Rhode Island's biggest cities are among the slowest-growing in …
This week: Noah Fulmer, executive director of Farm Fresh Rhode …
_20130326211339_60_45.JPG "Coventry officials say school pension plan set to run dry isn't their problem"){kind=small}
Moderate Party founder Ken Block will once again be the face of…
U.S. Rep. David Cicilline is co-sponsoring three bills designed…
Advertisement
Spider delays Mass. town's vote count
Polling machine malfunctioned Tuesday morning
Updated: Thursday, 08 Nov 2012, 7:32 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 08 Nov 2012, 7:32 PM EST
REHOBOTH, Mass. (AP) -- It wasn't hanging chads or voter fraud that delayed the vote count in one Massachusetts town -- it was a spider.
Rehoboth Town Clerk Kathleen Conti says one of the town's aging voting machines, which she's been pressing to have replaced for several years, malfunctioned Tuesday morning.
She called a technician, who said a spider web apparently prevented the machine's scanner from counting ballots.
Conti tells The Sun Chronicle of Attleboro all Rehoboth's voting machines received preventive maintenance a month ago.
The vote count wasn't completed until Wednesday afternoon.
Rehoboth voters favored Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, but went for Democratic U.S. House candidate Joseph Kennedy III.
Rehoboth, with about 12,000 residents, is about 50 miles southwest of Boston.
Ground rules for posting comments: No profanity or personal attacks. Please comment on the subject of the story itself. If you do not follow these rules, we will remove your post. Keep it civil, folks!
Our commenting section is powered by IntenseDebate. If you registered for an account but didn't receive a verification e-mail, check your spam folder or click here for more information. For additional technical help, click here.
Email This
Print This
View Story on a Single PageAdvertisement
Advertisement
