Reply #53: Boone County, IN 2003 seems to have been a different scenario

[OnTheOtherHand]

I assume you are referring to this: http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/031113votingglitch/

You may know better than I, but my interpretation of that story is that it probably affected the candidates' running totals as well as the total ballots cast. Obviously, candidate totals matter.

I don't know whether there were any reports on the Cuya BOE web site that had incorrect candidate totals, but based on the DU thread I linked to earlier, I don't think the overall totals were affected.

"Let's say in one county there are 10,000 registered voters but when the votes are cast there are actually 23,000 votes. You're saying that those extra 13,000 votes are 'irrelevant'? I mean even without knowing who voted for whom, doesn't it make you suspicious of something?"

Suspicious, sure, but my suspicions are omnidirectional. Until and unless someone rebuts posts 84 and 87 in the DU thread I linked to in #3 above, I think this issue has been covered.

(Whoops, I will say a bit more later, but I have to run.)