Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year

In a Slashdot posting last week, the criminal investigation being conducted in Franklin County Ohio shows that several voting machines listed a candidate as withdrawn from the race when, in fact, he was not. By the time the investigation identified which machines had been affected, the candidate's name was back on the ballot.

While normally, this could be dismissed as confusion or mistake on the part of the voter(s) who noticed it, in this case, the person who first noticed was the Ohio Secretary of state Jennifer Brunner.

"This is a huge problem," Brunner said. "there is great concern that not every voter has the same ballot."

A SysTest report notes that voters in other precincts also reported seeing "candidate withdrawn" on their machines.

For the complete story, see The Columbus Dispatch.