North Carolina May Redo State Election

goombah99 writes "The North Carolina Observer reports that due to failure of computerized voting system to properly record votes after its memory cards filled North Carolina may have to redo the November 2 statewide election. They believe 4400 votes were lost and from this have decided that only the State Ag commissioner race must be re-run. Still it's going to cost them a lot, indeed its going to cost them about the same price as 1000 new voting machines (3 million dollars) , or about $750 for every lost vote. Guess they wont be able to afford a paper trail system now."

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Re:If I were North Carolina

[goombah99]

I have read elsehwere the company makes two models a 3016 vote model and a 10,000 vote model. The county bought the cheaper ones. Thus presumbably they cant sue because they were aware of the different machine types and since they had the option to contact for more capacity. On the other hand they could sue for the sloppy inadequate warning system, but it might be hard to win. My Isuzu does not have a sign saying it may lose control if I drove it 120 miles per hour but it probably would.