PA Voting Machine turns Obama votes into Romney Votes. REALLY?

[Yssup Rider]

Here's the story:

http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machi...ne-for-romney/

A Pennsylvania electronic voting machine has been taken out of service after being captured on video changing a vote for President Obama into one for Mitt Romney, NBC News has confirmed. Republicans have also said machines have turned Romney votes into Obama ones.

The video was first posted on Youtube by user “centralpavoter.” It shows a voter’s finger repeatedly pressing the button for Obama, but a check mark coming up next to Romney’s name:

NBC News confirmed that the machine has been taken off line.
Underneath the video, the user gave an account of 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 slot 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 software developer, 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.

Separately, the RNC last week sent a letter (pdf) to elections officials in six other states, including Ohio, Nevada, and Colorado, raising concerns that machines had wrongly counted votes for Romney as ones for Obama, and asking them to address the problem.

Late Update,2:35pm: A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State told Mother Jones a machine that showed that problem, likely the same one, is back online after being “recalibrated.”

FUCKING CHEATERS! PROBABLY ONE OF THOSE ROMNEY OWNED MACHINES!

[CJ7]

Memo;

if you cant cut the days, cut the hours the polls are open, when that doesnt work out exactly as planned, tweak the voting machines.

The GOP

[markroxny]

Is anyone really surprised by this? Romney can't win without certain states, so they are going to try to steal them.

I'm just glad this was caught.

[Yssup Rider]

From the same people who brought you WATERGATE, NICARAGUA AND WMD's ... not to mention hanging chads!

[tttalinky]

[Yssup Rider]

You are fast moving up the ladder in the dipshit of the year race for 2013.

Where have you been titty?

[CJ7]

Originally Posted by tttalinky

The majority of the funding for ACORN took place under the executive guidance of none other than George W, according to the Congressional record. Every year during the Bush administration, ACORN Housing Corporation received more than $1 million (from 2001, when George Bush became president, until 2008, the Bush administration provided over $13 million to ACORN), for such things as housing counseling and working to prevent predatory lending in low-income communities. And many Republicans who are now screaming bloody murder and spinning fantasies about billions of dollars in funding for ACORN (such as loony-tunes Michelle Bachmann, who was probably given this information by a space alien), as well as accusing ACORN of being the cause of the housing crisis, were sitting right there when Bush handed out the dough
Source(s):

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article…
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Congr…

[icuminpeace]

Since machines having been switching votes on both sides, perhaps things will balance out at the end (being sarcastic, of course).

[Yssup Rider]

I don't know about that, but NOW the Romney campaign is saying they think Pennsylvania is back in play for them. Suddenly. Yesterday, they'd written it off.

This shit is gonna get real dirty before its over with.

[CuteOldGuy]

Well, you are right about that, Assup. I think this is the first time you've been right about anything! Congratulations!

[bojulay]

The machine was smarter than the Obamaton
that was voting on it.

Even the machines can't stand the thought of
four more years of Obimbo.


ha ha ha ha