Election Fraud In The Making?

From The New Ledger:

Election Fraud in the Making?by Pejman Yousefzadeh




You know that if these stories involved aggrieved Democrats, we would be hearing an unending hue and cry about Diebold, and Republican dirty tricksters, and Florida. etc. My sense of fair play tells me that these stories certainly deserve to be publicized when they involve Republicans.



Link:



Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County’s electronic voting machines.

Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid’s name was already checked.



Ferrara said she wasn’t alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.



“Something’s not right,” Ferrara said. “One person that’s a fluke. Two, that’s strange. But several within a five minute period of time — that’s wrong.”



Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch-screens are sensitive. For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time.



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That’s an awful lot of lingering.



Link:



A Craven County voter says he had a near miss at the polls on Thursday when an electronic voting machine completed his straight-party ticket for the opposite of what he intended.



Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said. Then he asked for and received help from election staff.



“They pushed it twice and the same thing happened,” Laughinghouse said. “That was four times in a row. The fifth time they pushed it and the Republicans came up and I voted.”



M. Ray Wood, Craven County Board of elections chairman, issued a written statement saying that the elections board is aware of isolated issues and that in each case the voter was able to cast his or her ballot as desired.



Chuck Tyson, chairman of Craven County GOP, remains skeptical. He has been communicating with Wood about the issue and was invited to a meeting Wednesday with state elections officials. There were no further details about that meeting.



“Something is not right here,” Tyson told the Sun Journal. He said he “got two or three calls” from people describing the same problem while they were voting.



Link. Not fraud, but certainly cheating. Behold. At least the aide got fired, though one wonders why Sink simply didn’t refuse to violate the rules in the first place by not reading from the iPhone. Note that Rick Scott is implicitly accused of having caused the rule-breaking. Truly ridiculous.



I suppose though, that one can understand the potential proliferation of dirty electoral tricks on the port side, when one reads that President Obama has hit new polling lows.