West Virginia Voters Using Corrupted Voting Machines?

   We all knew that it would not be long before the stories about machines picking the wrong candidate would surface.

WVGazette

At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win.

Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.

"When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain," said Matheney, who lives in Kenna.

Calvin Thomas, 81, who retired from Kaiser Aluminum in Ravenswood in 1983 and now lives in Ripley, experienced the same problem.

"When I pushed Obama, it jumped to McCain. When I went down to governor's office and punched [Gov. Joe] Manchin, it went to the other dude. When I went to Karen Facemyer [the incumbent Republican state senator], I pushed the Democrat, but it jumped again.

"The rest of them were OK, but the machine sent my votes for those top three offices from the Democrat to the Republican," Thomas said.

Deputy Secretary of State Sarah Bailey said, "When we received a call about this, we immediately called the county and told them to recalibrate the machines to make sure the finger-touch [area] lines up with the ballot.

   This my friends is what I call election fraud made possible by both the Republican Party and the makers of the electronic voting machines. You will soon hear such bullshit as " software glitch " or whatever, but that is not true.

   Remember the last two Presidential elections? All of these software glitches always favor the Republicans and never the Democrats.  That is not a glitch, that is theft. Only two options with the software. The stuff has been hacked and programmed to switch votes to the Republicans, or the machines are programmed to switch votes in the first place.

    Keep an eye on your vote, people. Take a camera phone with you and get a picture of your vote (s). We cannot allow another theft in a Presidential election, especially this one.

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Obama Gets Endorsement From Chicago Tribune

   This is a rather surprising and a very big endorsement coming from the Tribune as they have never endorsed a Democrat for President of the United States.

Chicago Tribune

On Nov. 4 we're going to elect a president to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense of national purpose.
The strongest candidate to do that is Sen. Barack Obama. The Tribune is proud to endorse him today for president of the United States.

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since he entered politics a dozen years ago. We have watched him, worked with him, argued with him as he rose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator to the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready.

  That is three great endorsement for Friday, the first one being from The           Washington Post, and then from the...

 LA TIMES

We need a leader who demonstrates thoughtful calm and grace under pressure, one not prone to volatile gesture or capricious pronouncement. We need a leader well-grounded in the intellectual and legal foundations of American freedom. Yet we ask that the same person also possess the spark and passion to inspire the best within us: creativity, generosity and a fierce defense of justice and liberty.

The Times without hesitation endorses Barack Obama for president.
Our nation has never before had a candidate like Obama, a man born in the 1960s, of black African and white heritage, raised and educated abroad as well as in the United States, and bringing with him a personal narrative that encompasses much of the American story but that, until now, has been reflected in little of its elected leadership. The excitement of Obama's early campaign was amplified by that newness. But as the presidential race draws to its conclusion, it is Obama's character and temperament that come to the fore. It is his steadiness. His maturity.

  The Tribune endorsement is surprising especially since they endorsed John McCain back in the primaries.

UPDATE:  Obama has also been endorsed by the Chicago Sun-Times

Our endorsement for president of the United States goes to Sen. Barack Obama, Chicago’s adopted son. He has the unique background, superior intellect, sound judgment and first-rate temperament to lead our nation in difficult times.

  In all fairness, I should note that John McCain was endorsed by.......NOBODY

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