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  • 2014-10-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Cook County Voting Machines Rigged to Change Votes? (en)
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  • On 22 October 2014, a conservative blog in Illinois published Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan's account of an early voting glitch. According to Moynihan, his attempt to cast votes for himself and other Republican candidates on 20 October 2014 in Cook County, Illinois, resulted in a votes being recorded for Democratic opponents instead: While using a touch screen voting machine in Schaumburg, Moynihan voted for several races on the ballot, only to find that whenever he voted for a Republican candidate, the machine registered the vote for a Democrat in the same race. He notified the election judge at his polling place and demonstrated that it continued to cast a vote for the opposing candidate's party. Moynihan was eventually allowed to vote for Republican candidates, including his own race. Moynihan also tweeted about his polling place experience on 20 October 2014: At the time, Moynihan expressed concern that fellow voters would also encounter the same issue at the polls: On 20 October 2014, Moynihan's issue was reported locally alongside another early voting issue from Arlington Heights, in which local news sources reported an error that involved the wrong signatures popping up for voters who came in to cast ballots. The Cook County clerk's office immediately addressed both issues, and it was determined that the machine on which Moynihan had attempted to cast his ballot had been improperly calibrated: Moynihan's issue occurred on the first day of early voting in Cook County, and officials said a tiny fraction of voters were affected by the glitch: After the election concluded, Cook County Clerk's office Deputy Communications Director James Scalzitti explained how difficult it would have been for any voter to fully cast an unintended vote (even on a machine that may have been miscalibrated) and maintained that all reported instances of voter problems had been immediately addressed and corrected: Scalzitti also said that Moynihan's heavily circulated created false impressions that voting glitches were widespread and that a miscalibration issue favored one party over another: On 22 October 2016, the 2014 Cook County calibration error claim was recirculated on Facebook as a purportedly contemporaneous account. (en)
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