Well, the hammer (or at least a hammer) has dropped in Fairfax County, Virginia, where a Republican candidate for school board lost a close race.
At-large School Board member Rita S. Thompson, who narrowly lost reelection, said she is considering a challenge because of problems with voting machines. Voters in three precincts said in interviews that when they attempted to vote for her, the machines initially displayed an "x" next to her name but then, after a few seconds, the "x" disappeared.
Thompson has asked that electoral board staff members test every machine to determine the extent of such problems, and she said she is considering filing a lawsuit to force them to do so.
County election officials tried one of the machines in question and discovered that the glitch occurred about "one out of a hundred tries," Luca said. She added that she would take Thompson's request "under serious consideration."
Having a paper trail for audits is crucial and events like these are going to start making it clear that it should be a bipartisan issue. We wouldn't tolerate ATM machines with a 1% error rate.
Everyone wants to be Bellona Times when they grow up, although Ray said he sometimes wanted to be Waggish.
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