[USA] midterm elections rife with voting machine anomolies

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Title: Watch This Virginia Voting Machine Select the Candidate This Voter Didn’t Vote For
Author: Kate Scanlon
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:41:55 -0500
Link: http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/04/watch-virginia-voting-machine-select-candidate-voter-didnt-vote/

An anonymous Virginia voter has posted a YouTube video[1] of a voting machine
selecting the wrong candidate.

In the video, the voter attempts to select Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., but the
box next to his opponent, Democrat Suzanne Patrick, is selected instead.

The YouTube user, VaBeach23451[2], wrote in the video’s description: “The
voting machine cast a ballot for the Democrat when I was touching Republican. I
notified the poll worker and he said it’s a calibration issue. Funny thing is,
it did not happen on the next page with other ballots.”

Rigell’s office said that they received similar complaints and issued the
following statement:

We have received numerous, credible reports of poll machine irregularity at
voting precincts in Virginia’s Second Congressional District. This is very
troubling. It is critical that every voter verifies the final summary page
before pushing the ‘cast ballot’ option.

“Every error is going against my campaign and in favor of my challenger,”
Rigell added to ABC 13[3].

The Virginia Republican Party wrote in a letter[4] to the Virginia Department
of Elections: “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.”

According to ABC 13, the affected machines have been replaced:

The Virginia Department of Elections now says 32 voting machines at 25
different precincts in Virginia Beach showed signs of irregularities and had
to be pulled out of service. This is out of the 820 machines being used in
the city for the election.

WAVY[5] notes that it is “not against the law in Virginia to use your phone
while at the polls, according to the Virginia State Board of Elections.”

According to the Huffington Post[6], the affected voters “were ultimately able
to switch their votes back.”

The post Watch This Virginia Voting Machine Select the Candidate This Voter
Didn’t Vote For[7] appeared first on Daily Signal[8].

Links:
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=St25jdBdtmE (link)
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONceEQZF_p5dX9VwcpPuPg (link)
[3]: http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/04/state-confirms-voting-machine-glitch/18468557/ (link)
[4]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/245506827/Voting-Machine-Issues-Letter (link)
[5]: http://wavy.com/2014/11/04/several-voters-report-machine-errors-in-hampton-roads/ (link)
[6]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/voting-machines-broken_n_6101312.html (link)
[7]: http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/04/watch-virginia-voting-machine-select-candidate-voter-didnt-vote/ (link)
[8]: http://dailysignal.com (link)