Under these circumstances, why doesn't the county just proceed as though the machines failed the audit, because for all intents and purposes, they have.

Cripes! Don't complain about the unicorns. That only ever results in more unicorns.

No doubt what we have here is the Comment System Engineer, who does a fine job 360 days out of the year. But one little glitch in the system, and everyone is immediately ready to piss all over him for it ...

Funny, I was just last week wondering what had become of one of my old favorites, FFF. Apparently they were just stuck in development hiatus for awhile. Welcome back!