Voting machine troubles in West Virginia

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Tweetwho can see Recount's happening this election???

In West Virginia's Jackson County, there were some reports that voting machines were accidentally recording the wrong vote.
"I went in there and pushed the Democrat ticket, and it jumped to the Republican ticket for president of the United States," said Calvin Thomas, an 81-year-old West Virginian

Thomas has voted in West Virginia in every election since Harry Truman defeated Thomas Dewey in 1948.
The same thing happened to his daughter, Micki Clendenin, when she cast her ballot. In both cases, poll workers at the site had them touch the screen a few more times, and the voting machine changed their ballot to their candidate choice.
"The lady came in, and she was -- very nicely, she just said, 'it's just been doing that.' She said, 'just hit it again.' So we hit it again, and this time it did go to Obama," Clendenin said.
CNN's Brian Todd reported that at least five voters in two West Virginia counties said they encountered the same problem. State and local officials said that they were isolated cases and that poll workers fixed the problems so the correct vote was cast.
The machines were manufactured by an Omaha, Nebraska-based company, Election System and Software. The machines will be used in several states this year and were among those that had problems in Ohio in 2004.
The company said that it has inspected the machines in West Virginia and that no one there has cast an inaccurate vote.
The West Virginia secretary of state's office said most of the problems occur because the machines are not calibrated properly. Jeff Waybright, the Jackson County clerk, disagreed and said the problems reported there were probably the result of voter error.

"There are no problems with the machines as recalibrated," West Virginia Secretary of State Betty Ireland said Wednesday, according to an Associated Press report. "Touch-screen voting in West Virginia is accurate and secure."

Ireland directed the state's county clerks to recalibrate their machines each morning during the early voting period and on Election Day.

In Georgia's Fulton County, several polling sites apparently lost their connections to the state's voter database, causing some long wait times for voters.
"We live in a country that can send a guy to the moon, but they can't get the computers up, so it's very discouraging for me," voter Quentin Cottrell told WGCL, an Atlanta-based news outlet

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Tweetits only going to get wors

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its only going to get wors

yep i agree.... we will be waiting a month or two to find out who won... just watch

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TweetEFFIN DIBOLD AND STUPID VOTING MACHINES...HOW IN THE HELL ARE WE STILL GOING TO USE COMPUTERS SUBJECT TO MALFUNCTION AND MANIPULATION TO TALLY THE VOTES FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT OFFICE IN THE WORLD?!!!
I JUST DONT GET IT!!!

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TweetA recount will only come about if obama loses. Then there will be cries from everywhere. When nixon lost to jfk he stepped aside "for the good of the country" even though there was rampant voter fraud in illinois specifically around the chicago area. Only the liberals kick and scream when they lose.