Vote count marred by computer woes

[reprehensor]

http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/091021-1006-009.html

Lebanon -- Boone County officials are searching for an answer to the computer glitch that spewed out impossible numbers and interrupted an otherwise uneventful election process Tuesday.

"I about had a heart attack," County Clerk Lisa Garofolo said of the breakdown that came as an eager crowd watched computer-generated vote totals being projected onto a wall of the County Courthouse rotunda.

"I'm assuming the glitch was in the software."

A lengthy collaboration between the county's information technology director and advisers from the MicroVote software producer fixed the problem. But before that, computer readings of stored voting machine data showed far more votes than registered voters.

[kimchi]

1. I hope this wakes people up.

It is happening in different places all over the country.

Mistakes, or tampering, it doesn't matter-the machines cannot be trusted.

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Get use to that headline

for we will be seeing it over and over again. In this case the errors were correctable, but this will not be true in all (or even most) cases. This is why we need a voter verified auditable paper trail to assure we can do hand recounts when necessary.

[genius]

3. The DNC is stupid if they think they won't have to fight for a fair

election. They should be prepared to stand outside polling places with paper for people to write their choice on and ballot boxes so as to make sure the counts inside are accurate.