BBV: Fla. Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw

[SharonAnn]

Fla. Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw

10 minutes ago


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Touchscreen voting machines in 11 counties have a software flaw that could make manual recounts impossible in November's presidential election, state officials said.

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The machines, made by Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Neb., fail to provide a consistent electronic "event log" of voting activity when asked to reproduce what happened during the election, state officials said.

Officials with the company and the state Division of Elections said they believe they can fix the problem by linking the voting equipment with laptop computers. Florida's two largest counties — Miami-Dade and Broward — are among those affected by the flaws.

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State officials say there is no need for recounts, or an audit trail, with the touchscreen system because it was designed to prevent people from voting in the same race more than once — an overvote — and provide multiple alerts to voters to warn them when they are skipping a race — an undervote.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=7&u=/ap/20040612/ap_on_el_pr/florida_voting_machines

[Timefortruth]

1. If it weren't so predictable, it would be laughable.nt

[Catfight]

2. Jeb replies: la la la I can't hear you..la la la. There's nothing wrong

with florida's voting machines. la la la...I don't care, I will give my brother another victory...lalala...I look like a pig. lalala..my brother looks like a monkey, we're the barnyard bushies.

[shraby]

4. All they need is to have the

voting machines linked to laptops. Bwhahahahahahah!
How many laptops will be linked?

[0rganism]

3. They have a point -- there's really no need to recount paperless VMs

If the machine was programmed to fuck up in the first place, it's going to fuck up on the recount, too.

BBV makes a joke out of recounts. If you touch the Gore part of the screen, and the machine decides you meant to press the Bush part, what the hell are you going to recount? Bits incorrectly assigned in memory? Have electrical engineers suddenly begun to doubt the accuracy of their digital adders? The problem is not intrinsically the machines themselves, it's their utter lack of tangible ballots.

[Bushfire]

5. more national attention on the FL hypocrisy ... n/t

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