Voting machines malfunction in central Iowa county

[OKIsItJustMe]

Source: AP

Voting machines malfunction in central Iowa county
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG

In Central Iowa’s Story County, home to about 100,000 people and the city of Ames, voting machines at some precincts malfunctioned, portending possible delays to reporting results.

“We are aware of technical issues regarding tabulators in some precincts in Story County,” said Ashley Hunt Esquivel, a spokesperson for Iowa Secretary of State’s Office. “The auditor is working with the vendor and our office to resolve it. It is not stopping anyone from casting a single ballot. It may impact how quickly we can report results.”

Story County Auditor Lucy Martin told the Des Moines Register that machines did not read “certain ballot styles” at about 12 of the county’s 45 polling locations. Election workers would have to count ballots at those locations by hand, according to local Democratic and Republican Party officials. The machines were tested and the cause of the technical difficulties was unknown, Martin added.

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[dchill]

1. "No one could have foreseen..."

(Quoting Condoleezza Rice.)

[displacedvermoter]

2. There is a college there, I think!

[SharonClark]

3. Yes, there is. Iowa State University

[displacedvermoter]

7. Kinda place that these things tend to happen, it seems.

[zipplewrath]

12. Bit of trivia

The full name is Iowa State University of Science and Technology

[LisaL]

5. Sounds like they have the ballots, but machine's can't read them.

So they can still count them eventually.
Trump will just have to wait. There is no law that it has to be counted on election day.

[Texas 48]

6. Texas 48

Actually, one of the premiere engineering schools in the country.....Iowa State University

[exboyfil]

10. My daughter and son in law are Mechanical Engineering graduates from there

I did take enough coursework to get another MS in Engineering from there, but never got my act together to get the proper approvals.

Yes. It is a great engineering college.

[lastlib]

11. Welcome to DU!

[central scrutinizer]

4. Accuracy is more important than speed

Fuck the urge to report a winner quickly.

[slightlv]

8. I know you're 100% correct in what you say...

but today is going to be the longest day in history already!

[Dem2theMax]

13. It's been the longest day in history since he announced his first run.

It's been one miserable day after another, all rolled into one, since he came down that damn escalator.

Here's hoping that within a few days or maybe even a week, we won't ever have to hear that name again. Unless it's tied to another word. Prison.

[FakeNoose]

9. Exactly - it's only the TeeVee News that demands quick results