2012 Voting Machine Turns Obama Vote Into Romney Vote

Pennsylvania voter captures it on video

A voter from Pennsylvania has captured video evidence of a serious voting machine glitch. You can clearly see in the video that hitting the "Obama" check box results in a checkmark by Romney's name. When he hit "Romney," the Romney box was checked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM

The machine has now been taken out of service, NBC reports. The guy who captured the video claims he's a software developer, and says that the error clearly did not result from a poorly calibrated machine - with the implication being that it was deliberately set to register a vote for Obama as a Romney vote.

There've been other reports of machines switching votes from Romney to Obama and vice versa, but this seems to be the first captured on video.

Via NBC, YouTube, and Reddit.

Are you concerned about voting machine errors influencing the election?

[Lpguy]

that's weird that the Obama people would rig machines not in their favor

[MongoAPillager]

not really,now they have another excuse to delay and contest the election results if they are not in their favor,i think they call it a back burn

[Fishbone345]

@MongoAPillager Pretty sure that was sarcasm.

[MBernard]

@MongoAPillager you have the face to argue with the video? Seriously???

[TheLoneRanger]

LOL

I agree there is a problem with this machine but you will notice that the vote showing for Mitt Romney did not hold when the gentleman took his finger off the bottom for Obama.

[Denizen_Kate]

@TheLoneRanger - What I saw was that he pressed the button for Obama and the Romney box lit up, then he pressed the button for Obama again and the Romney box de-selected. Either way, what a mess.

[FFX_VA]

...and so start the lawsuits. The lawyers always seem to win.

[tomincali]

is this why o got all those lawyers on the ready awhile back?

[ConserveUSA]

LOL!! Lawyers got Job Security FFX_VA tonight.

[AceLuby]

No problems here, normal scantron w/ a pen and paper.

[MBernard]

I knew it. I've been saying this, the only way Romney can win this is by stealing the election.

[WilliamWallace]

Really? The complaints have been going both ways on this one. I don't think it's any party, but the bugs need to be worked out. A system that makes mistakes is not acceptable!!

[MBernard]

@WilliamWallace Yeah right. I haven't seen that on video where a Romney vote turns into Obama's but there's no discussion here, we have it in video where Obama's vote turns into Romney's. the system is rigged. Republicans, SMH

[DerivePI]

And if Obama wins, did he steal the election too?

[MBernard]

@DerivePI Nah, he's not the one rigging the voting machines, he's not the one doing voter suppression. The president will win fair and square.

[DerivePI]

@MBernard - not even a glimpse of academic honesty?

[FFX_VA]

Upon further review, the ruling on the field is Hoax. 15 yard penalty.

[MBernard]

It's on video. We caught the villain stealing the election.

[DerivePI]

uh - the guy "stealing" the election video taped it and published it on youtube. No more beer.

[Kufan]

As you can clearly see and I'm sure you are already aware of it politix website is pro Obama. That is clearly a hoax that person voted Romney and then put the finger over Obama and took a picture.

[AuntBee_1]

No. There was one numbskull potential voter there that insisted on telling everyone within hearing distance he was voting Obama and began listing his reasons why (which from my point of view were stupid). Although, he was told by the election officers he could not talk like that within the voting area - he continued to do so. One of the workers did have to call in on him so I don't know whether he got to vote or not. I hope not - he was too delusional and too high to make a rational choice.

[DerivePI]

clearly a voting error waiting to happen.

[MarkJM]

They were doing it against Romney in OH and KS. But yea, can't really dispute this video. Like I said, both sides of the political spectrum are responsible for stupid Mickey Mouse [STUFF] like this....

[basedgod00]

thats a lie lol I figured out that if you lie cheat or steal or if your very dismissive you vote for romney and how do you vote for somebody that lie about everything and his own wife thinks he is mentally unstable

[DerivePI]

@basedgod00 - two identical twin brothers live on an island, one always tells the truth and the other always lies. You're taking the road to get to the other side of the island and you come to a fork in the road and you don't know which way to go. You see one brother standing there. What do you do?

[Denizen_Kate]

@DerivePI - That should keep him busy awhile . . . ;-)

[basedgod00]

@DerivePI dude lol you compare romney and obama as twin brothers lol you just as clueless as him and if you know which one is a lier why would you listin to him at all no matter if he is ther or not and the question makes no since because your voteing between 2 people how do seeing 1 person at a fork in the road compare to voteing between 2 people to run a country

[DerivePI]

according to the guy recording the video, even picking stein wouldn't get Obama selected (all buttons were not calibrated down). He was able to select Obama by clicking on a small sliver at the bottom of the Obama button. No one else at the polling place said they had problems.

[ctc]

He's probably wearing a pacemaker.

[DerivePI]

@ctc - shouldn't make a difference. I've heard three separate reports on the miscalibration on these things. Someone's head should roll.

[Dan_Tien]

Check out the clumsy edit at 0:04. This kind of BS doesn't help anything.

[stimpy]

That was a lil sketchy, but could be attributed to the poor quality of the phones recorder.

[Dan_Tien]

@stimpy The most obvious answer is usually the correct one Since the only spot where the video jumps like that is between when his finger appears to touch the screen and when the Romney selection lights up, the most obvious answer is that the video was edited to make it appear that the machine was doctored. If someone is going to go to all the trouble to fix those machines, wouldn't it be more logical to program the desired choice to appear on the screen while the vote is changed by the software without being observable by the voter? Please don't say that a Republican software developer bent on voter fraud is not smart enough to figure that out.

[Thunderchicken]

I'd like to see other choices made and their results. Yeah it looks funky to me too.

[Denizen_Kate]

I just got new glasses last month, and I still couldn't see anything weird about it. That said, it's been years since I've trusted photo or video evidence. Even if this is legit, I doubt very much that it is at all prevalent.

[stimpy]

@Dan_Tien. I agree. And for every one who voted for obama that actually have a job right now we'll see how happy you are in 4 years. I actually hope y'all are right about him, but this election was one on social issues. The thing is it's the economic ones that are hurting us.

[Hireman]

What happened when he/she clicked on Romney? Looks to be a glitch... but a catchable one.

[Veritas]

Who can believe that our votes actually matter?

[simplytoi]

@hireman that is exactly what i thought , its a glithch . Things happen and why didn't he or she go to another machine

[simplytoi]

sorry typo glitch

[ctc]

Kinda reminds me of some of the Politix quizzes here.......you hit the correct answer and it won't register......you hit another to see if any are working and the incorrect one lights right up.

[Thunderchicken]

Ain't computers wonderful?

[Kajai]

This is exactly why I checked my vote on screen with the vote on the paper. Make sure to check yours too. Report all problems

[kirbstomp1]

Read his statement on YouTube. He specifies the boxes and how they were messed up.

[ctc]

Why the hell is the Republican ticket on top??

[Denizen_Kate]

Why the hell does it matter?

[ctc]

@Denizen_Kate I was under the impression the incumbents received top billing on the ballot or at the least were listed alphabetically....seriously.

[BigPoppaPhat]

Its just correcting the "voter intention" we all heard about during the 04 elections.

[msoler29]

Bullshit! They better fix this! Lieing scum bag dirty republican scum!

[BigPoppaPhat]

Yea blame the candidate not the polling judges.

[msoler29]

@BigPoppaPhat
this reminds me of the Bush administration lies.