{"id":8180,"date":"2010-11-05T07:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8180"},"modified":"2010-11-05T20:33:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T03:33:44","slug":"all-diebold-touch-screen-voting-systems-fail-on-election-day-across-utah-county-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8180","title":{"rendered":"All Diebold Touch-screen Voting Systems Fail on Election Day at 110 Polls Across Utah County, UT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s a good thing last Tuesday wasn’t a Presidential<\/i> Election with really huge<\/i> crowds of voters in Utah County, UT. As polls opened at 7am, digitally encoded cards used by voters to begin the voting process on the state’s oft-failed, easily-manipulated<\/a>, 100% unverifiable<\/a> Diebold AccuVote touch-screen voting systems didn’t work at all 110 polling locations across the county. A programming error was blamed.<\/p>\n

Voters were forced to wait in line for up to an hour while technicians struggled to figure out how to correct the failure. Many voters simply gave up, walking away and becoming disenfranchised in the bargain when they couldn’t hang around to wait that long to vote on a work day. As usual, the wide-spread failure (county-wide, in this case) was marginalized by the media as little more than a “glitch”<\/a>. Of course, had the county used paper ballots, nobody would have been disenfranchised, or had to wait on line for an hour to cast their vote. Voters across the entire state are now forced to vote on the Diebold touch-screen systems on Election Day.<\/p>\n

Separately, and to make matters worse, the Vote.Utah.gov<\/a> website for looking up voter polling locations crashed, multiple times, throughout the day. Here’s Tuesday’s report on those “glitches” from KSL TV 5:<\/p>\n

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It was also in Utah County were, as we reported a week before Election Day<\/a>, the easily-manipulated Diebold voting machines had been found left unattended in the lobby of an office building.<\/p>\n

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