Colorado Voting Machine Removed, Quarantined, After Vote Flips Multiple Times to McCain

November 03, 2008

Quid-pro-quo: Corruption, The Vote, Video, Vote 2008

By J.E. Robertson
CafeSenTido

An electronic voting machine made by Premier Election Solutions (Diebold) has been found to flip votes repeatedly to Republican candidate John McCain. A local election official in Adams County responded to the complaint by halting the machine's use and sequestering it, so it could be examined for evidence of tampering and/or persistent malfunction.

The Colorado Independent reports that:

"An electronic voting machine in Adams County repeatedly failed to accept a vote for a Democratic state Senate candidate--instead registering the vote for her Republican opponent--at an early voting site last week and has been removed from service, the Aurora Sentinel reports Wednesday. Adams County Clerk and Recorder Karen Long told the newspaper the error doesn't reflect wider problems in the county's voting systems, but the candidate said the incident could lead to a lawsuit."The Diebold Accu-Vote machine involved in the Adams County case has been reported to have had vote-flipping problems in the past. Computer scientists have disagreed over what could explain the flipping, with many suggesting the devices' tendency to flip pro-Republican could not be explained by a routine persistent malfunction, unless there were some piece of computer code that was prompting them to do this.

Source: CafeSenTido