AHHHHH! 2 Of 3 Tests Of New Ballot Scanners Fail

[orleans]

CLEVELAND -- The third time was the charm for pretest of the new optical ballot scanners at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

Chief Investigator Duane Pohlman reported that the board ran two tests of the scanners on Friday, and during both tests, the computer repeatedly showed an error message.

However, a third test ran successfully.

The Board of Elections said previous tests of the scanners were successful, and officials do not know why the scanners did not initially read the ballots.

Pohlman reported that the BOE is looking into possibly having a batch of bad disks.

Friday's tests were public pretests that are required by law.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/15453424/detail.html

hey--i know--why doesn't congress pass a fucking law that says that every vote MUST be counted? and then we hand count the votes. that might take care of the "possibly having a batch of bad disks." (there is NO LAW that says they need to replace/correct/fix that bad little batch now is there?)

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[SoCalDem]

1. The ONLY solution is

MORE voting PLACES...Smaller groups of people assigned to vote at each place and MORE workers to count votes..

Paper ballots ...totally distinct from the "proposition/local issues"

a sharpie pen

and lots of people hanging around afterward...to COUNT THE DAMNED BALLOTS..

a cell phone and CCTV camera to record the counting and to notify the central counting place of the totals..(notify press at the same time via webpage)..

Nobody leaves until the number of people given ballots matches the total number of ballots counted and votes tallied

[orleans]

2. damn! i love the way you think! n/t