MINERAL WELLS —At least two Palo Pinto County residents say they experienced early voting problems when the touch-screen voting machines they used kept switching their straight-party vote from Democratic to Republican.
“When I cast an early vote Wednesday at Palo Pinto County Courthouse, my vote was switched from Democrat to Republican right in front of my face — twice,” reported Lona Jones, a Precinct 1 county resident.
Later Wednesday, Jones looked online to see if this problem showed up elsewhere. She found an Internet article from the Charleston Gazette in Charleston, W.Va., citing voting irregularities similar to her experience with the
same type of machine used in Palo Pinto County — an Election Systems & Software’s iVotronic.
In the article titled “Some early W.Va. voters angry over switched votes,” the Gazette reported at least three West Virginia voters complained that touch-screen machines in one county clerk’s office kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6077085.htmlVery troubling indeed. Looks like the same republican tactics used in 2000 and 2004. Privatization of public voting is recipe for corruption and that is happening.