Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
41 voters in Atlanta, Texas went to the polls to vote for, amongst other items, a candidate for City Council District 1. Little did those voters know that the city had leased the machines from Cass County and Hart Intercivic had done the ballot programming which contained an error. It turns out that the vendor had programmed the DREs used by the city so more than just citizens of District 1 could vote in that particular race. Rather than 41 votes there was a combined total of 198 votes cast. This is an accuracy issue that was not caused by the voters and is another clear violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5)….
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RE: TX: Cass County – City discovers error
http://atlantacitizensjo…038;id=210&Itemid=2
Not only is this a violation of the accuracy requirement it is an example of the mischief/mistakes that can be wrought by the ballot definition files alone.
Also, there was a clear failure to test the ballot definition prior to the election. One the express requirements was that balloting for District 1 be limited to voters of District 1. The way to confirm or deny this requirement has been met is to attempt to vote as voters for every district EXCEPT district 1. The expected result in all cases is you will not be allowed to cast the ballot in district 1.
Testing software is hard, tedious work which requires a definite and specific plan designed to find failure not success.
John Daily Show type humor:
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re: Netherlands-Dutch Government Bans Electronic Voting
What great news and a good story, until I saw this..
“Instead of electronic voting machines, the nation will now shift focus to electronic vote counting. Election officials will initiate tests where a person will read out the elected name on the voting form. In one test, a second person will count the vote by scanning a barcode. A second test will use a special counting-device.”
huh? what happened? electric vote counting?