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Possessed TX Voting Machine Only Allows Votes for Green Party

Don Relyea supports incumbent Republican Rick Perry for governor in TX. Naturally, he went to the polls to cast his vote. But while in the privacy of his voting booth, he noticed something very strange: as he tried to submit his ballot, it changed. Again. And again. The electronic voting machine he was using kept switching his votes to Green Party candidates, and he caught it on tape:

(H/T: Gawker, via Reddit)

Your eyes aren’t fooling you: every time Relyea pushes the “Rick Perry” button, the vote changes to Deb Shafto — the Green Party’s candidate — and also the Green Party candidates for all the other offices.

According to Gawker, Relyea wasn’t the only one having trouble. Apparently someone else was having the same problem — when he went to vote for Democrat Bill White, his vote kept switching to Rick Perry:

I had the same problem with a voting machine in Collin County, still right outside of Dallas. It was Diebold, and very different from the one in this video.

Another difference was that mine took some convincing to let me vote for Bill White. Every time I would press it, it would select Bill White for a second, then switch to Rick Perry. I eventually did it enough times that it stuck.

Well, at least I hope it stuck. There’s really no way of knowing how it recorded the vote, is there?

Reylea was eventually placed at another polling machine after raising “a stink.” No priests have been called to attend to the machines — that we know of.

Comments (90)

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  • CHOW
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:48am

    I do not have a problem with electronic voting on its face. But the software algorithms must be open source and fully disclosed at each step of the process. From the votes to the tally. And the subsequent logs made public.

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  • spanish olive
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:48am

    Computerized voting machines are a huge mistake. We’ve made an issue of that on the left for years now. I’m glad you guys can agree.

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  • Conservative Grinch
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:45am

    We got one of those machines where I vote. At the end of the voting process it allows you to review the vote and make changes. When you are finished it prints out a paper copy which can be examined and viewed as well. If I am not mistaken it is the paper copy that is counted and tabulated. I assume that it is not done by hand (which is subject to fraud and mistakes) but by machine (which is also subject to fraud and mistakes) But, nothing is perfect.

    Bottom line here is this: It is up to the voter to make sure that the ballot properly filled out be he or she submits it either by paper or the submit button. Many of the people of Broward County in Florida in 2000 with their hanging chads were too stupid to vote. Many of them were voting for the first time and driven to the polls by ACCORN.

    No system of voting is perfect.

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:43am

    Pencil Paper – the only way.

    Silversmith

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  • ItsallaboutJesus
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:41am

    I hope they get to the bottom of it and if they do—-what do you want to bet, it was rigged to happen that way????

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  • thesixfour
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:38am

    And so it begins….

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  • SingerGuy
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:36am

    This story came out a month ago from researchers at Princeton about how easy it is to hack Diebold voting machines:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9SFuntddU

    We need to eliminate electronic voting and go back to punch cards. Give me hanging chads over electronic hacking any day!

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  • HKS
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:36am

    The problem with elections is they are subjective, depending on who is counting. All elections should be done on April 15th as part of the tax return. Don’t pay taxes, don’t vote. Dead people don’t pay taxes and they still vote.

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  • the point
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:36am

    Is this more of obama’s dirty work ?

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  • john seven eighteen
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:28am

    At least the machines weren’t wearing “guerilla garb” and wielding sticks to try to threaten voters into voting for a particular candidate. Of course, if they had been our DOJ wouldn’t have prosecuted for fear of “rise of the machine”!!

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 10:28am

      Nov2 I imagine the Geurilla Garb will become a fashion trend along with tasers and night sticks.

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  • Sandy
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:27am

    Remember that Several of these machines burned up in a Warehouse fire right after the AG started the investigation.

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  • BeerTek
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:26am

    Why can’t we just go back to the days of putting an “X” in a box?

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    • 1776Federalist
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 11:21am

      They would probably say that discriminates against the “O”’s : )

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  • Uber
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:25am

    The memory cards need to be taken and locked up. I think some electronic forensics is in order.

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  • Oh, God!
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:25am

    In some cities surrounding Dallas, Stephen Broden’s name does not appear on the ballot, only the honest and wonderful Eddie Bernice Johnson. That I know of, they are not correcting this. Also, many people have not been allowed to vote due to the fact that they were wearing a Gadsen flag pin. they were told to remove the pin or else they could not vote. Thanks to so many citizens protesting, I believe they are sending out new info that people wearing this pin are allowed to vote and do not violate any laws. Was any action taken when Mochelle went to vote and was talking with someone inside the voting area? I think not…

    http://dallasteaparty.org/3842/

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  • Silat
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:24am

    How on God’s earth could you vote Democrat?

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  • Okpulot Taha
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:23am

    “I’m sorry, Dave. I‘m afraid I can’t do that.”

    Okpulot Taha
    Choctaw Nation

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  • JenniferNB
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:23am

    Let me guess, will not be a story about this on NBC<CBS or ABC and The Justice Department will not be involved and Robert Gibb if asked…Ahhhhh I don't anything about that. And there you have it.

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  • wingedwolf
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:23am

    I know there is going to be a lot of eye-rolling, but I’m going to say it anyway. We would be better off using a pencil and paper, being fingerprinted and counting votes manually. The electronic voting machines are so easy to program for fraud that you wouldn’t believe it even if you saw it. And anyone who doesn’t believe that the demolibersocialcommies intend to rig this election like the one which elected obama is….well I‘m not going to put into print my evaluation of those individual’s intelligence.

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  • Erdnase
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:23am

    And don’t even think you can wear a T-shirt w/a snake and the words DON’T TREAD ON ME on it or you will be asked to leave or turn your shirt inside out.

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    • tuffenough
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:50am

      I live in Silsbee, Texas both my husband and I plan to wear our Don’t Tread on Me T- Shirts to the voting polls in Kountz Texas, where we are registered. As my husband is a huge man and has never run from anything in his life and is a very devoted member of the Tea Party- this could prove interesting.

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  • tuffenough
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:22am

    I think we will be seeing alot of this during this election. The election process has become so corrupt that really it can’t be trusted.
    I knew that those with special interests would not allow things to change. We the people are in grave danger as we have been lowered to a status LESS that needed.
    But we should not Give Up – or Give In ! We must fight the progressive movement. We can not allow them to gain control of what is left of our freedoms, and if it takes enacting our right to bear arms — WELL THE TREE OF LIBERTY JUST MIGHT NEED SOME WATER

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:20am

    this is pretty serious, really. how many others across America are rigged. or “possessed”.

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  • snowleopard3200
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:19am

    No not demonic possession, I have seen and dealt with those matters before by the Almighty help in the events.

    Either is a mechanical problem, computer glitch, or someone is deliberately making sure we will wind up with another court challenge and controversy such as the ‘hanging chads’ once again. If this is what is happening with them – and we have already seen they are able to be hacked into according to a report not long ago – who most likely will say the records need to be changed or deleted when they lose this november?

    Faulty voting station systems and problems with mail in ballots…coincidence or is the next set of rumblings in the storm about to hit us.

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    • Nvrforget
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:23am

      These machines are a horrible idea. They are not regulated at all, nobody knows anything specific about their inner workings and there’s no third party checking them. These things are a security risk to any electoral process.

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:32am

      @Nvrforget

      Agreed.

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  • felina g
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:17am

    It has begun……….again.

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:16am

    The democrats messed up on this machine, selected the wrong party to cheat for. Ha!

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    • ltb
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:45am

      A vote for the Green Party is still a vote against Perry. If the machines are rigged, they wouldn’t have all of the phony votes go to Bill White.

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 11:09am

      This is an example of Alvin Greene’s (SC Senate) secret weapon !! Watch out Jim DeMint !!

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 2:46pm

      One for red two for green five for blue, hmmm….wonder who will win??

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  • lobster
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:13am

    That has been a concern for years from some of us old timers. These can be rigged…

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    • ltb
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:20am

      I agree and think there will be riots in the streets if Democrats “miraculously” retain control of Congress.

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:22am

      Yes I understand – we have now problems with the machines that can also be hacked, mail in votes that may not count due to not being sent out in time; and if a Federal judge declares the mail in or machine taken votes null and void due to ‘technical irregularities’ or such nonsense, then guess who is still in power…Progressive Pelosi and the administriation fanatics.

      Anyone think this is why she has grown so confident lately? I hope it is she is just in a total state of denial…we need to be prepared though.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mix art)

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    • ironcowboy
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:25am

      Ah the brave new world of never again knowing how your vote was actually recorded. I mean, if you were using a simple (and cheap) paper ballot, you know exactly how it was recorded. Pay no attention to the flashing ballot screen, the great wizard of Oz knows what candidate is best for you. Oz knows you came into the voting booth like a cowardly lion, and now you have the green party badge of courage… not go fourth and act like the hero you are.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:29am

      troy Ny also had 50 fraudulent absentee ballots cast. investigation requiring the all democrat town committee to undergo dna testing. i do think that democrat election fraud will be prevelent across the country.

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    • ltb
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:49am

      Keep in mind that many of these electronic voting machines are manufactured in Venezuela by companies controlled by Obama’s buddy, Hugo Chavez. In 2006, exit polls showed Chavez had lost with only 41% of the vote, but when the electronic machines tallied the votes he won with 58% of the vote.

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    • itasca
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:57am

      A timely quote from the darling of the left Thomas Jefferson:

      “God forbid we should ever be twenty years with out rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always informed. The part which is wrong will be disconnected, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunners of death of the public liberty…and what nation can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not warned from time to time , that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What shall signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

      The democrat party has become the tyrants-

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    • ron the veteran
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 10:23am

      its time for the hugo chaves voting machines to all be checked this is getting way out of hand. we all know the dems will do anything up to and including vote machine rigging.this is why az still uses a paper ballot. this must be fix and fixed now!

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    • HEARDENOUGHCRAP
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 11:07am

      I‘m afraid you’re correct. Here in the Great Northwet, voter fraud has been rampant for some time. How many candidates do you know of that can be confirmed, had the vote counted again…still confirmed…had one county keep “finding votes” NINE DIFFERENT TIMES, while disqualifying a large part of the military vote,and had the OTHER candidate declared the winner…after which it was discovered several hundred fellons and deceased people voted? The last count stood. The TRUE winner was overturned by fraud. That is how we got our current “Ruler”. The left is not concerned with truth. It’s right out of the Sol Olinsky book……win by ANY means.

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    • Meganlthomas85
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 11:13am

      Have you seen the video of Nancy P. She is so confident that the dems will win. It scares me. I’m worried these powerful democrats are going to rig the election.

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    • Rogue
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 12:08pm

      Time for purple fingers, just like Iraq! Let them take two months to count the votes, and suspend the lame duck session while they determine the results.

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    • partytime
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 1:59pm

      Watch the thumb. He’s taping that other candidate.

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