PENNSYLVANIA — Officials are investigating complaints of “vote flipping” at polls in western Pennsylvania, including Butler County, and legal action could be taken.
Butler County GOP chairman Ed Natali said the state GOP notified him of a possible lawsuit because of the voting issues in Butler County and across the state.
Problems were reported at a precinct in Clinton Township by voters including Dr. Bobbie Lee Hawranko.
“The first thing is, ‘Who do you want for president?’ And I picked Trump, and it defaulted to Hillary and it defaulted to a blank screen,” Hawranko said.
A poll worker assisted Hawranko in correctly casting her ballot for Donald Trump.
The director of the Butler County Bureau of Elections told Channel 11 News that voting machines in Clinton Township were recalibrated because of the voting issues, many of which happened when people tried to vote a straight-party ticket.
“Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you want to be heard. And to think that a machine could change all of that is not something that I want to see for my kids,” Shane Wolf, of Clinton Township, said.
Meanwhile, in Allegheny County, voting issues have been reported in a handful of areas, according to spokeswoman Amie Downs, who released the following statement:
Target 11’s Rick Earle learned from voters that, as in Butler County, some of the reported issues arose when people tried to vote a straight party.
At the West Deer Township Volunteer Fire Company No.3 in Gibsonia, voters said that because of the reported machine problems, poll workers told them to vote for the individual races as opposed to a straight-party ticket.