NoMoreApathy
01-09-2008, 08:50 PM
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/581009.html
A shipment of 174 computer chips vital to ballot-counting machines was sent from the secretary of state's office to San Diego County last week – but disappeared in transit.
Nobody knows whether the chips, which enable optical-scan computers to read paper ballots, were stolen or simply dropped out of two cardboard tubes holding them.
Officials are scratching their heads.
"When the tubes arrived at our office, one was missing a cap and was completely empty," said Deborah Seiler, San Diego County registrar of voters.
"The other tube had its cap on, but there was just a little piece of tape on either side – and it had been disturbed," she said. "It was also empty."
(More at the link...)
This happened on Dec. 20, and regardless of what this article says, or the people involved, this puts the whole California primary into question now.
NO MORE FUCKING MACHINES!!!!!!!
A shipment of 174 computer chips vital to ballot-counting machines was sent from the secretary of state's office to San Diego County last week – but disappeared in transit.
Nobody knows whether the chips, which enable optical-scan computers to read paper ballots, were stolen or simply dropped out of two cardboard tubes holding them.
Officials are scratching their heads.
"When the tubes arrived at our office, one was missing a cap and was completely empty," said Deborah Seiler, San Diego County registrar of voters.
"The other tube had its cap on, but there was just a little piece of tape on either side – and it had been disturbed," she said. "It was also empty."
(More at the link...)
This happened on Dec. 20, and regardless of what this article says, or the people involved, this puts the whole California primary into question now.
NO MORE FUCKING MACHINES!!!!!!!