Reply #2: Oops, found some more of those pesky glitches [View All]

Elko County officials have found 271 votes that were not counted in November's general election because of a "computer glitch" with the new touch-screen machine system.

Elko County Clerk Win Smith says three result cards from machines used at the Elko Convention Center were found to have had problems.

Those votes have since been recovered from the computer cards and added to the final totals. Smith says the recovered votes did not impact any election results.

She says she contacted Sequoia Voting Systems, the Oakland, Calif.-based hardware and software firm that provided the touch-screen system, and the company provided assistance in finding and correcting the problem.

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2670810&nav=8faOU0ua


More than 11,000 Saline County residents cast their ballots early and the process appeared to have gone smoothly until Monday night when a balloting snafu was discovered.

Unfortunately, 62 ballots didn't get counted by the optical scanning equipment the county used for the early voting process and all of these ballots were being recounted today, Saline County Election Commission Chairman Greg Brown said.

"Gary (Election Commissioner Gary Hunnicutt) and I tried to identify which ballots hadn't been counted, but we couldn't," Brown said.

"We're having to re-run all of them through the counting device," Brown said. "We did 2,000 last night, and we'll do the rest of them today."


http://www.bentoncourier.com/articles/2004/12/06/news/28fnews.txt


From Washington state, where the outcome of the governor's race remains in doubt, to North Carolina, where thousands of voters will recast ballots because of a computer glitch, election officials are working overtime to iron out wrinkles in the voting process.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-12-01-election-hangover_x.htm?csp=34