Rokita won handily statewide... :(
Rokita, Todd (Republican) 670,829
Pearson, Joe (Democratic) 609,171
Here in Monroe County Pearson won BIG!!
Todd Rokita (R) 13539
Joe Pearson (D) 18059
You should definitely recount Marion -- there was something seriously screwy going on with your iVotronic and Opscan systems. Marion Clerk Sadler said that the reason why voters could not run their ballots through the opscan readers at the polls early yesterday was because the pollworkers had problems with the complex iVotronic machines. The two systems should have been working independently. I smell a rat.
The Marion County (Indianapolis) Clerk is saying that the machine problems earlier today were due to the pollworkers not understanding how to start the ES&S iVotronics (touch screen voting machines purchased so that the disabled could vote privately and independently) -- and that the iVotronic DREs affect the ballot scanner...
"She describes the machines as complicated and said workers had trouble turning them on. Those machines also affect the ballot scanner, so many ballots were not immediately counted. Problems affected about 220 of the 525 polling locations around Marion County and technicians were sent to those affected locations."
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5644563&nav=menu35_1It does not make sense to me that the DREs system should affect the optical scanner, so I contacted a technie friend and he replied:
No, it makes no sense at all.
The opscan/iVotronic arrangement is a "blended" system. Essentially it is 2 voting systems running in parallel. One system is the optical scanner (M100...). The other is the accessibility add-on (iVotronic...). The 2 systems though are uncoupled. One does not affect the other....
The ballot definition though on both the scanner and the iVotronic could be defective as both are created by the centalized (County) server runing the UNITY ballot setup application.
My speculation on LIMIT info is the defect is in the UNITY software which "setup" both the iVotronic and the M100 scanners. I think the program likely at fault is the Hardware Program Manager. The other option is ES&S did the botched setup back in Nebraska as not every county spend the $60K to buy the Hardware Program Manager portion of the UNITY suite.