Defective software 'lost' votes
By ERIKA BOLSTAD
ebolstad@herald.com
Thousands of new votes on some constitutional amendment questions were discovered early Thursday, potentially forcing a recount on the question of a South Florida vote on slot machines.
As absentee ballot counting wound down after midnight in Broward County's elections warehouse, attorneys scrutinizing the close vote on Amendment Four noticed that vote totals changed in an unexpected way after 13,000 final ballots were counted.
Election officials quickly determined the problem was caused by the Unity Software that pulls together votes from five machines tabulating absentee ballots.
Because no precinct has more than 32,000 voters, the software caps the total votes at that number. From there, it begins to count backward.
Source: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10099198.htm?1c (registration require)
Another after another one... why did I not surprise about this? :roll: You know, it will be nice sometimes if it is NOT predictable.
By ERIKA BOLSTAD
ebolstad@herald.com
Thousands of new votes on some constitutional amendment questions were discovered early Thursday, potentially forcing a recount on the question of a South Florida vote on slot machines.
As absentee ballot counting wound down after midnight in Broward County's elections warehouse, attorneys scrutinizing the close vote on Amendment Four noticed that vote totals changed in an unexpected way after 13,000 final ballots were counted.
Election officials quickly determined the problem was caused by the Unity Software that pulls together votes from five machines tabulating absentee ballots.
Because no precinct has more than 32,000 voters, the software caps the total votes at that number. From there, it begins to count backward.
Source: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10099198.htm?1c (registration require)
Another after another one... why did I not surprise about this? :roll: You know, it will be nice sometimes if it is NOT predictable.
