LTE: Scrap Voting Machines
Scrap voting machines
The election supervisor for Miami Dade County, Fla., resigned in frustration and in disgrace over yet another discovery that the ES &S iVotronic touchscreen voting machines failed to count the vote on a gambling initiative. Bad programming code told the machines to ignore the votes. And they did. The problem of the machines ignoring the votes was determined to have affected the last six Florida elections.
How did this happen? The machine software code is flawed. The software programming code instructs the machines to take votes from non-existing memory areas and scramble the vote data. The vendor reportedly has known about these flaws in the Unity software for well over two years and has not fixed the problem. How many times do these machines have to fail before election officials get a clue?
How does this affect Arkansas? We vote on these machines using the same flawed Unity software in Pulaski and Faulkner counties. Voters, call Secretary of State Charlie Daniels and demand he throw these faulty machines and their software out of Arkansas elections. An accurate vote count depends on this.
LISA BURKS
CONWAY
In case you didn't see this in the letter: : Bad programming code told the machines NOT TO COUNT THE VOTE. MACHINES DID NOT COUNT THE VOTES IN THE PAST SIX ELECTIONS IN FL. We vote on these machines in THREE AR counties.
SOS office phone: 501-682-1010 NCVV note: Since the writing of this LTE, I discovered that Boone Co. had recently LEASED iVotronic touchscreen voting machines. These ivotronics were used in Boone Co. 's Nov. general election. The SOS approved their request to lease the machines.
Article published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette Saturday, 4-30-05.
The election supervisor for Miami Dade County, Fla., resigned in frustration and in disgrace over yet another discovery that the ES &S iVotronic touchscreen voting machines failed to count the vote on a gambling initiative. Bad programming code told the machines to ignore the votes. And they did. The problem of the machines ignoring the votes was determined to have affected the last six Florida elections.
How did this happen? The machine software code is flawed. The software programming code instructs the machines to take votes from non-existing memory areas and scramble the vote data. The vendor reportedly has known about these flaws in the Unity software for well over two years and has not fixed the problem. How many times do these machines have to fail before election officials get a clue?
How does this affect Arkansas? We vote on these machines using the same flawed Unity software in Pulaski and Faulkner counties. Voters, call Secretary of State Charlie Daniels and demand he throw these faulty machines and their software out of Arkansas elections. An accurate vote count depends on this.
LISA BURKS
CONWAY
In case you didn't see this in the letter: : Bad programming code told the machines NOT TO COUNT THE VOTE. MACHINES DID NOT COUNT THE VOTES IN THE PAST SIX ELECTIONS IN FL. We vote on these machines in THREE AR counties.
SOS office phone: 501-682-1010 NCVV note: Since the writing of this LTE, I discovered that Boone Co. had recently LEASED iVotronic touchscreen voting machines. These ivotronics were used in Boone Co. 's Nov. general election. The SOS approved their request to lease the machines.
Article published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette Saturday, 4-30-05.
posted by NCVV AR at 5:56 AM
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