10 percent of Cuyahoga County's voting machines fail pre-election tests

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

10 percent of Cuyahoga County's voting machines fail pre-election tests
By Joan Mazzolini, The Plain Dealer
April 14, 2010, 4:00AM

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- About 10 percent of Cuyahoga County's voting machines checked so far have failed a pre-election test, once again challenging public confidence in the election system.

With just weeks until the May 4 primary election, the system's manufacturer, Election Systems & Software Inc., has been unable to find what is causing the machines to arbitrarily power down and lock up during a test.

The problem showed up about 10 days ago when the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections began a series of routine tests on the voting machines. The machines froze during a specific test done to ensure the optical scanners were reading paper ballots correctly. At different points in that test, the machines simply started powering down, then freezing>

Employees stopped the test after 19 of the 279 machines had problems. Those 19 were put aside, and the staff started the tests on the others all over again. By the time they had retested 200 machines, nine of those that initially passed had failed the second time around>



Read more: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/04/some_cuyahoga_countys_voting_m.html

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THEY ARE LIKE A CANCER

this kind of possible false positive.

The ones that pass must be refurbished so they fail the next round of tests. How else can they control the vote?

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The thing to do is vote by mail on a paper ballot. I just did it.