Voting Machines in Pennsylvania Won’t Let Voters Choose Trump

It’s so obvious it needs no further discussion.  A country cannot have a properly-functioning form of representative government unless the elections are free and fair, generating a result that everyone accepts as valid.  Perhaps almost half of the voters might hate the result, but in elections free of fraud and errors, they would focus their frustration at the voters who chose the winner, not on the voting process itself.  This is as it must be.

Tragically, this might be how things ought to be, but they are not how things are.  At least not in this election.  And not with Hillary Clinton seeing it as her last chance to become president.

So we are faced with the continuing problem of voting machines switching voters’ choices from Trump to Clinton.  We’ve run into this before in earlier voting.  Now it’s happening on election day.  Why is this happening if officials knew of the problem weeks ago?  Like so much surrounding Hillary Clinton, this says “corruption.”

Note that this story is coming from a mainstream news source.  Not that that gives it any special reliability.  But it does indicate that the problem is big enough that even the news sources that are not typically friendly to Trump are seeing the need to report it.

Many areas are already seeing long lines with some officials saying they wouldn’t be surprised if voter turnout topped 80 percent.

However, there have been some scattered issues where voters are encountering problems.

“Every time I would push a candidate for the Republican party, it would come up for the Democratic candidate,” said voter David Drane.

Election judges in Clinton Township, Butler County confirmed there were issues with two of their eight automated voting machines. Most of the issues came when people tried to vote straight party ticket.

Do the math.  Two machine out of eight equals 25% of the voting machines having “issues.”  That’s enough of an error to flip the vote in most any state if it were actually repeated nation-wide.

Here’s one voter’s experience.  This is not encouraging.  It indicates that the problem happens even when a voter is not choosing a straight party vote as described above.

However, others said they specifically wanted to vote for Republican Donald Trump only to see their vote switched before their eyes to Democrat Hillary Clinton.

“I went back, pressed Trump again. Three times I did this, so then I called one of the women that were working the polls over. And she said you must be doing it wrong. She did it three times and it defaulted to Hillary every time,” Bobbie Lee Hawranko said.

So the solution was to “recalibrate” the machines?  What does that mean?  How about a plain, straightforward statement that the machines were “repaired?”  Read this:

Officials have recalibrated the machines and are confident that the problem has been resolved.

“I would like to know that my vote was for Trump, and not for Hillary,” voter Bobbie Lee said.

Of course a voter should expect that.  And that should never be in question.  When you vote for a candidate or on a particular issue, that’s how the vote is to be recorded.  This is so obvious it seems silly to have to mention it.

But this is equally obvious and just as ominous:  Note that the reports are Trump votes switching to Clinton, not the other way around.  If this problem were random, we’d expect the votes to flip both ways, not just from Trump to Hillary.

So, it looks like the voter fraud program conducted by Hillary’s campaign is underway.

Source:  CBS News