YouTube Video Shows PA Voting Machine Switching Obama Vote to Romney
By: Scott Picken
Updated: November 6, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA: A YouTube video has surfaced of a voting machine turning a vote for President Barack Obama into a vote for Mitt Romney. The poster is identified as 'centralpavote' and does not give the exact location where the video was taken, and it is impossible to verify whether the video is genuine. However, 'NBC News' is reporting the machine has been disabled. You can view the video at the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM
While considered to be leaning for Obama, the Presidential race in Pennsylvania is tight.
The poster also put this explanation on the link:
I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
I asked the voters on either side of me if they had any problems and they reported they did not. I then called over a volunteer to have a look at it. She him hawed for a bit then calmly said "It's nothing to worry about, everything will be OK." and went back to what she was doing. I then recorded this video.
There is a lot of speculation that the footage is edited. I'm not a video guy, but if it's possible to prove whether a video has been altered or not, I will GLADLY provide the raw footage to anyone who is willing to do so. The jumping frames are a result of the shitty camera app on my Android phone, nothing more.
