Computer glitch delays routine voter machine test (Palm Beach FL)

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Computer glitch delays routine voter machine test

By Connie Piloto

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

WEST PALM BEACH — A routine test of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machines was canceled Tuesday because the computer network at the elections office malfunctioned hours before the public exercise.

Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore said the "computer crash" won't affect the function of the electronic touch-screen voting machines during the upcoming Nov. 2 presidential election.

"It has nothing to do with the tabulation equipment," LePore said Tuesday.

The test requires feeding simulated voter data from a computer to the actual voting machine. The information is tabulated by a computer and checked to ensure it matches a predetermined outcome.

During the test, elections employees also manually vote for specified candidates on each machine being tested.

The "logic and accuracy" test was rescheduled for 10 a.m. Friday.

"This is very troublesome, that less than three weeks away from a presidential election we have problems with these machines," said Lale Mamaux, spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, a critic of electronic voting who masterminded a campaign to oust LePore. "Let's hope that on Friday, she's able to run the test."
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2004/10/13/s1c_votelogic_1013.html

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