Ethics

UPDATED: Voting Machine Problems in Michigan

By Ed Brayton

Update at the bottom

The Election Assistance Commission, a central clearinghouse established by the HAVA law for information on voting problems, has posted a letter from Ruth Johnson, the Oakland County clerk here in Michigan (and a Republican), revealing problems with the voting machines. Specifically, the machine doesn't seem to be able to record the same vote twice even when it's reading the same ballot fed through a second time.

The issue is this - four of our communities or eight percent - reported inconsistent vote totals during their logic and accuracy testing with the ES&S machines. The same ballots, run through the same machines, yielded different results each time.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).