Electronic Voting Machines Cause "Chaos" (again)
Nov 7, 2006 17:30:53 GMT -5
Post by MC Habber on Nov 7, 2006 17:30:53 GMT -5
(We discussed voting machines 2 years ago here)
From NetworkWorld:
From NetworkWorld:
You can count on reading these stories all day today, but here is the first batch of reports on how the electronic voting machines are faring … with a balky Web site thrown in for variety.
Quote of the day: “We got five machines — one of them's got to work," said Willette Scullank, a trouble shooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.”
Quote of the day: “We got five machines — one of them's got to work," said Willette Scullank, a trouble shooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.”
In Denver, you just don’t want to be an IT professional involved in running this election: From the Denver Post: “Democratic party leaders are planning to seek a two-hour extension for voting in Denver, due to massive computer problems which have created long lines, and kept many from casting their vote. Party spokesman Brian Mason said a motion is being prepared, in response to ‘the huge problems in Denver this morning.’ ”
Maybe there are reports out there of these screw-ups benefiting Democratic candidates at the expense of their Republican opponents, but I just don’t come across them. From TPM Café: “My wife just came home from voting here in Webster Groves MO. She used the electronic touch-screen voting system. . . She touched Claire McCaskill's picture and the machine recorded a vote for Jim Talent. She then called one of the people running the polling center who helped her correct the problem. My wife then had to call the person over another time after it recorded her vote a Republican again. In her frustration she asked the person who was responsible for the design of this system. The polling person leaned in very close to my wife and whispered, 'We're f----d.' "
Maybe there are reports out there of these screw-ups benefiting Democratic candidates at the expense of their Republican opponents, but I just don’t come across them. From TPM Café: “My wife just came home from voting here in Webster Groves MO. She used the electronic touch-screen voting system. . . She touched Claire McCaskill's picture and the machine recorded a vote for Jim Talent. She then called one of the people running the polling center who helped her correct the problem. My wife then had to call the person over another time after it recorded her vote a Republican again. In her frustration she asked the person who was responsible for the design of this system. The polling person leaned in very close to my wife and whispered, 'We're f----d.' "
From the AP: “WASHINGTON — Voting machines began wreaking havoc the minute the polls opened Tuesday, delaying voters in dozens of Indiana and Ohio precincts and leaving some in Florida with little choice but turn to paper ballots instead.”
Update from NBC in Columbus, Ohio: Even efforts to address the problem are causing problems … “A flood of election-related calls knocked out the phone system serving Franklin County offices on Tuesday morning. County Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said the phone lines were overwhelmed by voters wondering where to vote and poll workers needing help with electronic voting machine
Can’t call this one a “glitch:” From WMC TV in Memphis comes news of a major snafu where the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has already filed a challenge: With Tennessee voters going to the polls, Harold Ford Jr. claimed this morning that polling locations in Memphis and in Jackson shut down because their voting machines weren't working. 'They told all the polling workers to go home and the election officials to go home without giving any real guidance to voters. We've already leveled one (challenge) on behalf of voters who have been told they'd have to wait until later today to vote,' Ford said."