left that the volunteers used to start your ballot.

I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a

, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney’s name and started tapping very closely together to find the ‘active areas’. From the top of Romney’s button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama’s name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein’s button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.

I asked the voters on either side of me if they had any problems and they reported they did not. I then called over a volunteer to have a look at it. She him hawed for a bit then calmly said “It’s nothing to worry about, everything will be OK.” and went back to what she was doing. I then recorded this video.

There is a lot of speculation that the footage is edited. I’m not a video guy, but if it’s possible to prove whether a video has been altered or not, I will GLADLY provide the raw footage to anyone who is willing to do so. The jumping frames are a result of the shitty camera app on my Android phone, nothing more.

 

Source: http://tv.msnbc.com/...one-for-romney/

 

This is what really gets me:She him hawed for a bit then calmly said “It’s nothing to worry about, everything will be OK.”

 

Edited November 7, 2012 by CjmonXIII

[Rizzyy 736]

dammit i was about to post this issue oh well but yea that pretty bad

Edited November 7, 2012 by FLASH45

[darkchaser 788]

Yea i don't we are ready to have voting by computers if this is popping up

[FireRubies1 1,325]

This sounds awful @.@

[Destiny_of_a_Key_Bearer 82]

Its totally rigged

[King Riku 2,063]

If this is the reason Obama loses, because people didn't pay attention when Romney was highlighted, I'm going to be pissed

[Weiss 8,279]

Well this isn't good.

[HikariYami 354]

It will be a riot if Romeny wins.

[HarLea Quinn 26,501]

Ummmm This was also happening to people trying to vote for Romney getting Obama instead .. They are aware of the problem and fixed it.

[Xalaru 445]

Yeah I watched that vid earlier; I'm not even American but I do want Obama to win.

[Rob 5,571]

The Campaign.

[CjmonXIII 110]

If this is the reason Obama loses, because people didn't pay attention when Romney was highlighted, I'm going to be pissed

 

That'll be seriously messed up, but i trust that Obama voters will have the instinct to CHECK their votes after casting them........hopefully

[Roxas Seeking Light 93]

Hard to believe we live in a world where such things would be rigged.

[Oishii 3,987]

Yea i don't we are ready to have voting by computers if this is popping up

 

Exactly. Doesn't everyone know technology is bound to fail when you need it the most?

[Robbie the Wise 5,050]

I love how this topic only adresses Obama's votes.

[CjmonXIII 110]

I love how this topic only adresses Obama's votes.

 

I wasn't aware of Romney's votes having problems at the time. I saw an article about it after i posted this topic so that's y i only addressed Obama's.