Re-Calibrate. I have Programmed and Designed computers applications since the Early 80’s. You don’t Calibrate computers.
Push button 1 for Obama and Button 2 for Romney.
Button 1 updates the counters for Obama and button 2 updates the counters for Romney it is not magic.
It is either a lack of controls in application development or deliberate. Someone should be fired.
Anything else is pure BS.
Mittens needs to win FL, NC, VA, and OH by at least 5%. If it is delibrate then they dont dare shave off more than X%. My guess that for those 4 states the Dems would be comfortable shaving off around 2%. Anymore than that would be catchable.
Example.
County X total votes cast 200. And lets say that exactly 100 pushed the button for Obama and 100 pushed the button for Romney. Now add in the Deliberate “Fix”.
end result Obammy get 102 100 + 2 votes stolen. Romney gets 98 votes. Obammy wins that county even though the votes should have been split 100/100.
Now the killer it takes 15 minutes to add in the fix but could take hours to “FIND”, Even if your looking at the actual coding.
I believe it has to do with the architecture of the software, which is likely a screen-segment recognition architecture. The actual ballot layout (the images on the screen) are separated from the counting layer, so that the two layers have to be ‘aligned’ for them to work together correctly. This allows the base counting program to be reused year to year, with tweaks to fit the new layout of the screen.
It also is a huge area for shenanigans, as each pairing of the ballot layout and counting layers must be aligned for each machine to work properly.
What is convenient for a programmer isn’t always the best architecture for the system at hand.