[LINK] Voting stories coming out

[Jan Whitaker]

It's primary season in the US, where any sort of voting problem is 
oging to be experienced at least once.

This one is frightening:
http://waukesha.patch.com/articles/another-election-night-snafu-in-waukesha-county#c


However, she told the 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/more-election-night-problems-in-waukesha-il4sbmm-146106695.html>Journal 
Sentinel that when her staff went to upload data delivered by local 
clerks in packs and cards into her computer program, it didn't work.

"We were shocked," she told the newspaper, adding that the program 
had been tested "many times."

As a result, her staff manually entered every vote total for every 
candidate in every race and every municipality by hand, and then 
proofed them against the voting machine tapes before posting them 
online, according to the Journal Sentinel report.
[see the picture]


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