Re: Guess they didn't use an iSeries...

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's all those dead people voting....messes up things every time.....

Pete


Joe Pluta wrote:

> Cook County is embroiled in controversy yet again, although this time it's
> the machines not The Machine.  Nearly a week after elections, votes are
> still being counted - votes that were supposed to be counted automatically
> by the Sequoia Voting Systems electronic balloting machines.  And while
> Sequoia insists that their systems are more secure than Diebold's because
> they don't use Windows, as it turns out this is only the voting machine
> itself.  The back end "WinEDS" system (which does the tallying and
> reporting) uses Microsoft SQL Server as its database, and evidently it has a
> problem counting a million or so votes.
>
> DB2/400 posts a million transactions in seconds (or maybe minutes, but
> certainly not days!).
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> I'm being a bit facetious here.  From what I could see, voters vote on a
> touch screen, then the touch screen results are printed out on special
> forms, which are then fed into a reader.  It's the reader that seems to be
> the bottleneck.  But I'm just guessing.
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> Joe
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