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Viral Video: Texas Voting Machine Glitch Won’t Let You Vote Republican

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You know what they say: Don’t mess with Texas…voters. With YouTube accounts. Why? Because they’ll upload it all onto the web. Yesterday, a Dallas resident went to a local library to cast an early vote for Rick Perry, Texas’ incumbent Republican governor. But due to an alleged bug with the Votetronic Polling Machine, his attempts at democracy were thwarted: whenever he selected Gov. Perry’s button, the machine instead selected all Green Party candidates on the ticket.

When the Green Party is getting straight-ticket votes in Texas, something is probably amiss. But the question is, what? The video’s uploader says it’s “a serious bug in the Votetronic Polling Machine,” while others say the video’s a fake. There have been more than a few suggestions that the trick is in the voter’s thumb, which is secretly selecting Green Party candidates while the index finger distracts us from the sleight-of-hand at play.

Voting machine bug or fake video? Until we find out for sure, judge for yourself:

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  • Harry Flashman

    Meh.

    Not sure about this. An attempt to cause headline hysteria? Maybe. I don’t think the public should bite on this one – yet.

    If it turns out to be real, then the publick should bite – and bite hard.

  • BatBoy

    If it were a vote for a Democrat that did not work…Robert Kennedy Jr would be on the phone trying to strike the next book deal. (It is the old saying….you gotta make hay when the sun is shinning)

    I agree with you Harry…this is a wait and see!

  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    I commented on this video earlier on another blog and I’m with the “thumb” people, who also reference the message on the purple screen. Primarily I’m in that camp because the problem hasn’t been reported wide and because other than to produce something for Reddit, I can find no other reason for a person to video their vote.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    “Glitch”.

    No. I don’t now.

    One thing seems certain though. Both parties will seek to use this in their favor.

    The Democrats will accuse the Republicans of dabbling with conspiracies and the Republicans will claim that Democrats uploaded this to frame Republicans.

  • bealzebubba

    This would be great proof of something if I could actually read the names…but since all I have to go by is what the article tells me it says: :::shrug:::

    I think, if anything, this give fuel to the Democrat’s argument that the electronic voting machines are faulty STILL and I’m sure the Green Party candidates are whooping high-fives left and right.

  • stoogedudes

    CURSE YOU, OBAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

  • whytee

    Voting machines have to go. I don’t trust them. I don’t want to vote on them. They’re hackable, and they’re not transparent.

    JUST SAY NO TO VOTING MACHINES!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    “Voting machine bug or fake video? Until we find out for sure,….”

    You ought not even publish this. If true, then it’s a news story. If it’s a fake video, then you’re practicing yellow journalism.

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/07/what-is-color-of-glenn-beck.html

  • dahni

    Poor journalism. Do you not check any factuality before rushing to press? It’s news if true. It’s news if it is a fake and the fakers get caught. It’s not news yet; it’s yellow press stupidity.

  • Shasta

    i agree with CURSE YOU OBAMA…………….NEVER IN MY 58 YRS have i seen this country in such disarray and disfunction! One would think that it was Bad Enough Slick Willie getting his Willie Slicked at the white house was bad, but this OBAMA CHARACTER IS THE WORSE EVER!!!!! GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE!!

  • http://none pyrope

    Some 18 year old kids were taken from a high school in Cincinnati so they could go vote! When they got to the polls to mark their ballots, they were given ballots for Democrats, so that’s the only people they could vote for. Afterwards, they were all taken out for ice cream.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Shasta says:
    “i agree with CURSE YOU OBAMA…………….NEVER IN MY 58 YRS have i seen this country in such disarray and disfunction! One would think that it was Bad Enough Slick Willie getting his Willie Slicked at the white house was bad, but this OBAMA CHARACTER IS THE WORSE EVER!!!!! GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE!!”

    There’s the voice of the old-style AOL story board comment. I used to pick on them there, but I find a usefulness for these kinds of emotional rants. This is a rational perspective on this and maybe the nest election.

    The Real Royal King says:
    “I am not sure that a lurch to the left by the Democrats is inevitable. The rightward trajectory of the Republicans is going to free up space in the middle. I think Democrats may take up that space.”

    I’ve read analysis by Paul Waldman and heard on some show that this next Congress will be more divided than the one we have if the Republicans take over there.

    There is only one better argument for voting for Democratics than to realize that no domestic issues will get resolved if the R’s control Congress. Instead progress already made will get defunded, they will attempt to shut the gov’t down and some moron or two will want to impeach Obama because he hasn’t personally shown some Tea Party Congressman from the state of Dumbfukistan his birth certificate. Everyone who wants a dysfunctional government should vote Republican Nov. 2nd.

    The biggest reason to unseat Republicans is because of the Dred Scott decision of our time, i.e. CU v FEC. Everyone who wants to have a government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich (plutocracy) should vote for R’s this November. That’s the overriding issue of this and probably the next elections. The Party of Lincoln has become the Party of “Don’t tax the rich” and to hell with the middle class.

    Spread this far and wide. Take 10 minutes. Using e-mail, FB, Twitter, etc, please share this URL with every undecided and independent voter you know. Have them share it. Glenn Beck was caught with his hand in the cookie jar of the plutocrats. Share this URL:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/becks-fake-populism-exposed-he-sides.html

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Change that to: Glenn Beck was hobnobbing with the plutocrats. No hands anywhere.

  • njoy-d-ride

    Humm…. Video removed by the user… I know that the voting machine I used – which was different from the one shown above- cast my vote correctly – or at least it said it did!

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