Fl-13 B.S. test showed serious problems

Crossposted from Dailykos

FL-13: B.S. test still showed serious problems
by kos
Wed Nov 29, 2006

It's amazing that even the most cursory test of these machines show that they don't work.

This was mentioned in the BeTheMedia diary promoted earlier by Georgia10, but this is local media confirmation:

An audit of the county's touch-screen voting machines Tuesday found several discrepancies, most prominently in the disputed 13th Congressional District race, but state elections officials said it is unclear whether the problems were the result of human or machine error.

All four voting machines that officials used to simulate the Nov. 7 election had miscounts, and three of them had miscounts in the District 13 race [...]

The voting machines tested Tuesday were among those that the state programmed for the county, but were not used in the Nov. 7 election.

State officials selected four precincts, and had their workers vote to reflect proportionately how votes were cast in the actual election [...]

Of the 251 ballots cast, five additional votes were counted for Jennings, including three extra votes in one precinct. There were also miscounts in five other races.

"Most likely it's human error," said Jenny Nash, spokesperson for the State Division of Elections.

If election workers can't get their votes to properly register, how the hell are regular voters supposed to ensure their votes are properly counted? Human error? These are elections professionals. And knowing their job performance was on the line, you can bet they were concentrating extra-hard on making sure they voted correctly.

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