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

   Well, for the important stuff, Cook County uses an iSeries running JDE.
   The city of Chicago is a little more backwards. The fire and police
   pension administration system is running an old AS/400 model 436.
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   Paul Nelson
   Arbor Solutions, Inc.
   708-670-6978  Cell
   pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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     To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     From: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
     Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     Date: 03/28/2006 12:21AM
     Subject: Re: Guess they didn't use an iSeries...

     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!).
     >
     >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.
     >
     >Joe
     >
     >
     >  
     >
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