Magic Vote Changing Machines Come to West Virginia

by: West Virginia Lover

Sun Oct 19, 2008 at 14:32:37 PM EDT

Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week.

This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for "Barack Obama" kept flipping to "John McCain".

The Gazette observes that the two counties where problems have occurred have Republican oversight of voting.  The Republicans in those counties decline to address the problem; instead, they blame voter errors.

The Republicans have played their little reindeer games now in two election cycles.  We're all on to their little bag of tricks.  If they think we'll sit back and let them steal a third national election, they should seek psychiatric assistance.  Not even our obtuse and all-forgiving media seems to be missing the shenanigans.

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Update from Carnacki

From an email from the Campaign for Change:

We WANT people to go vote. We want them to feel confident and we want them to vote early. If any voter has any problems while voting, we want them to remain calm. Ask a poll worker for assistance, explain the problem, and work it out so their vote is counted properly. The best thing that can happen is a voter get the help they need while at the polling place so we don't have to ever worry about complaints after the fact.

Of course, if something is not resolved and voter has already left the polling place, we have a team in place to ascertain what happened and make sure there is not a systemic problem. Anyone who has such a problem can call the campaign HQ at (304) 341-0205 and speak with a  field organizer to leave their information and the specifics of their problem so we can pass it on to the Voter Protection team.