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Ohio's Voting Machines Busted, and Won't Be Fixed
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by Jordan Yerman | August 23, 2008 at 11:10 am
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Ohio's electronic voting machines, made by don't-call-them-Diebold, are broken, and won't be fixed by Election Day. Does that sound right to you? What do you think of a company that can't fix its software by November? What do you think of an election board that plans on using the broken machines anyway?
The problem can't be fixed before the Nov. 4 election, so Premier Election Solutions and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner are issuing guidelines to counties for how to avoid the problem.
"We will continue to monitor the situation and provide boards of elections with the instruction and support they need to ensure an orderly and efficient election and an accurate count of Ohioans' votes," Brunner said in a memo released today.
Premier, formerly Diebold Election Systems, initially speculated that the problem was a conflict between its system and anti-virus software.
But in a letter Tuesday to Brunner, Premier President David Byrd admitted that further testing showed a source-code error that can cause votes not to be recorded when memory cards are uploaded to computer servers under certain circumstances.
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at 11:54 on August 23rd, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 12:04 on August 23rd, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Sounds to me like they're getting all set for another typical American presidential election ...
It's probably time to get the UN observers here to watch how it all comes down ...
at 18:39 on August 23rd, 2008
I live in the heart of the matter -- Columbus, Ohio -- and can't wait to use these wonderul machines! I uploaded another photo of mine, a local ATM made by Diebold. Oddly enough, they've figured out how to make THOSE machines spit out receipts. So why not for the voting machines??
Ugh. Doesn't really matter, I'm voting for Ron Paul anyway, it'll get deleted no matter what.
at 06:47 on August 24th, 2008
Exactly! The purveyors of ATM machines telling us they can't manage to generate receipts? Thanks for adding those photos, 'chicken.
at 18:41 on August 23rd, 2008
Remind people of another reason we don't really live in a democracy.
at 19:59 on August 23rd, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.