Touchplay Voting Machines Generating Incorrect Ballots

From the Des Moines Register:

A Drake University law professor, Neil Hamilton, reported confusion with the new touch-screen voting machines, which are designed to help voters with disabilities who can't use a pen to fill in the ballot ovals.

Hamilton, who voted in Dallas County, said the electronic print-out of his vote showed a different candidate than the name he’d touched on the screen.

“I went and told the officials, ‘You’ve got a problem. This isn’t who I voted for,’” he said.

Election officials marked two of Hamilton’s ballots as spoiled before he was sure his third ballot had been tallied correctly.

Officials in the Dallas County auditor’s office could not be immediately reached for comment, but Polk County Auditor Michael Mauro said he’d heard a couple similar reports from around the area.

“They think the voting machine’s broke. They’re not,” Mauro said. “Let’s put this to bed right now. It’s a marking device, it doesn’t count any type of ballot. They’re not voting machines at all. Think of the marking device as an electronic pencil. All you do is turn off the marking device and use the regular pencil.”

Well, well, well. Michael Mauro.

Is that the same Michael Mauro who wants to be Secretary of State?

Is Michael Mauro attempting to excuse the incorrect printing of a paper ballot.

What if the voter doesn't check to see that the paper ballot has been incorrectly printed?

To mess up a close election, all you need to have is:

• A bunch of typical Democratic voter sabotage
• The hiring of a telemarketing firm by the party
• A "fake but accurate" voting machine overseen by the likes of Chet Culver or Michael Mauro to tip the difference and inject doubt.
  
• Simmer for a long time with a gullible corporate media staffed full of lefties
• And voila! Instant finger-pointing at Republicans.
  
• Rinse and repeat as necessary.