WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON WIRE - There's another potential problem for those touch-screen voting machines that millions of Americans used on Tuesday: It's tough to recount their votes....
The backup memory records the same data as the memory card, moreover. That means that any glitch will be recorded the same way in both memories. Some voters complained on Election Day of a software glitch called vote jumping, which occurs when a vote for one candidate jumps to that of another. If that happened, and a voter didn't correct it, the wrong vote would show up on both tallies....
Most election offices don't have the technical skill to retrieve the screen shots, and most vendors don't allow them access, claiming the software is a trade secret.
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