My vote wasn’t counted until Wednesday. Here in Flathead County Montana (>50,000 voters) we vote on paper scanner ballots. The election judges noticed after passing 2 precincts thru the scanning machines that there were:
A) Vote cast = 2 x ballots. (credited to operator error in the news here)
B) There were ZERO "no" votes on CI-147 (measure to allow cyanide heap leaching gold mining)
The officials wisely decided to stop the vote and find out what the heck was going on.
The company that programs the counter/scanner (never mentioned by name in our media) reprogrammed last into the night.
The local paper reported that they had "forgotten" to count the NO vote.
I really wish these machines and their software would be examined by many experts.
Remember, "To err is human, to massively screw it up is computer."
My vote wasn’t counted until Wednesday. Here in Flathead County Montana (>50,000 voters) we vote on paper scanner ballots. The election judges noticed after passing 2 precincts thru the scanning machines that there were:
A) Vote cast = 2 x ballots. (credited to operator error in the news here)
B) There were ZERO "no" votes on CI-147 (measure to allow cyanide heap leaching gold mining)
The officials wisely decided to stop the vote and find out what the heck was going on.
The company that programs the counter/scanner (never mentioned by name in our media) reprogrammed last into the night.
The local paper reported that they had "forgotten" to count the NO vote.
I really wish these machines and their software would be examined by many experts.
Remember, "To err is human, to massively screw it up is computer."