Diebold Machines Mistally NH Election
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Diebold Machines Mistally NH Election
Two ‘Accu-Vote’ Machines Confiscated for Examination by Attorney General After Results Fail to Add Up
(Just Another ‘Glitch’)
Diebold’s hackable Accu-Vote (Hack-U-Vote?) machines fail again.
From New Hampshire’s Union Leader on Thursday…
Grafton – No matter how you do the math, 193 “yeas” plus 198 “nays” don’t add up to 369 votes.
That faulty equation — results of a warrant article vote from Tuesday’s election ballot — was the first clue for Grafton town officials that something was wrong.
As a result, two voting machines used to collect ballots in the annual town and school district meetings are now in the custody of the Attorney General’s Office, removed from the town yesterday, said Grafton Selectman Jennie Joyce.
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She said the voting machine showed no signs of malfunctions during two pre-election tests — most recently one week prior to the election.
It’s notable, by the way, that the Union Leader’s story refers to the “Accu-Vote” machines being confiscated, but never mentions the maker of the machines — in this case, Diebold.
It’s unclear from the story whether these were optical-scan or touch-screen machines, but apparently there is some paper that can be counted to get an accurate count of the election, instead of an “Accu-Vote” count of the election. According to the article, “Joyce said she is in favor of recounting ballots, both by hand and by machine.” — so it would seem there is something to actually go back and count.
And yes, the problem is referred to as a “glitch” at one point in the story. As it always is. This time in reference to a heretofore unknown issue (at least to us) concerning “dip switches” on these machines…
McDow, who is trained to operate the voting machine, said she learned more after placing a call yesterday to LHS Associates of Methuen, Mass., the company that services the town’s Accu-Vote machine.
“They told me one of the dip switches let go, or the problem had to do with one of the dip switches not being set — that’s what LHS told me after I read them the information from the tally sheet,” McDow said.
The toggle switch glitch likely caused some ballots to be counted twice, McDow said.
The “Glitch” that Would Destroy American Democracy. Cuz we let it.
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