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Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said it was the only mishap of the day
that was brought to the attention of her office. She attributed the
problem to “first day jitters.”
Minutes after early voting locations opened in Travis County, Texas, Greg
Lavender was there, but only two of the 10 Hart InterCivic voting stations
were working.
Dr. Lavender is no stranger to computers. He is a professor in the
Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas.
On one of the machines that was working, Lavender entered his choices and
then checked several of those choices randomly to ensure the computer got
them right. It did, but then the machine informed him that his vote had not
been counted.
Dr. Lavender was moved to the other machine that was supposed to be
functioning only to find that it too, was not working. Finally, as a last
resort, the election judge had him fill out a paper ballot.
“I
got to cast my vote, and I don’t feel like I was defrauded or anything, I
just feel they’re not quite ready. I think I can tolerate a high level of
technical problems that most voters wouldn’t.”, Lavender told reporters with
All Ablog Austin. The whole process took about half an hour.
Lavender worried that a software glitch might have caused the problem, but
DeBeauvoir said it happened because several wires were not connected
properly.
For more on this issue please read:
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The Unending Cost of Voting Machines
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