2008-10-18 Voting machine didn't want me to vote for Obama

2008-10-18 Daily Kos: minkster Daily Kos \2008 US presidential election\voting fraud\West Virginia http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/18/1070/1027/236/634390 SCARY: Voting machine didn't want me to vote for Obama Voting machine didn't want me to vote for Obama &ldquo;Three times the touch screen mistakenly assigned my preference to the wrong candidate. Now I'm a technologically savvy individual, so it didn't fluster me too much, having read the directions, knowing that I could immediately "un-check" one and select the other, and further knowing that there would be a screen at the end with a summary of my selections, and an opportunity to "Return to the Ballot," before actually casting the "VOTE." Not all voters are as tech savvy as me--in fact few of them are. There was an alert tone that sounded when I touched Obama/Biden, and a bright green check mark appeared in the box (the wrong one, of course, but I could have missed it), and the paper tape that keeps record was printed on and moved. I would imagine that MANY people would move on at that point...I mean, it sounded and "looked" like the right thing happened.&rdquo;

&ldquo;THE PROBLEM was that my touch-screen voting machine inaccurately put a green check mark in the McCain/Palin box when I touched my guy's name. ... That wasn't the end of my frustration, though. Three times the touch screen mistakenly assigned my preference to the wrong candidate.&rdquo;   