Watch: As voters head to polls, reports of problems pour in

By Lylah M. Alphonse, Yahoo! News

An unexpected glitch almost caused one central Pennsylvania voter to cast his ballot for the wrong candidate, highlighting concerns about voter fraud on an already tense election day.

"I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted," writes Centralpavote on YouTube. "I assumed it was being picky so I de-selected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney."

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A software developer, the man tried troubleshooting the screen. "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 de-selected 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."

A few more taps and he discovered that the only way to select Obama was to click on a small sliver of the screen. All of the buttons for the other candidates seemed to work fine.

Other voters at the precinct didn't have the same problem, he said, and the volunteer didn't seem concerned. "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," he wrote. "I then recorded this video."

He insists that the video is unedited?the jumpy looking frames are from the camera app on his Android phone, he says?but Yahoo is working on getting the raw footage. Reports are pouring in from other voters who say they've had the same experience with electronic voting machines in other areas, and the computer-savvy among them are quick to point out that the problem is less about fraud and more about faulty electronics.

"This happens to ALL touch screen machines (your phone, kiosk, computer, etc)," writes Cheeta219 on YouTube. "These are crudely, haphazardly built machines that will fail sometimes."

The Election Protection coalition has reported ballot scanning problems in Cleveland, Dayton, and Toledo, Ohio; in some minority neighborhoods in Galveston, Texas, polling places opened late, making it impossible for people to vote earlier in the day.

Thanks to a different kind of technological glitch, some voters in Pinellas County, Florida, received phone calls on Tuesday morning reminding them to vote on Wednesday -- the day after Election Day.

In Oregon, an election worker was fired after she allegedly tampered with ballots by writing in Republican candidates in places where voters had left sections blank. But the biggest problems reported by voters so far has simply been long lines.
And in the heavily Democratic city of Philadelphia, the Republican Party reported that 75 legally credentialed voting inspectors were kicked out of polling places (local prosecutors are investigating).

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/watch-glitch-voting-machine-pennsylvania-171806481--election.html

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