I don't understand why these things break down? Are they not tested beforehand?
User error? Laziness? Starbucks was slow? Dem election judge knows that R voters vote early?
I wonder if someone tampered with them and they have some sort of a fail-safe device that like a pinball machine says "Tilt!"
i THINK THEY NEED TO BE PLUGGED INTO A SOURCE OF RELIABLE POWER <\CAPS>.
I don't understand why these things break down? Are they not tested beforehand?I suppose every other district has some liberal kid punk who downloaded the Diebold sources from the internet and tried to upload their own “improved” firmware…
If only those potheads weren't so crappy coders ;-)
"...Election judges and technical staff reported that many of these units froze when the voter pressed the Cast Ballot button. This leads to great confusion for judges and voters. The voter leaves the polling place with little or no confidence that their vote was counted. In many cases, the election judges are unable to provide substantial confirmation that the vote was, in fact, counted...
...You’d be hard pressed to pick a worse time for a voting machine to crash. The voter has made his selections, confirmed them on the ballot review screen, and now wants them to be recorded. When the Cast Vote button is pressed, the machine reads the intended votes out of its temporary RAM memory and copies them into the official ballot record file, which lives in the machine’s flash memory...
...The kind of design mistake Diebold made — timing errors in the use of RAM chips — crops up in other ... systems, so we know what kinds of problems it tends to cause. Sometimes it will cause system crashes, but sometimes it will cause data to be corrupted when it gets copied from one place to another. Which is particularly worrisome because the Diebold flaw tends to show up just at the time when the vote is copied into the official record..."