Calibration
error’ changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois county
CHICAGO — Early
voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as votes being cast for
Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats.
Republican
state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to vote Monday at the
Schaumburg Public Library.
“I tried to
cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,” Moynihan
said. “You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number
of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a
vote for a Democrat.”
The
conservative website Illinois Review reported that “While using a touch screen
voting machine in Schaumburg, Moynihan voted for several races on the ballot,
only to find that whenever he voted for a Republican candidate, the machine
registered the vote for a Democrat in the same race. He notified the election
judge at his polling place and demonstrated that it continued to cast a vote
for the opposing candidate’s party. Moynihan was eventually allowed to vote for
Republican candidates, including his own race.
Moynihan
offered this gracious lesson to his followers on Twitter: “Be careful when you
vote in Illinois. Make sure you take the time to check your votes before
submitting.”
Cook County
Board of Elections Deputy Communications Director Jim Scalzitti, told Illinois
Watchdog, the machine was taken out of service and tested.
“This was a
calibration error of the touch-screen on the machine,” Scalzitti said. “When
Mr. Moynihan used the touch-screen, it improperly assigned his votes due to
improper calibration.”
Source:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/22/calibration-error-changes-gop-votes-to-dem-in-illinois-county/
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