Dayton Daily News: NEARLY HALF OF VOTING MACHINES TESTED FAIL

[mod mom]

Nearly half of voting machines tested fail

Montgomery officials tested the 5% of machines that drew complaints; 56 of those 125 machines failed.


By Lynn Hulsey
Staff Writer

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

DAYTON — After two days of tests, the results are in: About 2,500 people cast ballots in November on 56 malfunctioning electronic touch-screen voting machines in Montgomery County, said Steve Harsman, county board of elections director.

He said it is impossible to know how many people finalized their electronic ballots without realizing that the Diebold Elections Systems machines were inaccurately registering their votes. But people had three chances to review their votes before finalizing them, and all the machines accurately tallied the votes that were finalized by voters, Harsman said.


On Tuesday, county election officials completed testing of 125 machines identified in voter complaints collected by Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, which called for the investigation. Some 2,530 voting machines were used in the county on Election Day.

Harsman said several malfunctioning machines were clustered at certain precincts, indicating they may have been damaged during delivery by a trucking company that hauls the machines to the polls.

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[robinlynne]

1. ohio? florida?

[mod mom]

3. Ohio-home of vote flipping.

[robinlynne]

2. It's OHIO!!!!! recount those votes. I say recount those votes!

[Nikki Stone1]

4. kick

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[bleever]

5. Thank god our ATMs are made by reputable companies.

Or is that more eGaming too?

Checking my statement.

[grannylib]

6. LMAO hee hee! My ATM is MADE BY DIEBOLD!!!!

Tons of them are. That's why it's so fuckin' ridiculous that Diebold resisted the call for a paper trail by saying it was tricky technologically or some damn thing....

would ANYONE use an ATM if it didn't give you a receipt?????

WTF????

[The Doctor.]

7. "they may have been damaged during delivery by a trucking company that hauls the machines to

the polls."

No... why don't they breakdown the precinct demographics before making this assumption?

[Pachamama]

8. Kick for the truth to get out....

....about the 2004 elections.....and why Bush still is in office...

:kick:

[DemReadingDU]

9. morning kick