So the power was out a couple weeks ago...and the server crashed today...South Florida Sun-Sentinal wrote:Palm Beach voting test delayed until Friday because of computer crash
Associated Press
Posted October 13 2004, 2:15 PM EDT
WEST PALM BEACH -- A public test of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machines was postponed because a computer server crashed.
Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore said a power failure during Hurricane Jeanne caused temperatures in the building to rise, which may have damaged the computer
The computer failure won't affect the function of the machines during the Nov. 2 presidential election, she said. Even if one of the file servers goes down on election night, LePore said the votes cast on the electronic machines won't be lost and the office would use a backup server.
State law requires that a portion of the touch-screen voting machines be tested publicly before an election to ensure they work properly.
``This is very troublesome, that less than three weeks away from a presidential election we have problems with these machines,'' said Lale Mamaux, spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, a critic of electronic voting. ``Let's hope that on Friday, she's able to run the test.''
LePore, who was defeated in the Aug. 31 primary, is a defendant in a suit filed by Wexler claiming touch-screen voting machines are unconstitutional because they don't allow manual recounts in close elections.
Copyright © 2004, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
well the good news is that there is a paper trail and in the event of an equipment failure in 20 days we have some ....sort....of....paper trail....
ah....maybe that is why Jeb Bush encouraged Republicans to vote via absentee ballot, and at the same time said there was nothing wrong with the voting machines....
