The 2012 election relied more heavily on technology,including digital voting,than ever before. While voters came out en masse to narrowly re-elect President Barack Obama,not everything went exactly as planned. There were plenty of examples of broken and malfunctioning voting machines,a flawed email voting scheme in New Jersey and other problems.
Reports of problems with voting machines started even before Election Day. On Monday,the Ohio Green Party chairman filed suit seeking removal of software upgrades on voting machines in 39 Ohio counties because they were not tested or certified as required by law. Early voters in Pueblo,Colo.,and Adams County,Colo.,reported that voting machines were changing their votes.
One of the big stories on election day was a video,initially posted to YouTube and Reddit,of an electronic voting machine in Perry County,Penn.,repeatedly changing a vote for President Obama to one for Mitt Romney. The video,which received more than 500,000 views throughout the day,showed the error in real time as the voter pressed next to President Obama’s name only to have Mitt Romney’s name selected.
According to reports,the machine was taken out of service once the problem was indicated,but was later recalibrated and placed online,with no further problem reports.
Machines changing votes weren’t the only problem of the day. In many locations,there were examples of machines that were on the fritz. For example,in heavily populated Cuyahoga County in swing state Ohio,there were a number of reports that ballot counting machines were jammed,with some having to be replaced,despite having been tested before Election Day.
Read More at informationweek.com . By J. Nicholas Hoover.
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Just headaches? I'd say the country lost its heart! Voters reported a vote for Romney went to Obama.
The NBPP was in Philadelphia;
Voters in Ohio were turned away at the door…telling them "they had already voted."
The Military vote was dismissed and never counted;
The mentally challenged were "told"who to vote for;
Obama held a campaign rally with Stevie Wonder and only 200 people showed up whereas,Romney held one at Red Rock where thousands upon thousands showed up for support. It appeared to be as up and exciting as a rock concert of the 1960's!!
I have a question…Romney never questioned…never confronted the issue. Obama's polls were at an all time low while other polls being painfully inaccurate. Obama went so far as to file a law suit against Gallop because his numbers were so bad.
Our Country has been hijacked by a Muslim Trojan Horse.
My question is:"Did Romney pull a McCain and just allow the Obama machine to run over him?"
Where is the investigation?
Our Country has been hijacked by a Muslim Trojan Horse.