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lsanderson ([personal profile] lsanderson) wrote2008-08-21 07:06 pm
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Company acknowledges voting machine error
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:44 p.m. ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A major voting machine maker has cautioned its customers in 34 states to look out for a programming error that may cause votes to be dropped.

At least 1,000 total votes were dropped in nine Ohio counties over the course of a handful elections back to 2006, including the March presidential primary, though the error was in all cases discovered and corrected within several hours. Premier Election Solutions Inc. previously had said complications with antivirus software caused the problem, but on Tuesday the company said in a product advisory that the problem is with the machines themselves. More
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