Front page of Chicago Tribune: Voting Glitches Feared on Nov. 7th

[AtLiberty]

Voting glitches feared on Nov. 7

More races, bigger turnout will test new machines

By John McCormick
Tribune staff reporter
Published October 19, 2006

With the November election just weeks away, Chicago and Cook County officials have yet to fix some of the problems that led to a virtual meltdown of the new electronic voting system used in the spring primary.

Twice as many voters are likely to head for the polls on Nov. 7, where they will face new voting procedures and test the training of election workers who were often baffled by the machinery in March.

The most likely stumbling block for a smooth election remains a small device that is supposed to consolidate totals from two voting systems and transmit the results downtown via cellular technology. In the spring, many judges couldn't get it to work.

And it will still be possible for workers to accidentally fry vote totals if they forget to disconnect the power from ballot scanners before data cartridges are removed at the end of the night...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0610190125oct19,1,3306549.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[diva77]

1. Too bad they use the term "glitches" seems more like

"failure" or "built in defect with potential to swing election wrong way" ought to be the term(s) of choice:grr: