Oh, yeah, sure... NOW it's a PROBLEM!

[roguenkatz]

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Who will investigate?: 9:22 PM

If state election officials do find voting irregularities raised by Republicans today, investigations would be performed by individual district attorneys in the affected counties, or the office of state Attorney General Tom Corbett, Mr. Corbett said tonight.

"Until we get a referral from the secretary of state that there is something to be followed up on, at this point in time -- 8:50 p.m. -- we are not doing anything until we get further information," Mr. Corbett said.

While expressing skepticism about whether yesterday's problems, if they existed, constituted fraud, Mr. Corbett, a Republican, expressed reservations about the handling of electronic voting machines at his own polling place in Allegheny County. Mr. Corbett said he was concerned that screens, blocking voters from view as they cast their ballots, were not in place.

"The privacy of the vote certainly isn't there," he said.

Additionally, he said, no practice machine was visible for voters to familiarize themselves with the technology.

Mr. Corbett said the state has received a letter complaining of irregularities in voting machines in more than a dozen Pennsylvania counties during today's elections.

Mr. Corbett, putting in an appearance at the campaign headquarters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann, said Lawrence Tabas, general counsel for the Republican committee had written to Secretary of State Pedro Cortes complaining of glitches in the voting machines.

A copy of the letter was forwarded to Mr. Corbett.

According to Mr. Corbett, the complaint says that voters complained that, after casting votes for Republican Senator Rick Santorum and Mr. Swann, they saw their votes switch on the electronic screen from the Republican candidates to Democrats Robert P. Casey Jr. and incumbent Gov. Edward Rendell.

Last night, Sen. Santorum's campaign also complained of voter fraud in the election, citing similar allegations.

"There is no indication at this point that there intentional fraud," Mr. Corbett said. "What I would take from that is that if there was anything, maybe there was a mechanical malfunction."

-- Dennis B. Roddy

Boo fucking hoo!

[greenbriar]

1. bwhahahahahaha

suck it jerks

[Deja Q]

2. 'mechanical'?!!

:rofl:

They mean 'electronic', or even 'programming error'.

Mechanical implies something that cannot apply.

Maybe repubs shouldn't have frothed over electronic voting in the first place? It worked for them in 2002 and 2004 and nobody cried foul despite all the pre-election problems. Why should they complain now?

[Danascot]

3. I believe the appropriate response is

Get over it.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

4. get over it

[magellan]

5. Too bad if Repugs aren't smart enough to use the equipment right.

How's it feel, you bastards? No sympathy.

BTW, I don't believe this for a minute because all these glitches have worked the other way so far. More likely the GOP are making it up, knowing what the complaints were before (which they never acted on because they were from Dem voters)...but hey, if it gets to court and they win, it's a win for DEMOCRACY when we GET RID OF THE MACHINES!!