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DEL.ICIO.USComputer woes slow DeKalb results
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The hottest race of Tuesday’s runoff was the last to be counted because of computer problems in DeKalb County that stalled the tabulation until late into the night, according to the Secretary of State’s office.
Chris Riggall, a spokesman for the Secretary of State’s office, said DeKalb County officials were having trouble uploading the cards that contained vote totals from each of the 135 DeKalb County precincts in the 4th district.
“They were having considerable problems,” Riggall said about 9:30 p.m.
Unlike many other counties, Riggall said DeKalb County officials don’t transmit results quickly from precincts. Officials instead carry the cards containing each precinct’s results to the main election office, where they are counted, Riggall said.
Tuesday night they were having trouble loading the results into the computers, he said.
Because of that, the outcome of the 4th congressional race between incumbent Cynthia McKiinney and former DeKalb County Commissioner Hank Johnson was unknown Tuesday evening, while many statewide races were all but decided by 9:30 p.m. The first DeKalb County results weren’t reported by the Secretary of State until about 9:45 p.m.
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