BBV - Elections official warns glitches may scramble vote auditing - ES&S

[Wonk]

(Oops, mods, I meant to post this in LBN not GD. Here's the LBN thread I just posted as well. Lock this GD one if you have to.)

Matthew Haggman
Miami Daily Business Review
05-13-2004

A scathing internal review of the iVotronic touch-screen voting machines used in Miami-Dade and Broward, Fla., counties, written by a Miami-Dade County elections official, has raised fresh doubts about how accurately the electronic machines count the vote.

The review, contained in a June 6, 2003, memo that came to light last month, concludes there is a "serious bug" in the voting machine software that results in votes potentially being lost and voting machines not being accounted for in the voting system's self-generated post-election audit.

The Miami-Dade County Commission's elections subcommittee has scheduled meetings today and Friday to discuss the issues raised in the memo.

The memo could cast a new shadow over the credibility of electronic voting as the November presidential election approaches. Electronic voting machines are coming under increasing criticism for being glitch-prone, not providing an adequate way to perform a recount in close races, and being vulnerable to computer hacking and fraud.

much more...
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1084316008117

[SharonAnn]

1. "does not accurately report or tabulate votes" is a problem

The new county elections supervisor, Constance Kaplan said "We thought the system had basic integrity in terms of how it recorded and tabulated votes," said Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, a partner at Duane Morris in Miami who chairs the coalition. "But we are dealing with a problem that is even more dramatic. We have a system with systemic problems that does not accurately report or tabulate votes."

Whoa, doggies! Let's not run off that cliff!

[RedEagle]

2. Kick!

[ParanoidPat]

3. Just more ammo to counter the "100% accurate" argument.....

.....:evilgrin: Thanks Wonk, nice find!

[RedEagle]

4. Townsend is just sure they never make a mistake...

...of course, those machines are Sequoia.

Townsend needs to go back to "Never never land."