Sunday, October 26, 2008

Tennessee Voting Machines Switching Votes


Voting machines in Tennessee are switching votes for John McCain to votes for Barack Obama? Is this payback for the crimes of past elections? Or are voting machines one big joke? I vote for the latter. In West Virginia, machines are switching votes from Republican to Democrat.

And how is it that West Virginia voters have the security of a paper trail, while Tennessee voters do not?

At least three voters complained of the problem while casting their ballot in early voting last Saturday. It's the same problem early voters in several West Virginia counties reported having this week when they tried to vote, except their votes for Obama and other Democratic candidates were switched to McCain and other Republican candidates.

As I reported Monday, early voters in at least three West Virginia counties complained that when they tried to vote for Democratic candidates in the presidential, gubernatorial and senate races, the machines registered their votes for other, Republican, candidates instead.

Report voting problems here.

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