posted October 22, 2014 05:30 PM
Early voting has gotten off to a rocky start in Illinois.Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan told Watchdog.org that he tried to cast a vote for himself, but that his voting machine cast a vote for his opponent instead.
"You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat," Moynihan said.
The Cook County Board of Elections Deputy Communications Director Jim Scalzitti said the machine's failure was "a calibration error of the touch-screen on the machine," and that Moynihan's votes were not actually registered. Scalzitti said that voters are always asked to double-check their votes before they're counted.
http://theweek.com/article/index/270431/speedreads-illinois-voting-machine-changes-republican-votes-to-democratic-ones
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posted October 22, 2014 05:30 PM
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