{"id":2530,"date":"2006-03-09T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2006-06-15T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T22:48:33","slug":"fl-candidate-votes-for-self-sequoia-touch-screen-voting-machine-flips-vote-to-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"FL Candidate Votes for Self, Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machine Flips Vote to Opponent!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today’s St. Petersburg Times<\/i>…<\/a><\/p>\n

When Cook tried to vote for himself, the machine defaulted to a vote for Taylor. A precinct worker finally moved Cook to a different booth.<\/p>\n

Later in the day, Cook said he had other reports of voting machines malfunctioning in similar ways.<\/p><\/div>\n

The flipping machines used in the Pinellas County, FL election were paperless touch-screens made by Sequoia Voting Systems — the same paperless “Edge” touch-screen systems whose purchase and future use in New Mexico was recently banned in the state<\/a> in light of a lawsuit<\/a> where many voters complained of the same type of “vote flipping” on the machines during the 2004 Presidential Election.<\/p>\n

Those are also the same machines which lost more than 12,000 votes<\/a> in Bernalillo County, NM in 2002.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, this is Florida, after all. So, as Pinellas County, FL Supervisor of Elections communications director, Nancy Whitlock says, there’s nothing to worry about:<\/p>\n

No one else complained, so it is unlikely the problem affected many, if any, other votes, she said.<\/div>\n

We feel much better now. It was just “a glitch.”<\/p>\n

\n(Hat tip John Gideon! See today’s ‘Daily Voting News’<\/a> from John for much more, including fresh e-voting disasters in Texas and everywhere else!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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