Diebold Quietly Repaired Voting Machines

[Omaha Steve]

Diebold Quietly Repaired Voting Machines

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061027/D8L0UIJO0.html

Diebold Quietly Repaired Voting Machines

Oct 27, 7:10 AM (ET)

BALTIMORE (AP) - Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a "screen-freeze" problem the company had discovered three years earlier, according to published reports Thursday.

State Board of Elections Chairman Gilles W. Burger said Diebold's failure to fully inform board members of the repairs at the time raises questions about whether the company violated its state contracts.

"This demonstrates the level of contractor oversight that Diebold requires," Burger told The (Baltimore) Sun. "On Monday, I'm going to ask our attorneys to report back to me if there was any violation of the contract and what financial remedies are available to me."

The screen freezes prompted Diebold, a division of ATM maker Diebold Inc. (DBD), to replace motherboards on 4,700 machines in Allegany, Dorchester, Montgomery and Prince George's counties, The Washington Post reported. Those counties introduced the machines in 2004 in the first phase of Maryland's transition to a uniform electronic voting system.

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