Reply #11: I'm certain every place is different in voting and there was a "glitch"...

[IStriker]

at the place I vote on one machine. First, the state sent out no sample ballots this time which I've never seen before. The machine my husband used had no race on it for State Attorney General, just the one machine as far as I know. Mine had it, but there were 3 others being used, 2 that we don't know about. When he noticed and complained, they couldn't explain it; unplugged the machine and let him vote on another (not mine), but there's no way to tell how many voted before him on that one and didn't notice. As for your question, some elections you can vote a straight ticket and when you do, you can't skip any race (or you can choose to vote races one by one) but the same screens come up at the end, and you haven't voted until you push "finish."

I'm not crazy about this method of voting because there is no paper trail. We may have one of the better systems because I can't see any way you would not know if there was any rigging other than what happened with my husband - in other words leave the race off in a heavily Democrat area so nobody could vote for either candidate and the Democrat would suffer the most, but sooner or later (probably real soon if it was the top of the ticket) somebody would notice.

We vote in a very Republican precinct and the AG race was called for the Democrat early in the evening. By morning when they had counted all the rural parts of PA, they gave the race to the Republican by a good bit. I have no idea if this was part of an attempt to rig a race or just someone's error.