The Attleborough Sun-Chronicle reports that a spider got inside a voting machine on election day, thereby preventing the scanner inside from correctly counting ballots. Poll workers stayed up all night to count Rehoboth, MA.'s ballots by hand; presidential candidate Mitt Romney emerged victorious.

  • http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

    So the town voted for legal medical marijuana… and Mitt Romney? Town!? Y U no think!?

  • http://twitter.com/cjporkchop cjporkchop

    “Election authorities suspected there might be a problem when the machine reported 100% of votes cast for Spider/Spider of the Spider Party.
    “State Spider Party representatives deny any wrongdoing and claim the spider who tampered with the machine acted alone.”

  • Boundegar

    It’s nice to think at least one town in MA voted for Romney.  After all, he was their carpetbagger governor, I’m glad somebody wanted to give him a second chance,

    • fuzzyfuzzyfungus

      Unfortunately for his chances in MA, presidential-candidate-Romney ran on a strongly anti-governor-Romney, and snidely anti-MA, platform…

  • http://horseisahorse.myopenid.com/ HorseIsAHorse

    The spider caused more election havoc than the “Black Panther” standing outside that precinct in Philadelphia. And in a Republican-leaning town, no less. Why isn’t Fox News reporting on this?

  • tim

    8 people labored into the night to count 800 ballots? Really?

    • Hal

      If each ballot includes votes for multiple offices, perhaps dozens, I can see it taking at least few minutes to record each one 

      • tim

        Good point.. I just think they may be overselling their dedication a bit.

        • Boundegar

          Pfft.  I bet they stayed up all night getting drunk on martinis and watching QVC.

          • http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

            Quality Votes Cast.

  • PhosPhorious

    J. Jonah Jameson was right!  That Spider is a menace!

  • Rich Keller

    I blame Opisthosoma.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I read that as ‘opisthodomos’ and couldn’t figure out why they were counting votes in the back of the naos.

  • Aeron Michaelangelo

    Someone needs to submit a bug report.