ADN/AP: Problems with touchscreen machines slow vote count (Alaska)

[harpboy_ak]

Problems with touchscreen machines slow vote count


By MATT VOLZ
The Associated Press

(Published: August 23, 2006)

Problems with Alaska’s new touchscreen voting machines slowed election returns Tuesday and caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload vote totals from several precincts across the state.

Election coordinator Lauri Wilson said several Diebold touchscreen machines in Southeast Alaska, the Interior and near Nome did not upload their votes into the Division of Elections’ central computing system. The machines’ modems either did not get a dial tone or had other problems, Wilson said.

full story at http://www.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8113627p-8006175c.html

FYI, all of Alaska's touch screen machines have the printed tape option. Most Alaskans are used to the optical scan ballots and prefer them --- and according to the judges in my precinct, don't trust the touchscreen machines.

At yesterday's primary, we also reinstated strict campaign finance laws and voted to tax the cruise industry, and Repugs sent their Gov. Frank Murkowski into lame duckdom --- even they couldn't stand him!

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Woo-hoo, woo-hoo!! Frank is GONE.

We saw that on the news tonight about the touch screens. Pretty funny after all the assurances they were giving that everything had been checked out and would be working fine. I'll never vote on one of those things.

Any surprises in your congressional elections down there?

[roguevalley]

4. in our Soldotna precinct, we had a choice but no one was taking up

the electronic thingo. :)

[FogerRox]

2. Thanks, Kn R

that Palin girl is real pretty.... LOL

[zreosumgame]

3. well DUH