The BOE are LYING. Or the people who trained them on the machines LIED to BOE.

Eitehr way, someone is LYING. Listen to an engineer who can design that machine.'

There is absolutely NOTHING to "calibrate" inside a voting machine. A voting machine (computer) is an analogy to a box with black balls and white balls, each person picks a colored ball (I can hear the jokes now..) and drops it in the hole in the ballot box.

The total of each of white and black balls is ADDED then stored.

There is NOTHING to calibrate in counting integer numbers of balls in a hole, mouse clicks or in this case, I assume, touch pad or pen-on-screen inputs.

There is NOTHING in the Visual Basic code behind that counting of inputs thats calibrated. [This app is so simple it could be handled by MACHINE CODE, its an ADDER]

 

The computer behind it can probably count to several trillion, so theres no chance of inaccurate count with tens of thousands of Voters.

Second lie, this one CLEARLY told by BOE:

"Guilford County Board of Elections Director George Gilbert says the problem arises every election. It can be resolved after the machine is re-calibrated by poll workers."

That proves the machine is not only defective, or been tampered with, but they KNOW it is, as they admit "every year"

If its simply a matter of "calibration" then do it EACH DAY.

The basic lie behind this is that computers make mistakes. They do not, especially such simple ones.

The basic misconception (or another lie) is what "calibration" is. That is a correction applied to a system, circuit etc that has a variance in its operation large enough to affect the output of the system. An oven has a thermostat that must be calibrated because the oven has a huge heater and is insulated but still loses a great deal of heat, and the heating element cannot control itself, so the result is a thermostat is required to maintain oven setpoint. That thermostat (in the good old days) was calibrated especially if the oven heat could affect the thermostats setpoint. Nowadays with advanced sensors and electronics, calibrations are all but a thing of the past.

Calibration is for ANALOG systems, NOT DIGITAL COMPUTERS. A voting machine is a DIGITAL system, not an analog where the input (touch pen here to vote) is affected in any way by the stored cumulative count.