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VOTE: Broward County Florida: Maximum 32,000 Votes Allowed

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SkepticOverlord

posted on Nov, 8 2004 @ 02:55 PM
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The software used in electronic voting machines in Broward county shipped with an odd limitation, 32,000 votes. It seems the software had a ceiling of 32,000 votes per precinct. While that may seem like enough of a problem, once machines reached 32,000 votes, they started counting backward with each new vote!
 

www.palmbeachpost.com 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. Bad numbers showed up only in running tallies through the day, not the final one. Final tallies were reached by cross-checking machine totals, and officials are confident they are accurate. The glitch affected only the 97,434 absentee ballots, Broward Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes said. All were placed in their own precincts and optical scanners totaled votes, which were then fed to a main computer.

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While it appears as though this only effected absentee ballots (what a relief), this is one known error of a massively inept kind. How many more could there be we don't know about?


Valhall

posted on Nov, 8 2004 @ 02:59 PM
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SO...did you catch the bug that plagued the early voting down by San Antonio?

I'll try to find a link to that. Apparently another case of really screwing up the lay-out combined with bad code. I'll find it for you, it was reported just before the election.

Thanks for sharing this! When it comes to e-voting - JUST VOTE NO!



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