"Don't reboot the computer till after the recount..."

[jayctravis]

Self deleting patch?

[trotsky]

1. Once the database is saved,

you can recount all you want and you'll get the same result. The damage has already been done.

[genieroze]

2. Maybe. eom

[EC]

3. So, if you go ahead and reboot and destroy the patch

what then? Could someone "accidently" trip on the cord and unplug the computer, causing it to reboot? Oh, wait batteries, would have to disengage battery?

[texpatriot2004]

4. No really, it's the dead battery...

[iconoclastNYC]

6. I just wonder if they'd risk it

Would republicans risk putting code all over these machines? I mean, things go wrong....what if one of these machines didn't delete the patch and was sitting there to be found?

I guess having the voting machine companies on your side helps but i just wonder if they'd risk it that way.

If there is fraud it is probably in the source code not a patch which could be discovered more easily.

[TyObe]

5. Tech said battery needed to be replaced

Chances are we're talking about the battery for the BIOS--chances are he didn't have a replacement with him. And the voter person said the computer was older and that the tech was entering DOS commands.

On the old DOS machines, if you lose the BIOS battery, you lose the BIOS settings when the computer is shut off. There is no auto-detect for the harddrive, so the computer wouldn't recognize a harddrive and would fail to boot.

That means that once the tech entered the drive configuration into the BIOS, the computer would run fine as long as the computer was left on. Turn it off and you wouldn't be able to get it to boot back up again.