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A VIDEO ALLEGEDLY showing e-voting machine fraud occurring in Pennsylvania has gone viral today – as it appears to show a vote for Barack Obama being changed to one for Mitt Romney.
The video, first published on YouTube by user “centralpavoter” and then picked up by Reddit, has outraged viewers as it appears to show e-voting machine fraud.
The person who uploaded the video says that he was unable to select Obama for president and was told by staff it was “nothing to worry about” when he complained, NBC News reports.
NBC also confirmed that the machine was taken out of service after being captured on video changing the vote.
So did the video reveal deliberate vote-tampering? Speaking to Mashable, Senior Staff Technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, said it was improbable – and that “calibration issues” were more likely to blame:
These are touchscreens, they get shaken around a lot, temperature variations can cause them to go out of whack. And a lot of these are 10- to 15-year-old computers, so it’s not too crazy to expect them to do some funny things.
Touchscreens can potentially lose calibration in individual areas of the screen, and users can also interfere with calibration by inadvertently touching a screen with another part of their body as they use it, Hall said.
A short time ago, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State told Mother Jones a machine that showed the problem – likely the same one – is back in operation after being “recalibrated.”
The problem seems to be hitting both ways: the Republican National Committee last week sent a letter to election officials in six other states raising concerns that machines had wrongly counted votes for Obama.
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This document was drawn up by Hasss, a right wing American, a member of Bushs admin, and still it’s not good enough for unionism? That speaks volumes about them, they don’t want a shared future, they never have… The supremacist mask is slipping yet again! The orange order are a massive obstacle to agreement.
They made one of the Orange Order’s top men one of their negotiators.
Unionism has to really ask itself if it wants a shared future.
They have fought and lost every battle from one man, one vote. Penal Laws, the vote for women, every democratic form in the last 200 years.
All lost and still the fight on.
We simply need to contain unionism, it will die a death as time moves on. Managing unionism into the inevitable is the real job. Unionists need to feel cherished, as The 1916 Proclamation stated. Lose the hatred, keep the history is my message to unionists.
Compromise seems to be a dirty word for unionists. They seem to equate it with surrender. There is absolutely nothing in the Haass Proposals that wouldn’t have improved life for everyone in the north. But then we know its the Orange Order calling the shots here. Putting up barriers to progress. Shared future? They don’t want to share anything with Nationalists because they despise them.
Nothing wrong with compromise
Well said. Unionism is dying of its own accord, let them die on their own swords!
Well done Martin McG. Blame and ‘failure’ talk isn’t going to help… keep trying for agreement .. it’s the only viable option
What do people expect when they vote in hardliners from both sides and leave the likes of Seamus Mallon etc. on the side line. While the orange order are living in a time warp and have nothing to offer if I was from that side of the community I would not trust Sinn Fein. It’s the power hungry big mouths from both sides that have always brought the North down these troubled roads, while the reasonable voices like John Hume etc are left looking on. Then you have to listen to Ian & Gerry rewrite history, sickening.
Im not surprised a unionist like you want want Seamus and John Tom both retired many years ago Mallon was a careerist Patsy John hume did eventually move beyond those nationalist parties like fine gael who were anti good friday agreement so fair play there but even the latest govt papers show sdlp were out of touch in 1973 and if you look at the recent bbc politics shows nothing has changed
Tom you do know SDLP were involved in these negotiations as well? They and Sinn Fein both accepted the document.. Sinn Fein or the SDLP are clearly not the problem here.
Actually Eamonn in my younger years before my brain fully developed I actually helped the local shinner at election time with posters etc, long before it was popular. So you’re well wide of the mark calling me a unionist, but a typical shinner, shout down others and twist the truth. Thankfully I’ve matured enough over the years to realise you can’t justify everything just because it suits your point of view. Now trot along, good lad
Wee Lebowski I do realise that and I apologise for getting up on the soap box
Pardon me It was you who said you were from that side of the community read above perhaps the development of your argument is like that of your politics old and wasted
Take of the dark glasses, You might be able to read then, I never said any such thing, I said IF. You just read/saw what suited you………………..nothing new there
iF ok me bad you need to check your glasses too as I didn’t write being part of any party anywhere
True you didn’t, but I took a peak at your FB page :p
My political views are Phoblacht na hÉireann that and that only Tom im a member of no party fact
Fair enough Eamonn, the simple point I was trying to make is that it is a pity that it is the hardliners that dictate the direction the north goes. Which is a pity.
No if we had hardliners in the twenty six who stood up to the British threat of violence we wouldn’t of had partition and violence this past 100 years that’s the pity, the peace process is just that a process for uionists and some nationalists on both sides of the artificial border to begin the development of a unified Ireland even the utv news channel are moving away from the union
So in your imagination if there was a united Ireland there’d be peace???????????? Your not living in reality. Did you happen to watch the spotlight programme last year on support for a united Ireland amongst nationalists in the north, if you did then you’d realise it won’t be happening any day soon. The Good Friday Agreement should be the only show in town regardless what you think.
Your thinking is definitely skewed if you think
“the peace process is just that a process for uionists and some nationalists on both sides of the artificial border to begin the development of a unified Ireland”
Here Eamonn read this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21345997
I suppose that it’s the Brits telling lies
In fairness the SDLP wouldn’t get out of their own way. The SDLP were ending for the dust bin of history no matter what the circumstances.
First of all Seamus Mallon is dead! The SDLP did nothing for peace in the north, could not even vote for Nelson Mandela’s freedom the City of Derry! Useless fools and now they are comely obsolete!
You missed the whole point Tom! Sinn Fein were crucial to the compromises not SDLP!
And what party do you tow your allegiance to! Sounds like Blueshirtism to me!
Very true, because they could not make up their minds what aide they were on! They called themselves Nationalists but acted more like Unionista!
At least they renounced violence, the same cannot be said for Sinn Fein.
on the contrary, Sin Fein have indeed renounced violence, as you would see if you were not so blind! The problem with the SDLP was they believed in everything and nothing. They denounced violence but lacked the courage to take on the State violence in any meaningful way.
So attending commemorations ceremonies for dead bombers is renouncing violence?
Yes, Sinn Fein have renounced violence as indicated by McGuinnesses words and actions. However honoring fallen volunteers, men and women who gave their lives is perfectly legitimate as long as the past is the past. There is no organized Republican paramilitary organizations today and when so called dissidents carry out acts of violence they are condemned by Sinn Fein. So yes they have renounced violence. Do you believe that there is any other organization or party who could have achieved the decommissioning which Sinn Fein did? Face facts there would be no GFA without the courage of Sinn Fein!
McGuinness cannot be the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister at the same time. He might like to be but I think that others might also be involved.
Pedant Pat. Seemed a reasonable summation of the the situation as it stands from Mr McGuinness.
He can.
It’s explained here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Minister_and_deputy_First_Minister
Thanks Paul. I did not realise that both shared equal power. I think the article refers to Mcguinness as being the First Minister. It is a bad day when you do not learn something new.
You were not entirely wrong Patrick.
The headline abbreviated his full title of Deputy First Minister.
Legally they both are the same jobs.
In another few years Sinn Féin will be the largest party and entitled to the first Minister post.
They have already said they will then change the title to joint first minister so that Unionists can say that an Irish taig does not have the job.
Even though it is still the same job.
The more they are accommodated the more they act up.
Indeed! The more they get the more they want!
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