{"id":2840,"date":"2006-05-16T19:55:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T23:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2007-09-08T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T23:40:27","slug":"e-voting-train-wreck-another-100-machines-fail-in-allegheny-county-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2840","title":{"rendered":"E-VOTING TRAIN WRECK: Another 100+ Machines Fail in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh)!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following on our earlier report today<\/a>, covering 100’s of electronic voting machines in Philadelphia which failed to start up this morning for Pennsylvania’s primary election, we now have a similar report from the other side of the state.<\/p>\n

100’s of machines in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, also failed to work correctly today. If we’re able to remember correctly (since the story doesn’t name any voting machine company names), Allegheny County finally settled on voting machines made by ES&S, after they abandoned hopes of going with Diebold when their machines were found to be hackable, and then later found machines from Sequoia Voting Systems — who they’d planned to use instead — were discovered to be similarly hackable.<\/p>\n

ES&S eventually won the prize, just weeks before today’s primary — we warned about going with a new system with so little time to prepare, but did they listen? — yet appear to have lost the day for PA voters, according to this report from Pittsburgh’s Post-Gazette<\/i>…<\/a><\/p>\n

The first Allegheny County election with electronic voting machines got off to a somewhat rocky start this morning, when more than 100 machines had problems. Surrounding counties reported almost identical problems. <\/p>\n

Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato today said 120 machines wouldn’t produce “zero-count” printouts to start the day confirming there were no votes registered in the machines. <\/p>\n

Mr. Onorato said the elections bureau got 400 calls to start the day. By 11 a.m., there were still more than 20 polling places with problems. <\/p>\n

There are more than 2,600 of the new machines spread over 1,314 precincts. <\/p>\n

Mr. Onorato also said nine machines had their screens cracked during transit to the polling places.
\n…
\nSurrounding counties also were reporting problems with the zero-count printouts. <\/p>\n

Larry Spahr said 20 or 25 of Washington County’s 185 precincts reported problems. Mr. Spahr is director of elections.<\/p><\/div>\n

More details on the failures in the Post-Gazette’s<\/i> story<\/a>. Amongst those details, apparently Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) was locked out of his polling place when an election worker failed to show up to open it this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on our earlier report today, covering 100’s of electronic voting machines in Philadelphia which failed to start up this morning for Pennsylvania’s primary election, we now have a similar report from the other side of the state. 100’s of machines in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, also failed to work correctly today. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,6,5,48,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-election-irregularities","category-ess","category-pennsylvania","category-republicans","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}