Voting machine contract under scrutiny following discrepancies in Puerto Rico's primaries

[Judi Lynn]

BY CORAL MURPHY MARCOS
Updated 4:32 PM CDT, June 11, 2024

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s elections commission said Tuesday that it’s reviewing its contract with a U.S. electronic voting company after hundreds of discrepancies were discovered following the island’s heated primaries.

The problem stemmed from a software issue that caused machines supplied by Dominion Voting Systems to incorrectly calculate vote totals, said Jessika Padilla Rivera, the commission’s interim president.

While no one is contesting the results from the June 2 primary that correctly identify the winners, machine-reported vote counts were lower than the paper ones in some cases, and some machines reversed certain totals or reported zero votes for some candidates.

“The concern is that we obviously have elections in November, and we must provide the (island) not only with the assurance that the machine produces a correct result, but also that the result it produces is the same one that is reported,” Padilla said.

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1. count me sceptical that this is a 'software' problem

a scanner can incorrectly read a ballot, true - but total numbers are total numbers - and computers don't generally bounce numbers from one column to another
(or, more precisely - do it purely at random)