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Election Conspiracy of the Day: Voting Machine Techs and Harry Reid

By Eric Lipman

Hang in there, folks. It's almost over. Less than a week until Election Day. While I'll miss some of the more hilarious campaign ads ("I carry a gun in my boot!"), it will be nice to be able to go back to focusing on the real issues of the day, like whether Miley Cyrus has converted to Hinduism. Until then, though, I'm compelled to bring you stories like this one. Fox 5 Las Vegas is reporting that several citizens participating in the early voting process in Boulder City, Nev. have shown up to find that incumbent Democratic Senator Harry Reid's name has been conveniently pre-checked for them on the fancy electronic voting machines. Or so says one voter, Joyce Ferrara. But she says the same thing happened to her husband. So, there you go. The Clark County voter registrar says the issue is that the touch screens are just super sensitive. No big whoop. That sounds reasonable. God knows I still can't successfully complete a three word text message on my iPhone without a typo. But could there be another explanation? One that would make for better sound bites? Of course there is. See, the technicians who maintain the voting...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).