Slashdot: San Diego miscounted 3000 absentee ballots

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a yet another sad example of why just casting your ballots on  
paper isn't enough, note that it was only during a post-election review  
that the problems were found. All the more reason to be able to have  
verification when the ballots are being counted, not just during  
pre-election testing of equipment, and of course, yet another reason to  
reject the machines and their manufacturer's continued false claims of  
the quality of their systems altogether. I wonder if this is the same  
system that we used in Boulder County in November, or worse, an  
"improved" version of that system:


"An article in today's San Diego Union Tribune reveals nearly  3000  
absentee ballots in the San Diego primary one month ago were  
miscounted. 'The miscounts occurred because multiple scanners  
simultaneously fed the absentee ballot data into the computer  
tabulation system. The large number of ballots and candidates on them  
overwhelmed the system. Diebold spokesman David Bear said the company  
has provided a software fix to the county for the new problem.' The  
irregularities were found in a routine post-election review."


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