The New York Times reports that my concern about voting machines is shared with … President Trump.
A Dominion ImageCast precinct-count optical-scan voting machine, mounted on a collapsible ballot box made by ElectionSource.
Source: WikipediaPresident Trump on Thursday spread new baseless claims about Dominion Voting Systems, which makes software that local governments around the nation use to help run their elections, fueling a conspiracy theory that Dominion “software glitches” changed vote tallies in Michigan and Georgia last week.
The Dominion software was used in only two of the five counties that had problems in Michigan and Georgia, and in every instance there was a detailed explanation for what had happened. In all of the cases, software did not affect the vote counts.
One of the areas that had me worried was the age of the machines, but, at least in Georgia, it appears that concern has been addressed:
Georgia spent $107 million on 30,000 of the company’s machines last year. In some cases, they proved to be headaches in the state’s primary elections in June, though officials largely attributed the problems to a lack of training for election workers.
So now I’m both relieved and a little saddened that there almost certainly won’t be a little bump for Mr. Ossoff in Georgia Senate Race A over the 50% barrier.
A little drama lost, a little technical assurance gained. I’m such a bad engineer sometimes.
