Secretary of State investigating possible 'vote flipping' bug in some machines

[bathroommonkey76]

Source: NBC-11-Alive

ATLANTA -- Secretary of State Brian Kemp's office is investigating complaints of "vote flipping" in several counties, including three here in metro Atlanta.

Records are being shattered in Georgia as more people than ever before cast their ballots early.

Ethel Newton voted at the East Point library on Monday.

"I punched Hillary and it switched to Donald Trump," Newton said.

A poll worker quickly helped her start over.

"I've been voting since I was 18-years-old and I'm 71 now and I'm witnessing things at the polls that I've never seen before," Newton said.

Another viewer in Dekalb County said a similar thing happened to her. Again, she contacted a poll worker and the issue was quickly fixed.

A spokesperson for the Secretary of State's office said they're investigating complaints of "vote flipping" in Cobb, Coweta, Clayton, Baldwin and Bryan Counties.

In each case the votes were all corrected.



Read more: http://www.11alive.com/news/politics/elections/secretary-of-state-investigating-possible-vote-flipping-bug-in-some-machines/347350849

[iemitsu]

1. Yeah, I'll bet they all get corrected.

[Ford_Prefect]

13. By-pass the tabulator in Atlanta and go directly to the final "Published" counts

Just like they did in Ohio.

[Mc Mike]

2. People need to pay attention on these kinds of e voting machines.

Our Ivotronic has a preview screen when you're about to cast your vote. For what that's worth.

[bathroommonkey76]

3. I think we should be concerned b/c Hillary is within 1 point of Trump in Ga.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/304247-poll-clinton-within-1-point-in-ga

[Hokie]

4. What state? NT

[bathroommonkey76]

5. Georgia n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

6. "I've been voting since I was 18-years-old and I'm 71 now"

I just looked this up and apparently Georgia and Kentucky were 2 states that allowed voting at age 18 before passage of the 26th Amendment, which is an interesting tidbit. A 71-year old would have turned 18 in 1963 when the voting age (for official local/state/federal elections) was still 21 everywhere else.

Aside from that, I hope that anyone who runs into that makes sure it gets corrected right away because with the higher turnouts, the incidences will probably be increased too.

[Divine Discontent]

9. neat!

[4lbs]

7. Anything about switching from Trump to Hillary, or do they only flip from Hillary to orange twit?

Quite interesting that it appears they may be only flipping in one direction.

[MGKrebs]

11. I'm sure Brian Kemp (R) will diligently

pursue these egregious errors. /sarcasm

[Crash2Parties]

12. So at what point do we Americans say, "enough" with machines that by now are known to be faulty?

I don't care if it is touch screen calibration, user interface design, physical insecurity, inability to pass an audit, lack of audit trail or that they store the county level results in an Access database that any office wonk can manipulate - these things do not belong in a nation that supposedly feels that each vote matters.

[Akamai]

14. Here in Oregon we are all vote by mail, and there is a paper record. I like the system here.

[lonestarnot]

15. Are the ruskies in on this too?

[MGKrebs]

16. Bubba Redneckofsky

( I''m from Georgia so I can say that.)