Voting Problems in Pennsylvania
The biggest problem we're hearing about so far today is in Pennsylvania, where "massive problems" are being reported with voting machines in 37 counties. The Santorum campaign says that in some instances, votes for a candidate are being recorded for another candidate. I don't understand, however, how this would be visible to the voter.
A poster at the Election 2006 site on the Power Line Forum recounts his experience in central Pennsylvania:
I showed up at my polling location at 7:05 this morning. There was already a line and it didn’t seem to be moving.I asked a neighbor what the hold-up was and he informed me that one of the new voting machines was not initializing properly. The poll workers had asked everyone to wait outside until the problem could be rectified.
After a few more minutes had passed, a woman who was standing in line walked up to the front of the line, opened the door to the polling location and demanded to know what was going on. She then hollered…
“This is an outrage! This has Cheney written all over it!”
So, there you have it. If the Dems lose, it’s because Dick Cheney was messing with the voting machines in central PA.
Well, I hope the Dems lose. By the way, we apologize for the trouble many readers have had in accessing the news site today, and, in some instances, this site as well. Apparently the problem is simply due to heavy traffic. Our hosting service had assured us that our server would be able to handle the traffic for both Power Line and Power Line News. Apparently not, at least not today. The problem won't be fully fixed, I'm afraid, until tomorrow. But if you try a few times, you should be able to get into the Forum.
UPDATE: An Election 2006 poster has more:
I can confirm from the ground that Lebanon County was a mess earlier. The Board of Elections extended voting to 9 p.m.Nearby Cumberland County also had problems with votes for Santorum being recorded for Casey and votes for Swann being recorded for Rendell.
