E-Voting Glitch Alters Election Outcome

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Posted by michael on Tuesday November 16, 2004 @03:16PM from the you-never-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a local news source, 'A recently found computer glitch in the voting machines in Franklin County, Indiana has given a Democrat enough votes to bump a Republican from victory in a County Commissioner's race.' Any ideas on how we can check for similar problems in other close elections?"

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How to correct glitches (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 16, 2004 @03:20PM (#10833645)

hack diebold:

while (republican == winner) do
demvotes := demvotes + 1
repeat until (lawsuits stop OR
democrat(VictoryStatus) == true

Apply routine to all voting machines to achieve desired results.

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Programmers mantra (Score:3, Funny)

by MarkGriz ( 520778 ) writes: on Tuesday November 16, 2004 @03:45PM (#10834047)

The glitch in the machines recorded straight Democratic Party votes for Libertarians.

That's not a bug... it's a feature.

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I'm confused (Score:2, Funny)

by blahlemon ( 638963 ) writes: on Tuesday November 16, 2004 @04:32PM (#10834719)

What is a "straight-democratic party vote"?

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Details are easily Googled (Score:3, Funny)

by yelvington ( 8169 ) writes: on Tuesday November 16, 2004 @05:18PM (#10835431) Homepage

A simple search of Google News reveals it was a optical scanner, not a Diebold touchscreen system. Of course, if it had been a Diebold system, we wouldn't have this problem. No one would know the results were screwed, and no recounting would be possible.

URL:http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl e? AID=/20041116/NEWS01/411160333/1008

URL:http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/194039-44 21 -098.html

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Re:Before everyone screams go back to paper... (Score:3, Funny)

by TykeClone ( 668449 ) * writes: <TykeClone@gmail.com> on Tuesday November 16, 2004 @05:55PM (#10835901) Homepage Journal

In Iowa we have their parents.

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Re:Its been said before... (Score:2, Funny)

by schmink182 ( 540768 ) writes: <schmink182 AT yahoo DOT com> on Tuesday November 16, 2004 @08:48PM (#10837669) Homepage

What we need is some form of write only media...
That's all well and good, but what if we actually want to read the election results?

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E-Voting Glitch Alters Election Outcome

How to correct glitches (Score:3, Funny)

Programmers mantra (Score:3, Funny)

I'm confused (Score:2, Funny)

Details are easily Googled (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Before everyone screams go back to paper... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Its been said before... (Score:2, Funny)

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