Random Thoughts of Mine...

US voting machines flipping results

Damned if you do... damned if you don't THE US PRESIDENTIAL election is something we all grit out teeth and hope doesn’t go wrong – yet apparently, the machines used to vote could be recording the wrong candidate. That’s right, the machines which a third of voters will be using are touch screen and thus have room for error. Voters are confronted with a simple interface which shows them coloured areas on the screen - votes are cast by pressing this screen. The problem encountered with this equipment was that it appeared to be " flipping" the votes made from one choice to another – in some cases it changed the vote from a Republican one to a Democratic one. The complaints began rolling in from West Virginia and have since been reported in Colorado, Tennessee and Texas. Since these reports have been made, voting watchdog organisations have been working to warn others of this problem with advisory letters going out to 16 secretaries of state last week alone.