This type of voting machine was less buggy: a large piece of paper used with a voting machine in Chicago in 1904.
(Credit: Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.)
An electronic voting machine in Pennsylvania was briefly taken offline today -- and apparently reconfigured and placed back in service -- after a YouTube video showed evidence of voting irregularities.
The video, which received a flurry of attention after being posted at Reddit.com, appeared to show an attempted vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama being reflected as a vote for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Republicans have also warned of voting machine glitches going in the other direction. In a letter (PDF) to state voting officials last week, the GOP's top lawyer said the party has received reports of machines that "populated a vote for Barack Obama when a voter cast his or her ballot for Mitt Romney."
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