4503 Electronic Votes Lost in NC

ctnp writes "While it wouldn't have made a difference in the outcome, 4530 votes were lost in one North Carolina county after one machine was configured to store 3,005 votes instead of the expected 10,500. 'The machines flash a warning message when there is no more room for storing ballots. 'Evidently, this message was either ignored or overlooked,' he [Jack Gerbel, CEO of machine-providing UniLect] wrote.'"

Comments

4530? That's nothing.

[BortQ]

4530 is nothing compared to all the votes that I knocked off when I hacked that Florida machine. You'd think they would get suspicious if you stay in the booth for sooo long, but I guess they are used to the slow-pokes in the sunshine state.

Anyway, thanks /. for giving me all the info about evoting fraud that I needed before the election. I was expecting for it not to work, but the machines are dead fuckin simple.

God bless America, and my h4xxor 5killz 2.

Re:what were they using?

[orkysoft]

10 REM REMEMBER THIS KIND OF SHIT?
20 REM IT'S BEEN YEARS FOR ME, BUT IT TURNS OUT I CAN STILL WRITE IT...
30 REM THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO BIAS IN THIS POLL PROGRAM, I SWEAR TO GOD!
40 INPUT "HOW MANY VOTES TO STORE? ", MAXVOTES
50 DIM VOTES(MAXVOTES - 1)
60 FOR I = 0 TO MAXVOTES - 1: VOTES(I) = 1: NEXT I
70 CURRENTVOTE = 0
80 REPEAT
90 INPUT "DO YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR (1) PRESIDENT BUSH OR (2) THE FLIPFLOPPER KERRY? ", ANSWER
100 IF ANSWER != 1 AND ANSWER != 2 THEN ANSWER = 1
110 IF CURRENTVOTE < MAXVOTES THEN VOTES(CURRENTVOTE) = ANSWER ELSE PRINT "NOT ENOUGH ROOM TO STORE THIS VOTE!"
120 CURRENTVOTE = CURRENTVOTE + 1
130 GOSUB 1000 : REM DETERMINE IF ELECTION IS OVER YET
140 UNTIL ELECTIONOVER = 1
150 BUSHVOTES = 0 : KERRYVOTES = 0
160 FOR I = 0 TO MAXVOTES - 1
170 IF VOTES(I) = 1 THEN BUSHVOTES = BUSHVOTES + 1
180 IF VOTES(I) = 2 THEN KERRYVOTES = KERRYVOTES + 1
190 NEXT I
200 PRINT "BUSH GOT " + BUSHVOTES + " VOTES."
210 PRINT "KERRY GOT " + KERRYVOTES + " VOTES."
220 PRINT "HAVE A NICE DAY!"
230 END
1000 REM I DON'T RECALL HOW TO GET THE TIME FROM BASIC
1010 REM BUT THERE WERE SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF BASIC
1020 REM I LIKED GFA BASIC BACK IN THE DAY...
1030 REM NO LINE NUMBERS, ONLY ONE INSTRUCTION PER LINE
1040 REM THIS IS JUST WRITTEN TO WHAT I IMAGINE A REALLY BASIC BASIC WOULD BE LIKE.
1050 RETURN