Day before early voting, glitch found with machines

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Day before early voting, glitch found with machines

by Matthew Thompson, Charleston Daily Mail

Charleston, W.Va. -- On the eve of early voting, problems with the general election ballots are causing Kanawha County officials to conduct an emergency test of its voting machines.

On Monday, the Secretary of State's office notified the County Clerk's office of a problem in the programming cards used in the M100 machines. 

The machines scan a person's optical scan ballot to determine if they have made any mistakes, such as voting for too many candidates.

County Commission President Kent Carper said the problem is in the section for Supreme Court candidates.

If a person votes a straight party ticket, then deviates from the party in the Supreme Court section, the machine still counts the vote as a full straight ticket, Carper said.

UConn Report Shows Junk Memory Cards Direct From Vendor

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UConn Report Shows Junk Memory Cards Direct From Vendor

UConn has a new report of the Pre-Election testing of memory cards for the August 2008 Primary, Pre-Election Audit of Memory Cards for the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections

There was a different methodology used to gather cards for this report. Previous reports were of an incomplete selection of memory cards shipped to UConn by registrars — which should have been subject to pre-election testing before selection and shipping to UConn. Those reports demonstrated that many election officials failed to properly follow pre-election testing procedures. In addition there were questions about “junk” data cards that could not be read.

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