(Georgia)DeKalb precinct to stay open an extra hour(Touch screen problems)

[Robbien]

A DeKalb County precinct will be held open an extra hour tonight due to problems earlier today with electronic voting machines.

Poll workers had problems encoding voter access cards this morning at Allgood Elementary School in Stone Mountain. The problem was corrected within an hour. But elections officials asked a judge to keep the precinct open until 8 p.m. to make up for the lost time. Similar problems in south Georgia's Irwin County also led to a one-hour extension on voting.

Despite those problems — and other minor glitches reported throughout metro Atlanta and the state — voting was relatively smooth today, said Secretary of State Cathy Cox, the state's chief elections official. "Almost without exception, the only problems we heard today were human error," Cox said this afternoon.

Cox pushed the state's purchase of 23,000-plus electronic voting machines, which were used for the first time statewide in fall of 2002.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/election/0704georgia/21dekprecinct.html?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Anybody got ideas on how to spot fraud in GA this time?

I imagine Bev & Co. are in position.

[woldnewton]

2. Well, this is why I sounded an alarm earlier...

But depending on the results with Cynthia, we may see the fraud restricted solely to the general election... but I don't think any
Re-THUG can claim to get this seat without all hell breaking loose. GA's 4th district is overwhelmingly leaning towards Cynthia to take it back.

[Toucano]

3. A whole hour?

Wow! How enfranchised can you get?

I love this part:

"...the only problems we heard today were human error," Cox said this afternoon.

As if the fact that the error is human makes the error okay. LOL!