Workers Get 'Error Message' After Elections (Cuyahoga County, OH)

Source: Newsnet5.com

POSTED: 11:43 am EDT October 15, 2008
UPDATED: 1:11 pm EDT October 15, 2008

CLEVELAND -- The special elections in Cuyahoga County experienced a few problems, officials said.

Cuyahoga County Elections Director Jane Platten said scanners at the polls gave workers "error messages" at the start of the voting.

Platten believes the problem was most likely linked to the memory cards not being completely inserted into the machines.

NewsChannel5 will have more information about the problem and efforts that will be undertaken to avoid the same problems during the November election.

Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/17721517/detail.html

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Nice....

How long does it take to figure them out? :banghead:

I'm taking time off work tomorrow morning to go vote early at the BOE downtown. I wonder if it'll even matter?

I showed up late, maybe 5 minutes before the polls opened, and while the tables, signs, and everything else was up, the machines were still sealed. Nobody could remember the procedure for setting them up. I got one machine at each of the two precincts in the room up and running well enough by a few minutes after the polls opened, and finished the niceties (plugging in the light, etc.) when the opening rush ended.

The rest of the poll workers had been doing this for at least a decade, with the same kind of machines. But all of their brains decided to misfire at once. I'd just had refresher training.

It's not always how many times you've done it, often it's how recently you've done it.

The ERD machines should all be put in a landfill.

Canada uses paper ballots counted by hand with scrutineers.

No error messages.

Results were out in time for the 11 p.m. news.

True, honest and accurate voting is not allowed by the GOP.

I would love for us to return to paper ballots counted by hand. Canada is way ahead of us on that account.