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Today Placer personnel changed the setup parameters on 222
voters cards without incident, that is we didn't notice problem
DURING the first process of inserting the memory cards to change the
setup parameter for phone and output device mods. But during the next
process of reinserting the cards for "reset to pre-election"
there were 3 cards with Text Checksum errors, and 2 with Pct data errors.
We lost 3 yesterday from the time we loaded warehouse decks to the time of
upload and 5 today.
Needless to say they are fairly concerned about our memory
card problems. The probelm seems to be just as bad or worse than it has
been during the past 3 or 4 years. 4 times we got "ok to format" and by
reinserting the card a few times got back to normal status. They are now
contemplating asking us for double the memory cards (at our cost) and making
copies of every card. They are discussing contingency plans for
election day morning and evening. This has now become a "big deal" to
them. I am not filing bugtrack, but simply saying we still have the
same problems of memory card corruption that we've had for several years.
See archives each election cycle for past emails on same subject.
Steve Knecht
Diebold Election Systems 415-893-9941 office 415-893-9951 fax 415-225-6591 cell |