Post by Logan on Jun 8, 2016 3:54:24 GMT -6
San Mateo County elections officials switch to paper ballots after electronic voting machine glitch
OAKLAND -- A software glitch in 140 electronic voting machines prompted San Mateo County elections officials to dole out paper ballots while technicians scrambled to fix the error Tuesday morning.
The problem was coding, said Jim Irizarry, assistant chief elections officer. The agency uses the Hart InterCivic "eSlate" machine, he said. Those machines are connected to a central system, and without the proper coding, the voting machines could not communicate to the central system.
The glitch "should not have occurred," Irizarry said.
"When you're programming the units, you should code them properly," he said. "I believe we probably did not code those machines as well as we should have."
Read more: www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29988816/san-mateo-county-elections-officials-switch-paper-ballots
OAKLAND -- A software glitch in 140 electronic voting machines prompted San Mateo County elections officials to dole out paper ballots while technicians scrambled to fix the error Tuesday morning.
The problem was coding, said Jim Irizarry, assistant chief elections officer. The agency uses the Hart InterCivic "eSlate" machine, he said. Those machines are connected to a central system, and without the proper coding, the voting machines could not communicate to the central system.
The glitch "should not have occurred," Irizarry said.
"When you're programming the units, you should code them properly," he said. "I believe we probably did not code those machines as well as we should have."
Read more: www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29988816/san-mateo-county-elections-officials-switch-paper-ballots