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Article: Some electronic voting machines not 'up to date'
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Article date:
- November 8, 2006
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There were no hanging chads, but some voters were left hanging on
Election Day.
Programming errors in every voting machine in Westmoreland County
left voters standing in long lines at some polls, turned away at
others and using paper ballots in one Jeannette precinct.
A software glitch that caused more than 800 touch-screen machines
to act as though it was not Election Day prompted some computers to
shut down early and others to never start at all.
Officials blamed the failures on a glitch in which the electronic
ballots loaded into the new computers were given an incorrect time
stamp. All of the county's more than 800 voting machines reflected
Monday's date and were not ready to accept ...