Pennsylvania: "glitch" found in Allegheny Co.'s voting machines
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: After four hours of testing yesterday, a glitch was found in the voting system Allegheny County is planning to use in the May 16 primary.
"So far, it's not fatal," said Michael Shamos, the Carnegie Mellon University professor who will recommend whether the system should be certified in Pennsylvania.
"You do have some diagnosing to do," he told representatives of Sequoia Voting Systems, the Oakland, Calif.-based manufacturer of the AVC Advantage voting machines tested yesterday.
A week ago elections were disrupted in Chicago and the rest of Cook County because of a rash of problems with two of Sequoia's other voting systems. Problems occurred there when poll workers tried to transfer results from the machines onto tabulators that compile vote totals, said Joan Krawitz, executive director of Vote Trust USA and a resident of Cook County. -- Minor glitch found in Allegheny County voting machines