Cuyahoga County plagued with voting machine problems again

liberal N proud

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Wed Nov-07-07 06:07 AM
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Cuyahoga County plagued with voting machine problems again

Edited on Wed Nov-07-07 06:09 AM by liberal N proud

5 Percent Of Registered Voters Cast Ballots

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Officials at the BOE had to stop counting ballots at about 11 p.m. All the voting machines went down while downloading memory cards.

The server first crashed at about 9 p.m. for 10 minutes and then it started again.

After going down for the second time, a Diebold technician was called in to to take a look at the problem.

Machines were then taken down every 45 minutes for the BOE to be able to save the information from all the cards.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21663230/

Cross posted in Ohio forum: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=172x22844

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flashl

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Wed Nov-07-07 08:09 AM
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1. Cuyahoga County IMO is where thousands of votes

disappeared in 2004 and never really was accounted for. Are they just perfecting their plans for 2008?

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liberal N proud

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Wed Nov-07-07 08:11 AM
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2. If it couldn't handle 5% of the voters what will it be like in a General Election?

Of course Diebold equipment is in place.

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OzarkDem

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Wed Nov-07-07 08:14 AM
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3. Though well intentioned

their new Dem management and Board members are still political appointees and don't have a lot of technical expertise. Most of the regular staff there are also still political appointees with the same problem.

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