Poll peculiarity: Voter says ballot choice pre-selected

A Las Vegas man says the electronic ballot that appeared on his voting screen popped up already marked for Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Tony Scodwell, 67, says it happened Saturday at Meadows Mall when he was early voting.

"The first thing to appear was U.S. Senate selection with Harry Reid already checked," Scodwell said.

Clark County registrar of voters Larry Lomax says the scenario Scodwell described "is absolutely impossible" and that he likely brushed the screen inadvertently.

"We've also had complaints from Democrats that they opened the machine and Sharron Angle was marked," Lomax said. "It cannot happen. It doesn't happen. It is because they somehow brushed it."

Scodwell, who said he was able to go back and check the ballot for his preferred candidate in the race, Republican Sharron Angle, sticks to his version of events.

"It is not like I fell off a tomato truck. I'm not a stupid person," he said. "I'm quite confident that I'm correct."

Scodwell says he alerted a poll worker who helped him cast a ballot the way he intended but couldn't explain how a pre-selected choice might have appeared on the screen.

He acknowledged there is no way to verify he didn't inadvertantly touch the screen, even though he says he is certain he didn't.

"It is impossible to check," said Scodwell.