VIDEO, La Cucaracha: “I voted! Or at least I think I did…” PA voting machine flips from Obama to Romney.

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A major advantage of having a Twitter pal like the wonderful Lalo Alcaraz (@LaloAlcaraz) is that he generously shares his work with us.

Here’s today’s La Cucaracha:

Perfect. Especially considering this:

UPDATE: After MSNBC reported the machine was taken out of service, Mother Jones has this: Romney-Loving Voting Machine “Recalibrated” and Back Online

Problems? Please CALL ELECTION PROTECTION AT 1-866-OUR VOTE or 1-866-VE-Y-VOTA.

Published on Nov 6, 2012 by , who added this on Reddit: EDIT2: I have been contacted by NBC Universal and BBC News.

My wife and I went to the voting booths this morning before work. There were 4 older ladies running the show and 3 voting booths that are similar to a science fair project in how they fold up. They had an oval VOTE logo on top center and a cartridge slot on the left that the volunteers used to start your ballot.

I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney’s name and started tapping very closely together to find the ‘active areas’. From the top of Romney’s button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama’s name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein’s button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.

I asked the voters on either side of me if they had any problems and they reported they did not. I then called over a volunteer to have a look at it. She him hawed for a bit then calmly said “It’s nothing to worry about, everything will be OK.” and went back to what she was doing. I then recorded this video.

There is a lot of speculation that the footage is edited. I’m not a video guy, but if it’s possible to prove whether a video has been altered or not, I will GLADLY provide the raw footage to anyone who is willing to do so. The jumping frames are a result of the shitty camera app on my Android phone, nothing more.

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  • barkway

    How many people voted on that machine before it was removed and recalibrated? And what assurance do PA Voters have that there aren’t many other faulty machines around the state? CA banned these machines after repeated failures in testing. So did Florida. No state should be using them, and especially not swing states.

  • http://twitter.com/jane_cerva jane cerva

    I like the fact that he tried to check if it was a calibration problem first. And that he reported it. And that he uploaded this. Keep them honest!
     

  • cognachas4paws

    Careful taking pictures in a polling place – it’s illegal in most states (because our voting is ‘secret’).