Ohio Election Agents View Computer Repair

[Ian David]

Is this a duplicate? It's only got 37 votes on Yahoo, so maybe it isn't a dupe.

Ohio Election Agents View Computer Repair
Mon Dec 20,11:24 PM ET

OGAN, Ohio - Election officials watched Monday as a technician repeated a repair he had made to a vote tallying computer, then announced they had found no evidence of any sort of tampering, despite a congressman's request for an FBI (news - web sites) probe.
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Rapp explained that the 14-year-old computer's battery needed for rebooting was low. The technician swapped the hard drive to a newer machine to read the information needed for reboot before reinstalling it in the original.

"During this whole process, the ballots were locked up," Rapp said.

Ohio and its 20 electoral votes determined the outcome of the election, tipping the race to President Bush (news - web sites) when Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) conceded the next morning.

Avg Rating: 3.42, 37 votes
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041221/ap_on_re_us/ohio_vote

[saracat]

1. Already posted. Old news!

But worthwhile post!

[tridim]

2. Swapped the HD to a different computer to "read the information"

Or to modify the software contained on it before putting it back into the original computer. Is this not so freaking obvious to anyone else? They hacked this thing before, during and now after the election, yet nobody except DU seems to question the results. Sigh.