Reply #22: A couple things

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First a little primer

Waukesha - Computer glitches, inoperable equipment and other problems troubled Tuesday's primary balloting in Waukesha County, resulting in one candidate mistakenly being posted as winner of a race only later to be declared the loser. The problems also prevented the county from posting final results of races until the early morning hours of Wednesday, and kept the county from posting results online.


In Waukesha County, problems with touch-screen equipment were among a host of snafus.Christine Lufter, who lost a Republican primary in the 97th Assembly District, said Wednesday that she would not likely challenge the outcome, although she was still trying to sort out what happened."There was obviously a huge problem," she said. "And why it affected the 97th race more than any other is confusing."

Computer monitors at the county clerk's office late Tuesday briefly showed Lufter winning her race, as county officials scrambled to correct flawed returns from the City of Waukesha. Final results later showed Lufter losing to fellow Republican Bill Kramer by a significant margin. County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said some returns from the City of Waukesha inexplicably had data recorded in the wrong column, which momentarily skewed results.

http://solidaritywisconsin.com/content/2006-waukesha-county-election-flaws-kept-results-line-one-loser-briefly-declared-winner-0






Approved Vendors

1. Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
2. Election Systems & Software (ES&S).
3. Populex Corporation.
4. Sequoia Voting Systems.
5. Vote-PAD*.
6. Voting Technologies International (VTI).

Voting Equipment Use by Wisconsin Municipality
http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting/voting-equipment/voting-equipment-use

Wisconsin law, §5.91(18), Wis. Stats., requires that all direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems produce a complete, permanent paper record showing all votes cast by the elector. The voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) is considered the official ballot and is to be used in a recount of each vote cast by the elector.



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An older optical scan voting system still in wide use the Optech Eagle. These machines were originally manufactured by Business Records Corp. (BRC), which was acquired by American Information Systems (AIS) in 1997, at which time AIS changed its name to Election Systems & Software (ES&S). Due to an SEC antitrust action, sales and distribution of the Optech Eagle machines was split up between ES&S and another vendor, Sequoia Voting Systems. Therefore you will see the Optech Eagle machines under both Sequoia and ES&S trade names.


The Sequoia AVC Edge is a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine with a voter-verified paper audit trail





CITY BROOKFIELD Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)
CITY

DELAFIELD Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)
CITY

MUSKEGO Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

CITY NEW BERLIN Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

CITY OCONOMOWOC Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

CITY PEWAUKEE Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

CITY WAUKESHA Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

TOWN BROOKFIELD Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

TOWN DELAFIELD Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

TOWN EAGLE Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

TOWN GENESEE Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)
TOWN
LISBON Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)
TOWN
MERTON Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)
TOWN
MUKWONAGO Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)
TOWN

OCONOMOWOC Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)
TOWN OTTAWA Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

TOWN SUMMIT Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

TOWN VERNON Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)
TOWN

WAUKESHA Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

VILLAGE BIG BEND Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

VILLAGE BUTLER Optical Scan ES&S Eagle

VILLAGE LANNON Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

VILLAGE MENOMONEE FALLS Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no ES&S AutoMARK
modem)

VILLAGE MERTON Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

VILLAGE NASHOTAH Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

VILLAGE NORTH PRAIRIE Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

VILLAGE OCONOMOWOC LAKE Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24

VILLAGE PEWAUKEE Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

VILLAGE SUSSEX Optical Scan ES&S Eagle (w/ modem & no SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24
modem)

VILLAGE WALES Optical Scan ES&S Eagle w/ modem SEQ-AVC Edge II 5.0.24