Ghost voting claim repeated
On Nov. 1, a lawyer for the Republican National Committee sent a letter to Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller and the secretaries of state of five other states asking that voting machines be recalibrated because in early voting they were registering votes cast for Mitt Romney as votes for Barack Obama.
The lawyer, John Phillippe Jr., gave no substantiation for the charge. This is the same attorney who earlier this year threatened to overturn the delegate results of Nevada’s Republican state convention.
Phillippe wrote that there were “media and citizen reports of voting machine errors taking place in your states,” but did not provide them. One such incident in Washoe County was reported by voting officials and was solved by recalibrating the machine.
A similar claim was made about the 2010 Nevada U.S. Senate election but went similarly unsourced and unsubstantiated, and a joint state/FBI probe turned up nothing.