Front Page "Check Twice Before You Vote"

[elfrangel]

Not sure if this goes here, but this is on the front page of my local newspaper....


Check twice before you vote

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Phil Russell, chairman of the Faulkner County Election Commission, said one voter did complain that they cast a vote for one candidate and saw the opposing candidate's name go by on the paper trail after the vote was cast.

He explained the electronic voting machines record the vote when voter lifts their finger, not when they press down on the screen. In this case, the person dragged their finger on the touch screen and inadvertently selected a candidate they did not intend to vote for, he said.

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Faulkner County Clerk Melinda Reynolds said the voter who accidentally voted for the undesired candidate was able to correct the mistake.

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Ken Ingram, IT manager for Faulkner County, addressed curiosity about the wireless Internet link at the early voting site at the Second Baptist Church youth building. Concerned citizens reported the wireless network was unencrypted and didn't have password protection.

Ingram said, "It is an open access point, but all the security is through the Web page, controlled by the state. You as a user could not break into it. There is no data kept on the machines. They are just there to get onto the Internet. No data is stored locally, and the voting machines are not connected to the Internet.

"Normally I don't set up a non-secure network, but if someone wanted to go in and get something, there's nothing there but the operating system. They have one central point to keep track of who has voted. They input your ID number into a web interface that goes back to the state database. All the security is there."

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