Posted on Sun, Aug. 15, 2004
2004 ELECTION
Vote system test results perfect, with a few bumps
Miami-Dade's election equipment test produced a perfect vote count, but a computer program froze and a few managerial problems were revealed.
BY JOE MOZINGO
jmozingo@herald.com
Miami-Dade County election officials wrapped up their extensive, somewhat chaotic test of the electronic voting system at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, announcing they had perfect results but ran into some unexpected problems along the way.
A computer program designed to detect fraud froze up some results from the mock election because more ballots were cast than there were active registered voters in the precincts. It took at least an hour for election officials and representatives of the machines' manufacturer, Election Systems & Software (ES&S), to override the program.
''ES&S is aware that the county was a little miffed at how complicated this all was,'' said Douglas Jones, a University of Iowa computer science professor and consultant for the county.
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