Poll watcher sees Romney ballots changed
Witness to voting says he monitored as software redirected choices
Up
to 10 percent of the ballots cast at a polling station in Pennsylvania
reverted to a default, which gave Barack Obama a vote no matter who the
voter had selected, according to a poll watcher who was a witness to the
proceedings.
The incident took place in the state
where officials claimed Obama got a total of 19,605 votes in 59 voting divisions to zero for Mitt Romney and not far from the
100 precincts in Ohio where Obama got 99 percent of the vote, a feat not even achieved by third-world dictators, according to Market Daily News.
With evidence mounting that the vote tabulation did not reflect the
true choices of voters, talk-radio icon Rush Limbaugh echoed the Daily
News, saying Monday: “Third-world, tin-horn dictators don’t get [these
percentages]. I mean, the last guy that got this percentage of the vote
was Saddam Hussein, and the people that didn’t vote for him got shot.
This just doesn’t happen. Even Hugo Chavez [of Venezuela] doesn’t get
100 percent or 99 percent of the vote.”
It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an
auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the
vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would “change the
selection back to default – to Obama.”
He said that happened in about 5 percent to 10 percent of the votes.
He said the changes appeared to have been made by a software program.
Ashcroft said the format for computer programming has a default
status, and in this case it appeared to be designating a vote for Obama
each time it went to default.
He found it suspicious that Romney and Obama were in a virtual tie in
most polls, but Obama then suddenly surged ahead by a number of points
on election night.
“How the heck does that happen?” he wondered.
He said as a poll watcher, he was not allowed to communicate with
officials there, so his concerns were submitted later to the state GOP.
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Officials with the Republican Committee in Harrisburg did not respond to a WND request for comment.
Ashcroft explained he had been assigned to monitor who voted, and as
the evening went on and the local election computer system went up and
down, he discovered that some people who had marked as having voted
already also suddenly were reversed.
WND previously reported
Obama’s success was nominal in states where authorities required voter
identification, while he was very successful in states that did not
require it.
WND also reported prior to Election Day that officials in Virginia
were asked to investigate after a video caught the field director for
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran’s campaign in an apparent conspiracy to
commit election fraud.
The video sting by
James O’Keefe‘s Project Veritas,
first reported by WND, prompted
the resignation of Patrick Moran, who is also Jim Moran’s son, and a
criminal investigation by the Arlington County Police Department in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.
In a commentary today,
WND Founder and CEO Joseph Farah said “without a doubt” the
presidential election was stolen through voter fraud and manipulation.
He said the evidence so far has been anecdotal.
“I am convinced that at least 5 percent of the Democratic vote can be
attributed to fraud – illegal voters, illegal campaign contributions,
rigged balloting, intimidation at the polls, you name it.”
He noted WND’s “own investigation in which it demonstrated
conclusively that the Obama campaign welcomed foreign contributions by
intentionally leaving vulnerabilities in its web donation page that
allowed even those using bogus names, disposable credit cards and
foreign IP addresses to donate cash.”
In situations that appeared to be similar to that described by Ashcroft,
Fox News reported that voters in Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio
also said they had pushed a button on a touch-screen voting machine for
Romney, but the machines recorded their vote for Obama.
“The voters in question realized the error and were able to cast ballots for their actual choice,” the report said.
Joan Stevens said it took her three tries before the machine accepted her choice to vote for Romney, according to Fox.
“This is the first time in all the years that we voted that this has ever happened to me,” she said.
Elections officials said there was nothing wrong with the machine.
At the White House website, a report in the Examiner explains, there was posted a petition seeking a recount of the race.
“In one county alone in Ohio, which was a battleground state,
President Obama received 106,258 votes … but there were only 98,213
eligible voters. It’s not humanly possible to get 108 percent of the
vote,” the petition claims.
Just a few of the reports, excluding those that are on blog postings, were:
Fox News reported that two election judges were replaced after illegally allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots.
“In two counties, the number of registered
voters actually exceeds the voting-age population,” the report said.
And, it said, in 31 other counties, registrations are above 90 percent
of the population, “a rate regarded as unrealistic by most voting
experts.”
Fox News also documented
how Senate candidate Wendy Long, an attorney who was a clerk for
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, recounted her voting experience.
“A poll worker who was at the scanner studied my private ballot and
proceeded to tell me that it was rejected because I did not ‘fill in
every space.’ She then proceeded to indicate that I should mark the
Democratic line all the way down.”
The Market Daily News
reported on those 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that on
election day gave Romney zero votes, and Obama got 99 percent. “In more
than 50 different precincts, Romney received two votes or less,” the
report said. “One would think that such improbable results would get the
attention of somebody out there.”
According to Philly.com,
59 voting divisions in Philadelphia produced a “head-spinning figure,”
not one vote for Romney. “The unanimous support for Obama in these
Philadelphia neighborhoods – clustered in almost exclusively black
sections of West and North Philadelphia – fertilizes fears of fraud,
despite little hard evidence,” the newspaper said.
The Washington Times
reported that officials in Florida banned observers from seeing the
absentee ballots being opened and “there was no way to know whether the
absentee ballots that were produced were the same ones that were opened,
or if all the ballots were produced.”
Human Events
claimed Ohio voters who are native to Somalia were being given a slate
card saying, “Vote Brown all the way down” – an apparent reference to
the Democratic senator.
The Washington Times
reported its suspicions of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, including that
“in Philadelphia, the [New] Black Panthers are currently standing
outside polling booths, intimidating voters just like they did in 2008.”
It said, too, that 70 Republican polling inspectors were blocked from
access.
Among the blog postings in support of the concerns, cited by
columnist Andrea Shea King, were: