A handful of voting machines in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania have reportedly been switching votes from Republican to Democrat according to a local newspaper.
The Lebanon Daily News reports:
A problem with the calibration of electronic voting machines in Lebanon County has caused 5-6 machines to represent straight Republican tickets as straight Democratic tickets, said Michael Anderson, director of the Lebanon County Bureau of Elections.
In these cases, the voter attempted to vote for the full Republican ticket, but noticed in the review screen that the vote was going to a straight Democratic ticket instead, Anderson said. They alerted their poll workers, who alerted the Bureau of Elections.
The Bureau of Elections has a software expert who was able to solve the problem in each case, he said. It involves a calibration issue regarding the machine. The Republican and Democratic straight tickets appear next to each other on the ballot.
The newspaper was soliciting information from anyone else who may have experienced the issue:
VOTING PROBLEMS?
We are interviewing people right now that are telling us they voted each selection individually and when they clicked review, their ballot showed choosing Clinton when they voted Trump.
In one case, in Lebanon City, the man told the election offical and was told the touch screens can retain the oils of the fingers that had touched on it so far that day and need wiped down.
Has anyone else seen the wrong votes when they review their ballot?
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