MSNBC and many other news sources have broadcast this You Tube, made by a Pennsylvania voter who intended to vote for President Obama. As his video shows, he repeatedly touched the Obama line on the touchscreen, but the machine always then lit up the Romney line. The voter, who says he is a programmer, then tested the machine by touching the Jill Stein line, which is directly below the Obama line. He thought that the machine might be making a generic mistake and always recording the vote for the line above the line that was touched. But, that theory wasn’t correct, because when he touched the Stein line, the machine lit up for Stein.
None of the news stories seem to indicate the name of the county in Pennsylvania. But news reports say the machine was then taken out of circulation. There have been similar complaints in other states by Republicans who say they experienced the same problem, that their attempt to vote for Romney registered a vote for Obama.
Perhaps the bigger problem is it seems from this video that PA has a straight ticket device! ARGH
I’ve heard of these reports from both sides. I really don’t believe any funny business is going on. I just believe the machines need re-calibrating since reports say many are getting old. Where I vote it’s electronic but we use this spinning type thing that brings the highlighter on to the candidate or referendum etc and you click a button when it lands on your candidate to vote for them. I like this way rather then the touchscreens which seems to have so many problems.
In Kentucky, it’s illegal to have cameras in the voting booth, as it is a way to verify that someone voted for a certain person in vote-buying cases. Is it legal in Pennsylvania to have cameras there?
Even the voting machines have trouble telling Obama and Romney apart 🙂
All snail mail paper scanner ballots.
Add the E-voting machines to the history junkyard along with the infamous punch card ballot devices.
@3… probably a cell phone. They all have cameras in them nowadays.
It was in Perry County, which is a rural county northwest of Harrisburg. That is what the election workers were discussing in our polling place.
@4 — LOL
Once again, how about the Internet? If the governments can’t figure out how to do that securely, they can hire F&FE Foundation to do it for them. Their IRV after the first “3rd Party” debate was pretty slick.
I think at this stage even though it would make a transition to Instant run off less practical; i think that it is obvious that paper ballots and manual counting are the only way to go if you want to ensure fairer and more transparent counting in the usa.
Our election “process” is a worldwide embarassment.
@6 Celphone camera would work.lol… @4 I like that, the machines can embarrass sometimes..
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