Voting System Adds Nearly 5,000 Ballots to Tally

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Voting System Adds Nearly 5,000 Ballots to Tally

Kim Zetter Wired Jun 5 2009

A software glitch in an optical-scan voting system added nearly 5,000 ballots to the tally of a South Dakota election this week. The error was discovered only after the election results were called, according to the Rapid City Journal.

The problem occurred when officials combined tallies from optical-scan machines in three precincts in Rapid City in Pennington County. The tabulation software used to combine the totals added 4,875 phantom ballots to the count.

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E-voting security fixes will get us nowhere without stats

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E-voting security fixes will get us nowhere without stats

John Timmer Ars Technica Feb 23 2009

At the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, a statistician made a forceful argument that her field can help us do a better job of ensuring fair and representative elections, but only if we decide to let it.

The recent American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting included a session entitled "Science for Public Confidence in Election Fairness and Accuracy" and, as might be expected, computer science made a significant appearance.

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A Wolf Guards the Henhouse in New Mexico

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A Wolf Guards the Henhouse in New Mexico

Votes in New Mexico's elections are counted by a private company. 'Auburn See Wolf' is in charge of programming the voting machines on the front end, and gathering the data on the back end.

Resource Type: 
Report
Publication Date: 
Oct 31 2008
Author/Publisher: 

By Stuart Overbey

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