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Early Voting Sees Reports of Voter Intimidation, Machine Malfunctions

Early voting has begun, and problems are already emerging at the polls. In
West Virginia, voters using touchscreen machines have claimed their votes
were switched from Democrat to Republican. In North Carolina, a group of
McCain supporters heckled a group of mostly black supporters of Barack
Obama. In Ohio, Republicans are being accused of trying to scare newly
registered voters by filing lawsuits that question their eligibility. We
speak to NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller, author of *Loser Take All:
Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy*. [includes rush transcript]
*AMY GOODMAN: *Just days after reports that six early voters in at least two
West Virginia counties claimed their votes were switched from Democrat to
Republican, a couple in Nashville, Tennessee reported similar problems with
paperless voting machines. In West Virginia, one voter said, "I hit Obama,
and it switched to McCain. I am really concerned about that. If McCain wins,
there was something wrong with the machines."

In Tennessee, a filmmaker couple also had difficulties casting their vote
for the Democratic candidate, the Brad Blog reports. They had to hit the
Obama button several times before it actually registered, and in one case it
momentarily flipped from Obama to Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney.
Patricia Earnhardt said, "The McKinney button was located five rows below
the Obama button." The couple in Nashville were using machines made by the
same company as those in the counties in West Virginia—by Election Systems
and Software.
For more:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/22/votes