Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes

longacre writes in with the results of a report on voting machines that malfunctioned in NY during the 2010 mid-term elections. "Tests of a number of electronic voting machines that recorded shockingly high numbers of extra votes in the 2010 election show that overheating may have caused upwards of 30 percent of votes in some South Bronx voting precincts to go uncounted. WNYC first reported on the issue in December 2011, when it was found that tens of thousands of votes in the 2010 elections went uncounted because electronic voting machines counted more than one vote in a race. A review by the state Board of Election and the electronic voting machines’ manufacturer ES&S found that these 'over votes,' as they’re called, were due to a machine error. In the report issued by ES&S, when the machine used in the South Bronx overheated, ballots run during a test began coming back with errors."

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John Connor

[cloudmaster]

I presume that the vote was cast for Skynet, or at least against some relative of John Connor?

Re:John Connor

[Sparticus789]

Nope, Bender. He already tried to win the DC School Board elections. But now we know he started in the Bronx!

Re:Scrap them all

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet USSA voting machine votes for you.