WTF: "Toggle switch glitch likely caused some ballots to be counted twice"

[Wilms]

Voting machines removed in Grafton

By CAROL ROBIDOUX
Union Leader Staff

3/16/06

Grafton – No matter how you do the math, 193 “yeas” plus 198 “nays” don’t add up to 369 votes.

McDow, who is trained to operate the voting machine, said she learned more after placing a call yesterday to LHS Associates of Methuen, Mass., the company that services the town’s Accu-Vote machine.

“They told me one of the dip switches let go, or the problem had to do with one of the dip switches not being set — that’s what LHS told me after I read them the information from the tally sheet,” McDow said.

The toggle switch glitch likely caused some ballots to be counted twice, McDow said.

“It’s really crazy. Now we will just have to wait and find out for sure,” she said.

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[MADem]

1. How apropos, the byline, from "Graft" on.... n.t

[MadMaddie]

2. Why is there a toggle switch on the machines in the first place?

[Wilms]

3. I was hoping someone would ask. n/t

:grr:

[MadMaddie]

6. It's obvious that using any type of machine at this point

in this country is a flawed process..

We need to go back to the paper ballots until a process for the whole country can be implemented.

Toggles.....sigh....

[GuvWurld]

4. Find out for sure?

Um, no, this supports the idea that we will never know for sure.

There is no basis for confidence in the results reported from U.S. elections.
--The Voter Confidence Resolution.

[Wilms]

5. And in Webb County (TX) Judge Louis Bruni must be reading GuvWurld.

"I have no confidence in your (Villarreal's) office and I have no confidence in your (Moody's) machines," Bruni said. "You've disgraced this county."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=417036&mesg_id=417100

[Wilms]

7. .