Comments on Advance Indiana™: Another Reason To Question Reliability Of Voting Machines

At the end of the day on Election Day, the Inspect...

2006-06-05T07:52:00.000-05:00

At the end of the day on Election Day, the Inspector and precinct workers tally up the votes for each of their machines, then give that information to the Election Board. So the EB has hard copy information on each of the precincts - they would need to add up the two machines at each precinct but somehow that doesn't strike me as an impossible task. I don't understand why it has taken them a month to type in a spreadsheet, make sure the numbers add up to the total votes cast, and then stick it on their website.

Dave--thanks for the link to your letter. Your poi...

2006-06-04T21:17:00.000-05:00

Dave--thanks for the link to your letter. Your points are very valid. As a former general counsel and project manager for a software company, I totally agree with your analysis of programming the work for a voting software program. As computer programs go, the coding should be relatively easy compared to other, more complex transactions. Any competent programmer should have no problem meeting the challenge.

Here is an article I wrote on Newsvine about votin...

2006-06-04T21:06:00.000-05:00

Here is an article I wrote on Newsvine about voting reform, talking a bit about Indiana's primaries and a letter I wrote to the News-Sentinel (which they didn't publish).

The whole issue is disturbing and distressing. Once we lose confidence in our elections, our democracy dies. This is a completely non-partisan issue, and every single voter should be screaming at the top of their lungs to their respective officials.

so it would seem in Allen County but isn't there ...

2006-06-04T16:54:00.000-05:00

so it would seem in Allen County but isn't there Hoosier law requiring initial tallying at each precinct or have all those old-fashioned checks-and-balances been chucked in favor of modern technology?

Presumably the voting machines in Allen Co. were l...

2006-06-04T16:20:00.000-05:00

Presumably the voting machines in Allen Co. were linked to a central database, which actually did the vote tallying.

As a precinct committeeperson of over 20 years, it...

2006-06-04T13:35:00.000-05:00

As a precinct committeeperson of over 20 years, it was my experience that the tally is produced locally in each precinct and multiple copies are then sent to various entities, including one for each major political party...