Summit voting gear flunks

[zbdent]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14055096.htm

The computer memory cards in the newoptical-scan voting equipment at the Summit County Board of Elections have experienced a 30 percent failure rate in testing this week.

A spokeswoman for the company that makes the voting machines said the problem can be corrected before the May 2 primary.

A consulting company that Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell hired has been in the county since Monday testing all the new voting equipment before its planned use May 2.

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Jerry Amick, ES&S' account service manager for Ohio, said 28 Ohio counties have the company's optical-scan machines, but testing in those counties showed no problems. ``No other counties in Ohio got the bad cards; they already have pre-testing done,'' Amick said.

He denied that the cards by this particular manufacturer were distributed nationally and said a national recall will not be necessary. Amick would not name the manufacturer.

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zbdent notes - the fix is in, folks . . .

[acmejack]

1. They expect to have that rate up to 100% in time for the election.

So Blackwell isn't worried, he still expects to carry the all important Summit County.

[zbdent]

2. Summit county generally goes heavily Dem

so you can see why they would want a large failure rate for voting machines . . . this will be a "test run" . . .

[maseman]

4. What's even more funny is that...

Diebold's world headquarters is about 30 seconds from the Summit County border.

[mtnester]

3. It is even worse than you think

take a look at Blackwell's directive ordering all "memory cards" to be delivered to his office, then sent back just in time for primaries and elections:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=415533&mesg_id=415533

[Algorem]

5. something's not adding up right