E-Voting Glitch Alters Election Outcome 139
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?"
Horrible article wording (Score:3, Informative)
"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.
The glitch in the machines recorded straight Democratic Party votes for Libertarians.
The votes were re-counted last night, by hand.
The company who made the voting machine is also checking into programming of it's equipment in nine other Indiana counties. "
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Doesn't this sound contradictory to everyone? The machine accidentally counted straight democratic ticket votes as libertarian while accidentally giving the democrat enough votes to beat the a republican?
I realize what it says is that after correcting the glitch the democrat gets enough votes to beat the republican who was previously determined to be the winner, but man that was horrible wording.
Dig even further... Diebold is the parent company (Score:3, Informative)
We need non profit & organized voting standards. If corporate america can stand behind ISO standards why can't the federal government do the same?
If states require the rights to decide individually the votes (and laws) they cast for federal offices i'm not sure we can ever have a trustworthy system in the foreseeable.
I also believe we should streamline voting and make sure the right is protected and if people vote illegally it is punished for the crime it is. Partisan vote police shouldn't be allowed.
A more detailed story about this issue (Score:4, Informative)