{"id":3797,"date":"2006-11-15T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2006-11-18T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T22:41:33","slug":"ess-software-counts-each-vote-three-times-in-williamson-county-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3797","title":{"rendered":"Votes Counted Three Times Each on ES&#038;S E-Voting Machines in Williamson County, TX!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/11\/15\/15wcelections.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ESS_Texas.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/11\/15\/15wcelections.html\">According to the <em>Austin American-Statesman<\/em> today<\/a> America&#8217;s largest Electronic Voting Machine Company, ES&#038;S, has failed again. This time just north of Austin, Texas&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>Voting problems in Williamson County<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Problems with software cause incorrect numbers, county says<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Williamson County elections officials are again having voting problems, and they&#8217;re blaming the computer software that they say has caused hiccups in the past. <\/p>\n<p>When final voting results were counted last week, county officials discovered that the actual number of votes cast was lower than the initial totals compiled after the Nov. 7 elections. <\/p>\n<p>Williamson County spokeswoman Connie Watson said that computer software counted each electronic vote three times, making the initial reported vote total about 6,500 more than the actual total.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As expected, the company, which has had similar disasters in scores of states across the country this year &#8212; including in Florida&#8217;s 13th Congressional district where officials are currently trying to figure out what to do about 18,000 votes that disappeared on ES&#038;S systems in a U.S. House race with just over 300 votes between the two leading candidates &#8212; blamed everyone but themselves&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Amanda Brown, a spokeswoman for Elections Systems &#038; Software, the company that made the software, said the company thinks that the problem was a human error, not the software. &#8220;It&#8217;s our belief right now it&#8217;s related to a procedural error in operating the software,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Austin American-Statesman today America&#8217;s largest Electronic Voting Machine Company, ES&#038;S, has failed again. This time just north of Austin, Texas&#8230; Voting problems in Williamson County Problems with software cause incorrect numbers, county says Williamson County elections officials are again having voting problems, and they&#8217;re blaming the computer software that they say has [&hellip;]<\/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":[76,6,5,47],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-election-irregularities","category-ess","category-texas","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","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=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}