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soothsayer

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Sat Sep 26, 2020, 06:19 PM Sep 2020

Error discovered on Georgia touchscreens in US Senate race (But it's ok-- this is why they test)


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Of course. Error discovered on Georgia touchscreens in US Senate race

Error discovered on Georgia touchscreens in US Senate race
ajc.com
https://t.co/duZUz8Duhv?amp=1

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Georgia election officials said Saturday they found a programming error on the state’s voting touchscreens that caused a row of candidates in the 21-person U.S. Senate special election to disappear at times when flipping back and forth between screens.

The problem will require reprogramming the state’s 30,000 new touchscreens, called ballot-marking devices, about two weeks before in-person early voting begins Oct. 12....


“Logic and accuracy testing discovered an issue where if a user flips back and forth multiple times between the Senate special election and the previous race (which is not typical), the second column would, in rare occasions, not appear,” Fuchs said. “This was discovered as it should have been during L&A testing.”


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