Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
“The last-minute nature of the entire process presented by ES&S has eroded voter confidence, unnecessarily, and will make our election procedure suspect,” Kanawha County (WV) Commission President Kent Carper wrote. Among the news of problems in Indiana, Ohio, North Carolina, and Tennessee is the news from Pima County, Arizona where they have decided to cancel a $2M order with Diebold because of questions about the reliability of their machines. In Clark County Indiana we get this quote from Ken Fields of ES&S, “”For some reason, it’s not functioning,” Fields said.”We’re confident the votes are being tabulated correctly, but the reporting function” didn’t operate as the company wanted.” Ireland has apparently finally decided that e-voting is “dead in the water”. Two headlines in the same paper on two articles released at the same time: “Snafus plague new digital ballot system” and “Glitches mar Ohio’s first punch-card free election”. As of 5PM Pac. votes were still being tallied in Cuyahoga Co., OH….
AR: Train Wreck – New Machines Out For Most Early Voting LINK
IN: Allen County � Train Wreck – Wayne, Adams votes go AWOL as officials scramble for answers (MicroVote) LINK
IN: Boone County � Train Wreck – What should have been an early tally turned into a late night ordeal in the Boone County Clerk’s office Tuesday after a series of poll worker blunders slowed primary tabulations to a crawl. LINK
IN: Clark County � Train Wreck – Computers in Clark County were having trouble reading results brought in from voting machines. Results were being read to a woman who was manually typing them in. (ES&S) LINK
IN: Clark County � Train Wreck – Computer woes slow vote count (ES&S) LINK
IN: Clark County � Train Wreck – System failure leads to manual count of precincts (ES&S) LINK
IN: Grant County � Train Wreck – Election roundup: Tabulation error keeps office busy (MicroVote) LINK
IN: Hamilton County � Train Wreck – Printer problem delays voting results (MicroVote) LINK
IN: Jackson County � Train Wreck – Computer glitch delayed final tally until early today LINK
IN: Jackson County � Train Wreck – Problems with new voting machines slow election results LINK
IN: Lake County � Train Wreck – County results not expected until after midnight (MicroVote) LINK
IN: Parke County � Train Wreck – Problems plague polls in Parke County (ES&S) LINK
IN: Vigo County � Train Wreck – 25 percent of Vigo County voters cast ballots in primary LINK
MI: Barry County � Train Wreck – Glitch hits Barry County voting machines (Diebold) LINK
NC: Carteret County � Train Wreck – Republican ballot in Carteret has glitch LINK
OH: Train Wreck � A sampling of voting problems reported across Ohio LINK
OH: Train Wreck – Ohio Struggles to Fix Voting Problems LINK
OH: Train Wreck – Wednesday morning quarterback: Focus on voting machine problems LINK
OH: Train Wreck – Few problems with touch-screen voting in Franklin County (The title ignores the problems reported in other counties) (ES&S) LINK
OH: Cuyahoga and Hamilton County � Train Wreck – Vote counting still not done LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Investigation Of Election Day Problems Could Take Weeks LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – DIEBOLD DISASTER: Company Gets ‘F’ From Election Board Chairman as Machines Fail All Over Cuyahoga County, OH on Primary Day LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – DIEBOLD DISASTER: Cuyahoga County Still Counting as 70 Memory Cards Missing from 200 Precincts LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – First all-electronic election marred by problems LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Results delayed on problem-filled election day (Diebold) LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Tabulating machines fail in Cuyahoga County LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Confusion, delayed results mark first punch-card free election (Diebold) LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – UPDATE: Delay in reporting Stark- and state voting results (Diebold) LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Lack of three-pronged adaptors closes polling site for hours (Diebold) LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Officials: Voting Machines Not To Blame For Problems At Polls (Diebold) LINK
OH: Hamilton County � Train Wreck – Snafus plague new digital ballot system LINK
OH: Stark County � Train Wreck – Snafu delays Stark vote totals LINK
OH: Summit County � Train Wreck – Optical-scan grades high, director says LINK
TN: Knox County � Train Wreck – Glitch prevents Knox County results LINK
TN: Knox County � Train Wreck – Hitch lays down speed bump in already-slowed count LINK
TX: Tarrant County � Train Wreck – Corrected ballots available to affected voters (Hart) LINK
WV: Kanawha County � Train Wreck – Kanawha’s dry run of voting machines remains incomplete (ES&S) LINK
NAtional: Shays Brings HR 550 Co-Sponsorship to 185 LINK
NAtional: Speedy renewal of Voting Rights Act sought LINK
AR: Ark. drafts contingency plan for voting machine problems LINK
AZ: Pima County – Voting machines’ purchase postponed; reliability questioned LINK
AZ: Pima County – Supervisors postpone purchase of electronic voting machines LINK
CA: Calaveras County – No More Ballot Punching For Calaveras Voters LINK
CA: Riverside County – Group seeks volunteers to monitor election LINK
CA: Sacramento County – Sample Ballot Error Sent to Sacramento Voters, Registrar Says LINK
CO: Moffat County – New voting equipment deal signed LINK
IN: Allen County – Primary Elections in Allen County Go Pretty Smoothly LINK
IN: Marion County – Not perfect at the polls, but no meltdown either LINK
IN: Sullivan County – Election goes smoothly in Sullivan County LINK
IN: Vanderburgh County – Turnout low on first day of voting under new law LINK
IN: Vigo County � Election Board to investigate validity of hand-delivered ballots LINK
NC: New voting machines see few glitches in N.C. primary LINK
NC: Moore County – Turnout Mixed, New Equipment Worked Well LINK
OH: Summit County – Election scanners seem to be working; test will be final counts (ES&S) LINK
TX: Hidalgo County – Concerns Raised About Voting Problems in La Joya LINK
WV: Cabell County – Voting machines to be ready for Cabell primary LINK
IReland: Electronic voting “dead in the water” LINK
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“The last-minute nature of the entire process presented by ES&S has eroded voter confidence, unnecessarily, and will make our election procedure suspect,” Kanawha County (WV) Commission President Kent Carper wrote. Among the news of problems in Indiana, Ohio, North Carolina, and Tennessee is the news from Pima County, Arizona where they have decided to cancel a $2M order with Diebold because of questions about the reliability of their machines. In Clark County Indiana we get this quote from Ken Fields of ES&S, “”For some reason, it’s not functioning,” Fields said.”We’re confident the votes are being tabulated correctly, but the reporting function” didn’t operate as the company wanted.” Ireland has apparently finally decided that e-voting is “dead in the water”. Two headlines in the same paper on two articles released at the same time: “Snafus plague new digital ballot system” and “Glitches mar Ohio’s first punch-card free election”. As of 5PM Pac. votes were still being tallied in Cuyahoga Co., OH….
The title to this headline should be changed:
NC: Carteret County – Train Wreck – Republican ballot in Carteret has glitch LINK
It should read – Carteret County – poll workers hand out wrong paper ballots to 40 republican voters.
This was not due to a printing error, nor to the optical scanner malfunctioning.
It was simply the poll worker not paying attention and handing out the wrong ballot.
“The last-minute nature of the entire process presented by ES&S has eroded voter confidence, unnecessarily, and will make our election procedure suspect,”
unnecessarily? Oh my – ROFL
"We’re confident the votes are being tabulated correctly, but the reporting function" didn’t operate as the company wanted."
What – it didn’t switch the votes to Repugs? Too funny!
Stephen Colbert wrote this didn’t he!
No?
I could have sworn it was him!
I cant wait for 06/06/06
"We’re confident the votes are being tabulated correctly, but…."
Ahhhh shuddup.
We did everything right, it is the results that are wrong, not us.
That pattern of "reasoning" seems prevalent anywhere there is an electronic voting machine these daze.
Can somebody define the word, "glitch?"
Main Entry: glitch
Pronunciation: ‘glich
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps from Yiddish glitsh slippery place, from glitshn (zikh) to slide, glide; akin to Old High German glItan to glide — more at GLIDE
1 a : a usually minor malfunction [a glitch in a spacecraft’s fuel cell]; also : 2BUG 2 b : a minor problem that causes a temporary setback : SNAG
2 : a false or spurious electronic signal
I think "slippery place" applies well and #2 "a false or spurious electronic signal" says it all in a nutshell!
Main Entry: spu·ri·ous
Pronunciation: ‘spyur-E-&s
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin spurius false, from Latin, of illegitimate birth, from spurius, noun, bastard
1 : of illegitimate birth : BASTARD
2 : outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its genuine qualities : FALSE
3 a : of falsified or erroneously attributed origin : FORGED b : of a deceitful nature or quality
#3 done by #1!
Shannon #5
It is a term, in general, used by those who are not software engineers.
In general software engineers will tend to use the term "bug" when talking about defects in coding logic. Defects that cause or lead to malfunctions.
The Diebold software has been scrutinized by professional software engineers and was found to be primitive in various aspects, and to contain bugs that only the most naive of engineers would do.
Software designed and developed by novice software engineers appears to be the brains behind the bulk of the machines we discuss here.
Some professionals have stated, and I concur, that the code is so bad it must be deliberate.
These bugs or glitches can be used to take over the machine when it fails.
A very famous bug of that sort was made famous by the book "The Cockoo’s Egg" (link here).
This book is written so that non-programmers can read and understand it. It will rock your world to find out how a bug allowed a hacker to totally infest the defense establishment’s computers, including the NSA.
Check it out at the library or borrow a copy … it is a true story that will help you realize how very and utterly easy these machines are to hack.