2 of 3 Tests of New Ballot Scanners Fail (Cuyahoga County OH)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Newsnet5

2 Of 3 Tests Of New Ballot Scanners Fail

UPDATED: 6:19 pm EST February 29, 2008

CLEVELAND -- The third time was the charm for pretest of the new optical ballot scanners at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

Chief Investigator Duane Pohlman reported that the board ran two tests of the scanners on Friday, and during both tests, the computer repeatedly showed an error message. However, a third test ran successfully.

The Board of Elections said previous tests of the scanners were successful, and officials do not know why the scanners did not initially read the ballots.

Pohlman reported that the BOE is looking into possibly having a batch of bad disks. Friday's tests were public pretests that are required by law.

Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/15453424/detail.html

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1. kick

[newburgh]

2. So they waited until they got the result they wanted.

Guess the first two don't count. That they "don't know what happened" the first two times is enough evidence to throw these machines in the garbage.

[Support the ACLU]

3. Why am I not surprised?

[Trillo]

4. Look at the bright side!

About 1/3 of the population gets their vote counted!

[TheMadMonk]

5. I think we can guess which third. They better hope that 19%...

... doesn't fall below fifteen.

[ohio2007]

6. the board is setting themselves up to find a scapegoat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCfVFxRsKQc

soon they just say people are to dumb to vote correctly.