E-Voting - Memory Cards Fail - During Ohio Testing!

[RedOnce]

Memory cards fail during Summit testing ahead of May elections

Batteries trouble voting system

Posted on Sat, Mar. 11, 2006
Beacon Journal - Lisa A. Abraham

Dead batteries -- that's what Election Systems & Software officials are saying is to blame for the failure of dozens of computer memory cards in Summit County's new optical scan voting system.

``What we're dealing with is a portion of one batch of cards sent out in recent weeks have an issue with low batteries,'' ES&S spokeswoman Ellen Bogard said Friday...Testing of the county's new voting system began Monday, when the memory cards failed to work as often as 30 percent of the time.

County residents are expected to begin voting in the May 2 primary with a new optical scan system, which will replace punch-card voting.

On edit - link added: http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14074421.htm

[drm604]

1. K&R

:kick:

[On Par]

2. Is There a Link ?

[MetaTrope]

3. Since when do memory cards have batteries?

:shrug:

[RedOnce]

4. I don't know but, it sure seems like a bad design since batteries do fail.

[Richard Steele]

7. Exactly. What's next, bad vacuum tubes in the tabulators? nm

[flordehinojos]

5. I WANT PAPER AND PENCIL, FILL-IN-THE-BUBBLE, OR, PUT AN "x' NEXT TO YOUR

GUY'S NAME, ballots. I WANT TO DROP THE BALLOT IN THE BOX. I WANT THE PEOPLE OF BOTH PARTIES TO OPEN THE BOX. AND I WANT MY VOTE TO BE COUNTED--FORTHRIGHTLY. AND, IF THERE IS ANY QUESTION ABOUT WHO WON, I WANT MY "X" MARKED BALLOT, OR BUBBLE-FILLED-IN BALLOT, to be counted and recounted again and again, and again, until it is clear as to WHO REALLY GOT THE VOTES!

[RedOnce]

6. Now, there's an idea!

[rucky]

8. Why do you hate America? n/t

[flordehinojos]

9. are you asking me the question? are you asking it of GWB, or are you

thinking that is what GWB would ask anyone who demands to have honest, fair, and accountable elections?

I would answer him--and you--and anyone else who might ask, it seems that I AM THE ONE WHO LOVES AMERICA, OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR DEMOCRACY.

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[rucky]

11. sorry, forgot the...

:sarcasm:

[flordehinojos]

12. i kind of had an incling that was what you were up to when i saw your

"George WAR Bush" drawing. I just wasn't sure ...

:)

[mom cat]

10. Now that is one technology that I can support.

[flordehinojos]

13. the more of us who do .and let our elected officials know that we do the

more we might have a chance of getting it. for my part, i've written my county commissioners stating just that.

:D

[mom cat]

15. Good for you!

[drduffy]

14. Somebody probably mentioned this but

why is an optical scan any better than pure touchscreen? There is still the little matter of interpreting the bar code (on the tape version) and the optical scanning software itself. Either or both can introduce error and/or purposeful fraud. Who is going to be checking that stuff.? That software. It would be as easy to jimmy that in these cases as it would be in the ones already noted in the past.

[flordehinojos]

16. exactly and to the point!

so why don't we all get together--one voice--and ask for paper and pencil ballots!

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