August 17, 2010 in News

State election computers back up

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An overwhelming number of contested races for precinct committee officers caused a crash of the state’s main election computer, delaying tabulation of the U.S. Senate and multi-county congressional district races, officials said tonight. Service has since been restored, and updated numbers are being posted at www.vote.wa.gov.

The Secretary of State’s office said it worked with Microsoft to get the problem fixed.

Spokane, like most counties, uses the state computer system to report vote counts. Spokane County Auditor Vicki Dalton said tonight that her staff has been unable to upload vote counts to the state computer.

Dalton said Spokane County posted a PDF file of the county vote totals and is continuing to try uploading to the state computers.

Four comments on this story so far. Add yours!

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  misjustice on August 17 at 9:34 p.m.

  Bill Gates is the devil! ; )

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  misjustice on August 17 at 10:33 p.m.

  How it is Dalton’s fault that the STATE computer system is down, preventing staff from uploading information to the down system?

  http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/spokane/Pages/Home.aspx

  The above link is for the Spokane County Elections page. There are two Election Results pages, one is PDF (as stated in the article). Not sure when the info was last updated…

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  misjustice on August 17 at 10:36 p.m.

  Hey, where’s that other commentor’s post? The one about Vicki Dalton?

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  mmspowaus on August 18 at 10:21 a.m.

  Well, King, Pend Orielle, Lincoln, Snohomish etc ALL had their info on the web at 8:15pm on Tuesday….I checked….(I was watching results of the App. Court race and Clint Didier…)

  Dalton did not have the information posted until after 9:30 pm .(by the time I went to bed)

  Hmmmmm the above mentioned counties had their info sent to the State,

  Dalton did not….

  There are TWO major elections each year. THERE IS NO EXCUSE for failure….

  Dalton and her staff are PAID with TAX DOLLARS to do the job and to do it right…like other County auditors in this state.

  Excuses are another reason to seek a new Auditor in Spokane County….She has been in office to long…(3 terms)

  In the private sector, Daltons performance would be grounds for dismissal.

  We will have this chance in November…