BREAKING: Officials Find, Fix MAJOR Glitch in NM Voting Machine

[Perky]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Vote-Count-Glitch.html


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 7, 2008
Filed at 5:53 a.m. ET

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A glitch that would have kept votes from being counted in the presidential and other top-of-the-ticket races was discovered during a pre-election check of a voting machine in Santa Fe County, officials said.

The error was found Friday and corrected the same day, said Denise Lamb, who heads the elections bureau in the county clerk's office.

The problem in the coding of the machine's memory card would have prevented the tabulating machine from counting the votes in the presidential, U.S. Senate and 3rd District congressional races when Democrats or Republicans marked their ballots indicating they wanted to vote a straight ticket.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Correction: They found and fixed the "glitch" they were meant to find

Having found it, state officials will not bother looking for the code that is meant to steal the election.

[KeepItReal]

2. The "glitch" only f*cks up PART of the tabulation. How convenient.

If you are telling me this software cannot simply add numbers to get a total correctly, the election software/hardware vendor should not be in business.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Weird, since addition is one of the easiest and simplest codes to write.

[mopinko]

4. weird since that is really ALL a computer can do.

the rest is just fancier versions of adding.

[woodsprite]

5. Isn't this at least the 2nd state to have that error? Not counting straight party votes. n/t

[Fly by night]

6. Yes, I believe it was found in North Carolina also.

[KingFlorez]

7. And somewhere, McCain is probably saying "Damn, there's another strategy down the drain"

I'm sure this was no error

[Heather MC]

8. two Words, PAPER BALLOT

if possible in your state
Screw those damn machines