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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel: "Pennsylvania machine that turned Obama vote into Romney vote has been taken offline."
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.
The video was first posted on Youtube by user centralpavoter. It shows a voters finger repeatedly pressing the button for Obama, but a check mark coming up next to Romneys name:
The video was first posted on Youtube by user centralpavoter. It shows a voters finger repeatedly pressing the button for Obama, but a check mark coming up next to Romneys name:
MORE (including the video):
http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machine-turns-vote-for-obama-into-one-for-romney/
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Rachel: "Pennsylvania machine that turned Obama vote into Romney vote has been taken offline." (Original Post)
ProfessionalLeftist
Nov 2012
OP
I hope if there are more out there, voters will RAISE HELL about it - very publicly
ProfessionalLeftist
Nov 2012
#4
I just heard a woman call up Al Sharpton on his radio show to report on this
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2012
#7
at least now we know why Repigs and their pundits for hire believe PA will be so close
Supersedeas
Nov 2012
#18
The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)1. So how many more of these cheating machines are out there?
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)4. I hope if there are more out there, voters will RAISE HELL about it - very publicly
And feed the story to the media. Nobody else seems interested in protecting our voting rights. We have to do it ourselves.
BumRushDaShow
(128,500 posts)7. I just heard a woman call up Al Sharpton on his radio show to report on this
so it's trickling out there... She said that CNN showed it.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)5. That's my question also. eom
realgreen
(47 posts)10. We'll never know since the GOP made it illegal to make these recordings
Only a few of these videos and pictures are going to be released because of the fear of getting arrested and having your life ruined by the police.
msongs
(67,361 posts)2. one machine down and unknown thousands more to disqualify nt
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)18. at least now we know why Repigs and their pundits for hire believe PA will be so close
Alleycat
(1,117 posts)3. Don't they realize that everything can be recorded now a days!
I don't think Mitt got that memo either!
jenw2
(374 posts)9. Everything can't. Some states make what that hero did a crime
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)13. worth the penalty - I would take that court fight
in a heartbeat
Alleycat
(1,117 posts)16. Me too!
closeupready
(29,503 posts)19. Ditto. IMO, defense strategies abound.
I'm not a lawyer, but just saying, that's what I think.
BumRushDaShow
(128,500 posts)6. Philly doesn't use those types of machines
thank goodness. Ours are not "touch screen" computer monitor-looking things like that.
NotThisTime
(3,657 posts)8. How many people used this machine to vote before it being taken offline?
Bigleaf
(2,050 posts)11. That really is the question, isn't it?
hughee99
(16,113 posts)17. The REAL question is how many Obama voters used it?
Romney voters wouldn't have been affected by the issue.
marlakay
(11,427 posts)12. that was my first thought! nt
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)14. Why aren't more people
... raising holy hell over this?
Helen Reddy
(998 posts)15. I voted on paper ballots
this morning in Wisconsin.
Goooooo Tammy Baldwin!