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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...
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.
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;
}