Monday, November 01, 2004
13,000 Ballots Rushed From Voting Site, Must Be Recounted
About 13,000 ballots were removed from an early-voting site in Daytona Beach, Fla., Monday and rushed to a secure vault in Deland after an optical scan machine failed, according to Local 6 News.
Local 6 News has learned that a memory card, on the machine failed and all 13,000 votes must be recounted.
A computer error is to blame for the failure of the memory card which records the voting data, Local 6 News reported.
Kos:
Note, this isn't a partisan issue. If a single machine can potentially swallow 13,000 votes, it casts the whole electoral process into uncertainty. What if that memory card is somehow corrupted? Or is accidentally damaged?
That this is an issue is beyond ridiculous.
And, what happens when the memory cards on the touch screen machines start failing? Houston, we have a problem...
Posted at 08:07 pm by blog swarm
