Democrats cheat. These are the "ends justify the means" people. This is why traditional ballots are so important. They leave a paper trail.

This would be very easy to figure out. As an astute poster mentioned yesterday, ALL computers have a "Default" setting. These machines were obviously set with a default to the big O. Any reporter worth a damn could ask:

Who made the machines?
Who programmed the machines?
Where are the machines serviced?
Is the company that made the machines a donor to the DNC?
Is the programmer of the machines a donor to the DNC?

So easy a journ-o-list could do it.

Mitt will have to win big to overcome the Dems cheating

If a precinct that has a history of voting for Republicans suddenly votes for Obama, the fraud will be obvious and prosecutable.

This is one case in which I would be for the immediate death penaly (hanging) of anyone caught tampering with the voting machines to cheat.

the voting fraud is rampant in Wisconsin...
we have to get paper ballots...back to ONE day of voting..on Election Day..

I read elsewhere that Democrat thugs can program the electronic voting machines by invisibly enlarging the voting rectangle area of one candidate- so that if a voter hits the Romney button a little outside the box, they would be unknowingly voting for Obama. If they were fortunate, the voter would see "Obama" show up on the screen. This is a "flaw"? in the voting machine design.

We use electronically scanned paper ballots here in RI, the same machine that we used in MA. These machines have the advantage of the impossibility of the citizen voting for the wrong candidate, plus the benefit of electronic scanning and wire transferring of the town results to the state election central facility.

Some guru this morning on Fox tried to explain that if the box is "mis-aligned" you'd put a check for the wrong/desired candidate. He says it's very unlikely this was done purposely. Yeah riiiiight! He also said that "every" machine "must" be aligned before put in use at each site. Yeah riiiiight! Like in the dinky town in which I live, an expert dispatched to align the one machine? Yeah riiiiight!

I am sure Eric Holder will get right on this travesty of justice. After all, every vote must be counted - but not necessarily in favor of who you voted for.

In the world of computer programming, when you have a "multiple choice question", there is ALWAYS a "default" answer.

That is the starting point, and the end point, if an answer is not selected.

In a voting machine, THAT "default" should be listed as "NONE" !!

That way, when you do not vote for a particular candidate, there is NO vote totaled.

IF, the "Default" is listed as any OTHER name besides "NONE".

It was PURPOSELY programmed that way !!!

The machine needs to be pulled, and looked at by computer programmer's, and see WHY it acted like it did?

And there needs to be a check to see if anyone has put in a virus to the system, to fix or rig the election.

(I am always suspicious of an electronic voting machine that will NOT give you a paper receipt to reconcile with later.)

DEMAND that you State goes back to the "optical ballots" for voting
(NO chads, and hard copies you can physically count !)

What do the RNC and RR campaigns mean to do about this? Sit idly by and let the Democrats' cheating steal this election? This is beyond disturbing.

SHARK! SHARK!

In other words, this is nothing but fear porn! Are you going to believe it and give the fool who wrote this ammunition to mock you, or are you going to stand up and say that this is BS?

I think I'd bring it to their attention, and if they did nothing, bring a sledge hammer back and put that machine out of commission for good.

Voteing machines can be programed to come up with the way the democrits want.They have no shame. No doubt the MSM will help them all they can. Pray that they will not carry the day.

we have paper ballots here in brevard county florida. you color in the circle and then you slide it into a scanner that accepts or rejects the ballot. if it rejects you can look it over to find out why(usually a poorly colored in circle) and fix it. you see the counter on the scanner advance when your vote is accepted. Now there is a good hard copy to refer back to if there are problems or challenges. We always report results in very early and never have "problems". Of course we also have republicans in office for the most part...... Do you hear me Palm Beach county?

#10 - Probably the Default is the first candidate. Since Obama is first in the alphabet - it defaults to him.

Could be accidental or could be deliberately miscalibrated.

Regardless - when Romney wins - the Dems will actually blame the voting machine company in Ohio with some nebulus connection to Bain Capital.

It only matters who counts the votes.

Selwyn Duke is right, up until the last paragraph:
"Exit polling is a precise enough science so that states can be called for one candidate or another based on it..."

I'm not convinced that exit polling will ever be a "precise enough science" that they can be definitive in a very close election.

I remember all too well the feeling of doom descending on us in 2004, when early exit polls showed John Fraud Kerry defeating GWB. Apparently, some final exit polls still favored Kerry so much, that some Dems continued to argue that Kerry had actually won, and GWB had "stolen the election."

Now remember the claims --just before the election of 2004-- that exit pollsters had incorporated methodological improvements? And that their results would be much more accurate than the disastrously wrong 2000 exit polls?

Clearly, they still weren't "precise enough science."

I've been a programmer for years and years (35+).

If programmed correctly, the default would be null or no choice. The return screen to confirm your vote for president would be blank.

It is a DELIBERATE programming action to make the default "Obama".

The 'mis-alignment' statement is pure BS; it was deliberately programmed that way to get the unsuspecting.

And the 'we're taking it in for re-calibration' is a ruse. They are really putting a version of the program into the machine that does not favor Obama, either thru 'default' or thru 'mis-alignment'.

The new program would over-write and erase ANY evidence of the old program where the Obama bias was present, and, if you looked superficially at the machine and its progams, you would think that there NEVER WAS ANYTHING WRONG.

I'm sure that Lucianne has other computer professionals who will vouch for this.

#12, Thank you!

Lesson: pay close attention.

If this happens to me, I will not leave the voting booth and will ask for/demand help. And will not leave until my vote is correctly cast.