Disgraceful

I read on Kriptópolis that the American company Premier Elections Solutions (*) admits it has a critical programming error in its electronic voting system, one that would cause thousands of cast votes to be lost in the counting process, and that this error has been there for at least 10 years!

The error makes votes disappear before they are counted, and it occurs in the process of transferring them from the memory cards to the central tally. Apparently, in a matter of milliseconds, votes not yet counted end up permanently discarded when new ones arrive at the central count.

The very serious error was detected after the Ohio primaries last March but, after trying to pin the blame on bugs in the antivirus software in use and on vague human errors, the company has been forced to admit that the flaw has been present in its software for 10 years and affects both the touch screens and the scanners, its consequences being more serious the larger the number of votes involved in the election…

Looks like Michael Moore has material for another documentary…

(*) a subsidiary of Diebold, a well-known maker of ATMs.