CA: Flaw found in electronic voting machines-Deleted votes don't register on audit logs

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Flaw found in electronic voting machines
Deleted votes don't register on audit logs and could go uncounted

By Darryl R. Isherwood | Of The Morning Call
May 3, 2009

When 197 absentee votes disappeared from an electronic voting machine in California, officials were baffled. When the machine's log showed no trace of the votes -- neither cast nor erased -- they were shocked, even angry.

The company that sells the machines said the vote-counting software in the California machines was flawed and would be fixed in a newer version. Outside California, no problems involving actual reports have been reported.

But Premier Election Solutions' search for California's problem uncovered a potentially more troubling flaw in every version of the company's software, which also is used in machines in Lehigh and eight other Pennsylvania counties.

The affected machines scan paper ballots -- generally absentee votes -- and upload them to a central server.

more at:
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5voting.6882095may03,0,3174427.story