What's this BS about the voting machines having to be stored in

[napi21]

temperature controlled rooms? As far as I know, they're laptops! I understand you wouldn't want to store them in some big old warehouse that had no heat or cooling, but I remember years ago when computers were mainframes and when they talked about temp controlled environment, they meant the room shouldn't go above 72 degrees! I worked with those old monsters, and they ran like sh*t when the air went off and the room quickly reached 85 or 90! Sometimes they just stopped!

What's wrong with just storing these voting machines in a safe, or some other locked area like a file cabinet in an office in the precinct somewhere?

[LA lady]

1. Laptops??

The ones we use sure aren't laptops! They are BIG. We just got them in July - Sequoia

[napi21]

2. I'm not familiar with those. The ones we have here in Ga. are

Diebold machines, and they appear to be nothing more than a laptop that is set on a stand that looks like a tall folding table.

[karlrschneider]

3. Unless they have drives in them (do they?) there shouldn't be any

reason to worry about temperature...unless the forecast is for -30C. :eyes:

[napi21]

6. Well that the excuse a lot of these pricincts are using.

They6 have to be stored in a temp controlled environment and they have no place within the precinct like that, so they can't keep them. They either send them back to the mfg.then to be returned for the next election. Apparently they don't have anyone or haven't asked anyone to be available tp accept them when they are returned, so they letthe poll volunteers take them home"in the A/C or heater environment.

It sounded like BS to me when I head it, and I just heard it again twice today!

[karlrschneider]

7. Kinda funny, the ATM I use sits in the hot sun in summer and covered

with snow in winter. It seems to work just fine.
:grr:

[notadmblnd]

4. I was thinking that they could be strored where the old ones were kept

or were those just a bunch of shoe boxes with a hole cut out on top?

[Ravy]

5. There is more...

They let the election workers have them the week before... so after the election until the week before the next one, they are all stored in some warehouse (presumably) someplace.

They just don't want to deliver them the morning of the elections.