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Faulty Voting Machines in the US?

Posted By: Dave Bradley · 11/6/2012 1:52:00 PM

Already there's controversy in the US when it comes to the Presidential Election.

A video that was first posted to Reddit this morning, has taken off and become viral.

It shows the inside of a voting station, and the screen where voters make their choices. When the voter tries to select Obama, the check mark appears beside Romney's name.

centralpavote was the Reddit user who posted the video and also added this:

“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.”

Conspiracy theories aside, officials have suggested there was nothing evil at work here, more like a poorly calibrated voting machine.

 

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  1. JC posted on 11/06/2012 05:11 PM
    the effort to not properly calibrate this machine is the evil.
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