Hand count will slow West Allis vote tally

[MindMover]

Source: Jsonline

The failure of a voting machine component at one West Allis ward will likely mean more than 1,000 ballots cast in that ward will have to be hand counted, West Allis City Administrator Paul Zielher said late Tuesday afternoon.

"We're still trying to trouble shoot to see if there's any way we can fix this" part, Zielher said. However, he said local election officials had been struggling for several hours without success.

"If worse comes to worst we'll do a hand count, which will obviously take a long time and delay our final numbers," Zielher said. The problem part is called a PROM pack, an acronym that stands for "programmable read-only memory cartridge."

The count would be done after the polls close at the polling place with the defective machine, the Village at Manor Park at 3023 S. 84th St.. The votes are from West Allis' Ward 19.

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[freshwest]

1. Yes, I'm pretty sure His Wankership won't concede defeat today, no matter what.

This may take some days to announce. In my state, the election is not over on election day, either, as most votes are by mail and only require being stamped by the post office on that last day, not arriving at the place they are tallied.

[HereSince1628]

5. It's true here too, unitl the canvasses of the counties are complete it's just unofficial.

[OnlinePoker]

2. Good opportunity to check the validity of the machines

Count it by hand and then when the machine is fixed, run the ballots through to see how accurate the count is. In Canada, all our federal elections are counted by hand and we get it done in one night. I don't know what the issue is as long as you have representatives from all the parties there to monitor the count.

[HereSince1628]

3. It's the black heart of the black box

the "programmable read-only memory cartridge."

If that doesn't bring out the tin-foil nothing will.

[Scuba]

4. Good.

[Woody Woodpecker]

6. For those who doesn't live in Wisconsin

What part of Wisconsin is this?

And who are their U.S. Representative for that district?

[snacker]

7. Milwaukee suburb

[eowyn_of_rohan]

8. hooray! the more e-voting machine breakdowns the better -

Hand Counted Paper Ballots are the only way!