Voting Machine Confusion In Philly Cleared Up

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Voting Machine Confusion Explained

PHILADELPHIA-November 2, 2004 — Reports have circulated nationally that polling machines in Philadelphia had votes recorded on them before polling places opened. Officials say it was a matter of looking at the wrong numbers. Election officials say the problem started when the wrong counter was checked. The top counter keeps tracks of votes counted today. The bottom counter keeps tracks of votes cast in between service checks, and it already had some numbers when voting started Tuesday.

Republican observers in Philadelphia are lodging some of the earliest complaints, claiming that voting machines in the city already had thousands of votes recorded when the polls opened. City election officials say the GOP poll watchers got it wrong.
Deputy City Commissioner Ed Schulgen says the observers pulled the numbers from an odometer that records every vote ever cast on the machine in every election – not the number to be counted today.

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[Homer12]

1. There's some big fat smelly egg in their seething GOP faces.

They should be ashamed of trying to supress voters.

[CarolynEC]

2. Golly. The repuglican whiners got it wrong.

Well, knock me over with a feather!

[Mandate My Ass]

3. Somebody told me the repuke is now threatening to sue

despite this having been cleared up to everyone else's satisfaction. A friend told me they heard it on Faux News.

[GOPBasher]

4. GOP trying to suppress votes? No way!!!

Next thing you know, someone will tell me the sky is blue.