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Yeah lord knows computers never gliches dumb .
Give it up already, you just look more and more pathetic. As someone who believed so much in Kerry you sure could learn a lesson or two from him about losing with class.
Associated Press
OhioCOLUMBUS, Ohio - A computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct.
Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Bush received 365 votes there. The other 13 voters who cast ballots either voted for other candidates or did not vote for president.
Damschroder said he received some calls Thursday from people who saw the error when reading the list of poll results on the election board's Web site.
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You see if Kerry had challenged the election, he could have forced this issue to the front page of newspapers!!! Now it will be buried along with the countless OTHER stories of colossal ups by electronic voting machines.
As a programmer, I can tell you this is NOT an error. It is 100% INTENTIONAL!!! The logic to present a ballot and record choices is pretty simple stuff. The fact that Diebold has ed it up so badly can only be attributed to malfeasance!!!!!
Yeah lord knows computers never gliches dumb .
Give it up already, you just look more and more pathetic. As someone who believed so much in Kerry you sure could learn a lesson or two from him about losing with class.
As a programmer, I know that software never glitches, that is, unless there exists some kind of weakness in the hard-ware using the software. A investigation should be lauched imediately.
As a programmer, I know that when you are talking about data transfers, glitches can happen.
I guess you're saying all computers that have Windows conflicts have inherent hardware problems, huh?
the 2 battleground states both used dieblold machines and were both won by bush handily
maybe you should buy new machines for them so you can be sure they do not glitch
are the machines windows based or linux?
Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes
2 hours, 11 minutes ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush (news - web sites) 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.
Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch.
State and county election officials did not immediately respond to requests by The Associated Press for more details about the voting system and its vendor, and whether the error, if repeated elsewhere in Ohio, could have affected the outcome.
Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after acknowledging that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result.
The Secretary of State's Office said Friday it could not revise Bush's total until the county reported the error.
The Ohio glitch is among a handful of computer troubles that have emerged since Tuesday's elections.
In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes were lost because officials mistakenly believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. And in San Francisco, a malfunction with custom voting software could delay efforts to declare the winners of four races for county supervisor.
In the Ohio precinct in question, the votes are recorded onto a cartridge. On one of the three machines at that precinct, a malfunction occurred in the recording process, Damschroder said. He could not explain how the malfunction occurred.
Damschroder said people who had seen poll results on the election board's Web site called to point out the discrepancy. The error would have been discovered when the official count for the election is performed later this month, he said.
The reader also recorded zero votes in a county commissioner race on the machine.
Workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in the voting machine and each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine. With the other machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up to 365 votes.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a glitch occurred with software designed for the city's new "ranked-choice voting," in which voters list their top three choices for municipal offices. If no candidate gets a majority of first-place votes outright, voters' second and third-place preferences are then distributed among candidates who weren't eliminated in the first round.
When the San Francisco Department of Elections tried a test run on Wednesday of the program that does the redistribution, some of the votes didn't get counted and skewed the results, director John Arntz said.
"All the information is there," Arntz said. "It's just not arriving the way it was supposed to."
A technician from the Omaha, Neb. company that designed the software, Election Systems & Software Inc., was working to diagnose and fix the problem.
would not make a differnece anyhow
Ok, so now Bush won by 136,000 instead of 140,000. Mark it down.
Wrong. Absentee voting and counting of the provisional ballots could send that total tumbling down to less than a few thousand. Well below the margin needed to trigger a automatic recount in the state.
Kerry let democracy down by not demanding that all the votes be counted before conceeding.
Damn, data transfer error. Wanna whip out your programming "knowledge" again Dan?the votes are recorded onto a cartridge. On one of the three machines at that precinct, a malfunction occurred in the recording process
Computers aren't perfect, software ain't perfect, and data transfer isn't 100% perfect either.
This hardly adds up to some sort of programming conspiracy.
Give it up dude. Nothing worse than a soar looser.
REGARDLESS, Kerry is a quitter! we don't want someone who won't even fight for himself...how could we expect him to fight for us?
dan, you are being a divider. time to get on board as an AMERICAN and support YOUR President.
Kerry quit for the good of the Nation. We can't let the 'darkies' know that their vote failed to register nation-wide at a much higher rate than those of caucasions after all.
No, I'm being a true supporter of democracy. One person, one vote. Lets count all the votes equally.dan, you are being a divider. time to get on board as an AMERICAN and support YOUR President.
Yeah, this is due to 'a software glitch'..
Palm Beach PostBy Eliot Kleinberg
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 05, 2004
FORT LAUDERDALE — It had to happen. Things were just going too smoothly.
Early Thursday, as Broward County elections officials wrapped up after a long day of canvassing votes, something unusual caught their eye. Tallies should go up as more votes are counted. That's simple math. But in some races, the numbers had gone . . . down.
Officials found the software used in Broward can handle only 32,000 votes per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward.
Why a voting system would be designed to count backward was a mystery to Broward County Mayor Ilene Lieberman. She was on the phone late Wednesday with Omaha-based Elections Systems and Software.
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Strange how all these 'errors' always benefit W, no?
I'm proud of the campaign Kerry fought. Time to look towards the future.
Well Dan, you only have to find the rest of your iceberg to have a point. 5000 does not 140,000 make. Keep digging. I hope your digging for all the uncounted votes in states that Kerry carried as well. I mean, EVERY vote counts right....not just in the states your canidate lost.
I love you Joe.
Then lets save the future of our democracy by pointing out all these malfeasance Joe. Ignoring them will only further divide the country.
Strangely, no one has found any errors that 'benefited' Kerry.Well Dan, you only have to find the rest of your iceberg to have a point. 5000 does not 140,000 make. Keep digging. I hope your digging for all the uncounted votes in states that Kerry carried as well. I mean, EVERY vote counts right....not just in the states your canidate lost.
has anyone looked? no one ever looked at kerry during the whole election. they just attacked bush.
Strangely, no one has found any errors that 'benefited' Kerry.
no one is looking Dan. libs aren't. and conservatives couldn't care less...our man won. besides...and we know what the lib media wants to report.
Dan, you are nuts. You must be smarter than the 10,000 lawyers that Kerry had working for him. I know that's not much of a measure, but geez. Do something more productive and find the lost points the Spurs had last year when Fisher hit that game winner.
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