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Re: Windows-based Voting Machines Had "Screen-freeze" Problems for Years

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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:36:05 -0700, Larry Qualig wrote:

>> | Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in
>> | several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a
>> | "screen-freeze" problem the company had discovered three years
>> | earlier, according to published reports Thursday.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_hi_te/voting_machines
>>
>>
>> Sounds like Windows' handling of motherboard interrupts.
> 
> Sounds more like you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
> 
> <hint>
> ---> Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in...
> </hint>
> 
> What part of "faulty hardware components" is too difficult to
> understand?

The part where you insert "hardware" which doesn't exist in the original
article?  Nor in the sentence fragment you quote above.

The part where, if there are in fact known issues between Windows and some
motherboards, Diebold should never have used those mobos - or affected
versions of Windows - in the first place?

The part where, if there are in fact known issues between Windows and some
motherboards, the question is why?

Just for starters...



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