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Diebold Fails Again in San Diego
ptudor writes "An article in today's San Diego Union Tribune reveals nearly 3000 absentee ballots in the San Diego primary one month ago were miscounted. 'The miscounts occurred because multiple scanners simultaneously fed the absentee ballot data into the computer tabulation system. The large number of ballots and candidates on them overwhelmed the system. Diebold spokesman David Bear said the company has provided a software fix to the county for the new problem.' The irregularities were found in a routine post-election review." You can also read more about the problems on election day.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
They really ARE using Microsoft Access ;)
Let's take a vote on who pays for all these mishaps, the taxpayers or the company!... no, wait...
... if Diebold and Cisco are owned by the same parent company!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
You mean write a patch for the President? Aren't you already using Mr Bush 2.0 or something :)
But they don't always do it well (164 %)
flossie
Write now. Defend liberty
"The irregularities were found in a routine post-election review."
Oh, so that's what they're calling it...
if ( voter != white )
discard(vote);
Jon Stewart: "But these things can't be that insecure..."
Some security researcher: "We broke into the board of elections and completely changed the result, erasing all of our traces and got back out"
Stewart: "...um, but sure, you give a guy a day and..."
S.S.R.: "We did it in 5 minutes."
[Paraphrased, but the idea is here... Also, it's possible that the last statement by the SSR was not referring to the entire operation; the Daily Show appearso to have a habit of making deceptive cuts. But who knows...]
I think it is more like .55. A back peddle revision to compensate for (unusable)bad code in the latest release.
Bugs with simptons like sneezing cause nunmerous unintended effects like wars and mass unemployment neccesitated this fallback.
Actually I'm a strong supporter of bush, but this was too easy to pass up.
This whole administration has been in public beta since day one...
When a consultant I reviewed their product suite as well as other vendors such as Votec. They use MS SQL Server and Visual Basic. How funny. I knew their products would fail. Their off the record breagging involved hyping their M$ team and saying they got some of the best minds in the MCSE market!!!! As well they felt my ideas with using Transaction servers with their product suite for verification was a bit a farfetched. Uh huh!! Anyways - it is funny. Cheers
Read the last paragraph on that article you linked to. I ask you, Slashdotters, is there *not* a great election conspiracy afoot? :-)
May we never see th
sure they could. As the enter they overhear someone talking about those asshats (whom they did not vote for), and thus put the hats on their ass. So then we end up with crappy officials. Imagine what that would be like ... oh, wait
The Indian call centers couldn't understand the CA valley accent.
contact John Stossel. He loves this kind of thing. I think it gives him wood.
Here it is, they better take it before I GPL it.
while (ballots > 0) {
if (vote == republican)
republicanCount++;
else if (vote == democrat)
democratCount++
else
cout "Threw his vote away" endl;
}
Little David was in his 5th grade class when the teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up --fireman, policeman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, etc.
David was being uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him about his father.
"My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes, if the offer's really good, he'll go out to the alley with some guy and make love with him for money."
The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly sent the other children to work on some exercises and took little David aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?"
"No," said David, "He works for the BUSH campaign, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."