Man arrested on suspicion of tampering with voting machine

The Associated Press ^ | November 4, 2022 | By JAMES ANDERSON

[Oldeconomybuyer]

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man who is a registered Democratic voter has been arrested on suspicion of tampering with voting equipment by allegedly inserting a USB thumb drive into a voting machine at a polling station during the primary election in June, authorities said.

No elections data were accessed, and the June 28 incident didn’t cause any major disruption to voting, authorities said.

Richard Patton, 31, of Pueblo was arrested on Thursday by members of the Pueblo Police Department High-Tech Crime Unit for investigation of tampering with voting equipment, a felony, and cybercrime-unauthorized access, a misdemeanor, the department said in a statement.

Court records indicate Patton was being held without bond at the Pueblo County Judicial Center pending an advisement hearing later Friday in which he will hear the pending charges against him.

Gilbert Ortiz, Pueblo County’s clerk and recorder, confirmed Friday that Patton has been a registered Democratic voter since 2019, when he switched his affiliation from the Green Party.

[RckyRaCoCo]

...“not even a smidgen of corruption”

[Howie66]

Gee. A fooking Democrat. Who would have thought that possible?

[rightwingcrazy]

His mistake was that he got caught.

[Pete Dovgan]

Probably wasn’t an official DNC memory stick…….

[Leep]

Did he put his stick in the wrong slot.
A lot of dims have trouble putting their stick in the correct slot.

[Chode]

June 28 incident... AP johnny on the spot

[Dr. Franklin]

Probably wasn’t an official DNC memory stick……

Perhaps he was stealing Dem votes for the Green Party, so he got prosecuted? There is no honor among thieves.

[Impala64ssa]

When I grew up in Rockland County, NY my dad was a Republican Committeeman. One of sleazier stunts the Dems pulled was on Election Day, bright and early they'd hire medical transport vans to pick up the residents at the local nursing homes to take them to the polling places, with the promise of a "free" lunch afterwards. Of course on route they'd hand the old folks lists of THEIR candidates (nod wink wink). They've come a looong way from those days.
Maybe we should consider going back to the old lever actuated voting machines? Surely with the technology today they can be made more tamper proof than what we have now

[FlingWingFlyer]

Now that all the RAT boyz are voluntarily allowing feminaziz to geld them, All the RAT boxes are blank anyway.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“...being held without bond”

There must be a mote in my eye. My eyes are playing tricks on me again.

[ronnie raygun]

This guy the arrest but the rat poll workers covered windows and locked out republican monitors while they pulled out bins from under tables in a presidential election no charges no names no shame

[MortMan]

Court records indicate Patton was being held without bond at the Pueblo County Judicial Center pending an advisement hearing later Friday in which he will hear the pending charges against him.

I thought Colorado was progressive, which means $0.00 bail and immediate release?!?

[doomtrooper99]

This stick was probably infected with malware.
How many other machines were infected?

This is why simple ballot box with paper ballots
is much more secure than Robocop voting
administered by the OCP.

This is why I am so worried about Nov 8.

[tomkat]

Must’ve really pained the AssPress to put this (D) story out there.

LOL

[frank ballenger]

From the Green Party to the Dem Party. What a genius.

[frank ballenger]

Good story.

I used to relate the one here (now I can’t remember the year of the Prez election) about GOP guys going to various polling places. They saw a small group of obviously mentally and physically challenged adults being guided in by men who had a white van.

Then the GOP watchers saw it again but were not sure and a
third time and this time they confronted them and it turned out Dems were telling them they would go in and vote Dem with them.

GOP guy asked one man if he knew what he was there to do.

“They told me I could go in there and my mother would be there.” So sad.

[blackdog]

It wasn’t widespread.

[rxh4n1]

“No elections data were accessed, and the June 28 incident didn’t cause any major disruption to voting, authorities said.”

Doesn’t say anything about ADDING votes. Why else the thumb drive?

[george76]

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