PA: "Accupoll was a little wafty about the whole affair"

Kudos for Litz and Stohler

January 29, 2006

Lebanon Daily News

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It was over Litz’s objections that her fellow-commissioners, Bill Carpenter and Larry Stohler, last month voted to order touch-screen voting machines from a company called AccuPoll. Whether acting more on intuition or insight — all she said was that she had concerns about the company’s financial status — Litz supplied the dissenting vote in a mid-December split decision in favor of Accupoll.

It turned out to be a bad decision. This week, the commissioners learned that Accupoll had decided to back out of the deal.

Accupoll was a little wafty about the whole affair, and Lord knows when the commissioners would have found out about the problem but for Litz, who heard somewhere about a county in Texas that had been left hanging by Accupoll. That was earlier this month, and it prompted county officials to begin asking questions. The answers were not good.

“First they called and said they were concerned that they were not going to meet the deadline (so the county would have the machines up and running by the May primary),” Carpenter told the Daily News last week, “and then they called on Monday and said they definitely can’t meet the deadline and suggested we go somewhere else.”

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http://www.ldnews.com/editorials/ci_3448683


I turned to Urban Dictionary for a definition of wafty.

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A male with a stupidly extravagant hairstyle that usually features highlights that make him look like a parking cone. Excessive gel is also present, as well as a snappy dress sense. Mostly plays football, and thinks he has excessive skill ,although more waftys are popping up amongst rugby union players (mainly in the backs). Often flout school dress codes by wearing off-white shirts, or trousers with faint black lines, or checks.
"Look at those wafty's over there, gelling their hair"- Before a game of football.

Source: Paul S, Nov 30, 2004

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Used when something is wonky or if someone does something crap
That shot was wafty
The table is wafty

Source: thelostlibertine, Apr 1, 2005

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hammas won the election...and Isreal is the occupier..there! there!

Sorry about that. It's Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

It actually ended up being worse in that ESS will get the contract. Accupoll has been trying since 2000 to be a new kid on the block. They abandoned their initial system (see Webtools International - their original company name) and went to make a VVPB type system. They went public by buying a shell company and reissued stock in order to finance themselves. They may be the only voting machine company that is public (and it not a small piece of a larger company).

Upon some digging, apparently Unisys was going to build the machines but PA added some new rules on paper ballots that Accupoll was not certified to produce. See the story here http://www.standard-journal.com/articles/2006/01/25/news/news3.txt It is silly that Accupoll would lose an account if they did not have a certified absentee ballot system. Their info says nothing of this important feature. It is embarassing to all of the county officials that did not include that requirement for the RFP.

That is really the problem. This never should have gotten to a vote on using Accupoll. This is why I still think that the biggest problems with elections are the officials.