Computers Deliver Slow Counts

[Spazito]

(with the kind permission of creativelcro, who found this article)

How smoothly last Tuesday’s recall election went in the city of Berkeley depends upon which end of the process you observed. Poll workers reported a nearly flawless experience by voters using the Diebold touch-screen voting machines throughout the city. But there were glitches in the vote compiling process.

And while Alameda County preliminary vote totals were available early Wednesday morning, precinct or even city results weren’t—even as late as Thursday afternoon.

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But Ginnold said that she was at a loss to know why compiled city results (such as the number of votes for each candidate and for or against each issue in Berkeley) were not available two days after the election. She said that such results are normally available to the public on the night of the election.

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Ginnold said she had no information as to why the Berkeley machines malfunctioned, but said that in other upload centers in the county, some of the uploads failed when workers plugged the modem into the wrong slot.

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=10-10-03&storyID=17546

[karlschneider]

1. Oh. Some idiot plugged the modems into the Democrat slot. Got it.

:grr:

I can't think of anything cogent to add right now, my head hurts too much from banging it on the desk.

[Spazito]

2. LOL and it just keeps coming!

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[creativelcro]

3. I hope...

they did not try to plug them into the electric power sockets... That might explain transmission failures :) -creativelcro

[MoonRiver]

4. Yep. There's always a few untidy Dem votes to scrub away.

Wonder if anybody will even blink when a statewide election happens and the Dem gets NO votes in CA? :argh:

[madfloridian]

5. Question: what percentage of the vote was in when they declared Arnie?

I have seen some pages linked here, but they called it well before the election was over. I know, I know, that has happened in the past. Just curious what percentage was enough to "project" the winner, since about half a million are missing.

[creativelcro]

6. have a look

at VoteScam: The staling of America, by the Collier brothers.
I know, the book has many limitations, no citations, not academic. But it's all about this stuff, counting votes, fishy stuff, secrecy....Just 1-2 decades back...
-creativelcro