Forest Park didn't reject Sunday sales, but Palmetto did (voting machine errors)

[RamblingRose]

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

Only one of the 51 metro Atlanta jurisdictions holding alcohol referendums Tuesday said no to seven days of beer, wine and liquor store sales, but it wasn't Forest Park as previously thought.

It turns out the Clayton County city's machines were counting while impaired. An accumulator programmed to tally votes cast on touch-screen machines spat out grossly erroneous results, Elections Superintendent David Painter said.


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Painter said he realized something was wrong when he got home Tuesday night and saw that the results would mean nearly 1,500 ballots had been cast, when the true number was closer to 700.

The city had set up computer technology support Tuesday night, but the contractor didn't show. Painter said the city won't be paying the technician's $1,200 fee.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. Paper ballots. Machines are not reliable. That is all.

[lame54]

4. watch and share this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxF4y9tSG08

[Scuba]

2. Paper ballots, hand counted in public. Nothing less.

[lame54]

5. watch and share this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxF4y9tSG08

[Scuba]

6. +1

[wilt the stilt]

3. software never breaks

I'm in the software business and all good software has some issues. It's the nature of the beast.

[AllyCat]

7. So liquor stores can get a recount, but the voters cannot for an elected official?

These machines are not worth it. Software DOES seem to break. If is has issues, we shouldn't use it. Paper ballots, hand counted in the open. If we don't have election results for days or weeks, so be it! We'll at least have a crack at an honest election!

[valerief]

8. It probably thought it was counting votes to elect a Republican, that's why they doubled. nt