 Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan had trouble voting for
himself on Monday when early voting started in Illinois.
“I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my
opponent,” Moynihan said. “You could imagine my surprise as the same thing
happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the
machine registered a vote for a Democrat.”
The conservative website Illinois Review reported that “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 offered this gracious lesson to his followers on Twitter: “Be careful
when you vote in Illinois. Make sure you take the time to check your votes
before submitting.”
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 Cook County Board of Elections Deputy Communications Director Jim
Scalzitti, told Illinois Watchdog, the machine was taken out of
service and tested.
“This was a calibration error of the touch-screen on the
machine,” Scalzitti said. “When Mr. Moynihan used the touch-screen,
it improperly assigned his votes due to improper calibration.”
Scalzitti stressed that at no time were Moynihan’s votes actually
registered, and that voters are always asked to make sure the votes
they cast are correct before they are counted. Scalzitti praised
Moynihan for checking his ballot and alerting the election judge of
the machine’s failure.
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