E-Voting Machines Used in Disputed Franken, Coleman Race Failed Tests

[Fluffdaddy]

By Jason Leopold


Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:48:00

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Electronic voting machines that a Michigan election official said last week incorrectly tabulated vote counts during pre-election tests in the state were used in Minnesota where the senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken is in dispute.


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http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=173&a=8643

[99th_Monkey]

1. How the hell do are they going to do the legally mandated recount then?

since the e-voting machines don't leave paper trails ... anyone?

[Esra Star]

2. Fortunately

"Minnesota voters uses optical scan ballots that voters mark by hand"

They will count these manually.

Too bad we don't know which one the 15% of independants liked.

First past the post is so corruptable.

[99th_Monkey]

3. Whew! Let's hear it for re-countable paper ballots, you gotta love 'em. ~nt~

[Fluffdaddy]

4. For the first time I now believe Franken has a real shot at pulling this out

[Bonn1997]

5. They Use E-Voting in Mn??

Is VerifiedVoting.org wrong? It says it's entirely paper ballot
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Minnesota uses only paper ballots and optical scanners.

[Wilms]

10. A lot of 'anti-Touch Screen DRE' activists fail to mention optical scan is electronic counting.

And optical scan is what happens to most 'paper ballots'.

In this case, there was a recount trigger. And the recount will be done by hand (not by machine like in FL, and elsewhere). That doesn't always happen.

[1776Forever]

6. If anyone wants to look at it here is a link to the Recount Guide for MN - I found it interesting...

http://www.sos.state.mn.us/docs/recount_guide_2008.pdf?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUxWoW_oD:EaDUiacyKUU

[Hope And Change]

7. K & R!

[lelgt60]

9. Well, there's the problem...they tested them.

No tests...no problems. Given the apparent state of their product development process, I'm surprised this was on the checklist.