"Yik Yak" <jim553@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:grjro01373n5rbqqrd54s8rdll2bbvf8r6@4ax.com...

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 19:15:57 -0800, "NoPlutocracyUSA"
<person332XFG400201@adelphia.net> wrote:

"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:n3foo0pvfscvu6iq3g9a7jtv950okkugtr@4ax.com...

From The Associated Press, 11/5/04:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&u=/ap/20041104/ap_on_el_pr/vo

ting_problems&printer=1

N.C. Computer Loses More Than 4,500 Votes

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. -

More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county
because officials believed a computer that stored ballots
electronically could hold more data than it did.

Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state.

Local officials said UniLect Corp., the maker of the county's
electronic voting system, told them that each storage unit could
handle 10,500 votes, but the limit was actually 3,005 votes.

Expecting the greater capacity, the county used only one unit during
the early voting period.

"If we had known, we would have had the units to handle the votes,"
said Sue Verdon, secretary of the county election board.

Officials said 3,005 early votes were stored, but 4,530 were lost.

Jack Gerbel, president and owner of Dublin, Calif.-based UniLect, said
Thursday that the county's elections board was given incorrect
information.

There is no way to retrieve the missing data, he said.

"That is the situation and it's definitely terrible," he said.

In a letter to county officials, he blamed the mistake on confusion
over which model of the voting machines was in use in Carteret County.

But he also noted that the machines flash a warning message when there
is no more room for storing ballots.

"Evidently, this message was either ignored or overlooked," he wrote.

County election officials were meeting with State Board of Elections
Executive Director Gary Bartlett on Thursday and did not immediately
return a telephone call seeking comment.

____________________________________________________________

Yup.

Harry

See, it's just like the righties said. There's no reason for those

backup

paper ballots.

I wonder why someone didn't figure out that these new "touch screen"
computer voting machines should have printed out something after the
ballot was eletronically cast? The voter should have been printed a
small slip confirming his ballot as he would have he if had completed
a transaction on most bank ATM machines. Voters could've cast these
printed slips into giant ballot box, so there would be at least some
sort of documentation or paper trail in case of a recount. It just
seems to be huge blunder on part of the designers of the new voting
machines.

Exactly what you said has been suggested here for well over a year.

has been intentionally avoided in order to facilitate electronic voting
machine fraud.