Resident calls for recount in 50th District runoff

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Friday, July 7, 2006

Resident calls for recount in 50th District runoff

By: WILLIAM FINN BENNETT - Staff Writer, North (SD) County Times

SAN DIEGO ---- A registered voter living in the 50th Congressional District filed a formal request with the county registrar of voters office late Wednesday asking for a hand recount of all the ballots in the June 6 special election runoff.

Republican Brian Bilbray won the runoff contest by more than 5 percentage points and on June 13, he took the oath of office and immediately began serving as the new congressman representing the 50th District ---- a position he will hold through the end of the year. He could not be reached for comment late Thursday.

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In her letter to Registrar Mikel Haas, San Diego resident Barbara Gail Jacobson said she was making the request because, "there were widespread and profound breaches of security allowed in the administration of this election." She said that because Haas had permitted some of the voting machines to be taken home by poll workers in the days leading up to the election, "both state and federal certification of the machines were invalidated and rendered null."

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However, in an earlier interview, Haas had said there was nothing unusual about allowing the machines to be taken home and that the practice is widespread across the state. He said that registrars allow poll precinct captains to take the machines home so they will be able to set up the polling stations early on the day of the election. Haas also said that all voting machines are sealed for security and that any person who has possession of a machine must follow a strict protocol, establishing a chain of custody. Despite those security protections, critics of electronic voting machines have said they are vulnerable to hacking and fraudulent manipulation of voting results.

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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/07/08/news/top_stories/21_12_437_6_06.txt

[napi21]

1. I thank Ms, Jacovson for fining a protest, but I want to know?

If it's all electronic voting machines, how are they going to do a recount? There's nothing to do but rerun the samd amn program!

[hang a left]

2. I had a paper ballot here in my part of District 50

Marked with a black felt pen. The they are counted used Diebold tabulators.

[bullimiami]

3. why do these people always seem to think the 'laws' were written for

someone else?

Haas has both broken the law and been derelict in the duties of the office but it is allowed to stand.

[tiptoe]

4. "Critics"? How about Security Analysts?!?!

The Harri Hursti Hack and its Importance to our Nation By Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition

Malfunction And Malfeasance - A Report On The Electronic Voting Machine Debacle by Common Cause

Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuBasic Interpreter by Voting Systems Technology Assessment Advisory Board (VSTAAB)

Critical Security Issues with Diebold Optical Scan Design. The Black Box Report. SECURITY ALERT:... by Harri Hursti, for Black Box Voting, Inc

Diebold TSx Evaluation. SECURITY ALERT:...Critical Security Issues with Diebold TSx by Harri Hursti, for Black Box Voting, Inc

Diebold TSx Evaluation. Supplemental report, additional observations. SECURITY ALERT:.. by Harri Hursti, for Black Box Voting, Inc

The Machinery Of Democracy: Protecting Elections In An Electronic World -- Full Report. Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

The Machinery Of Democracy: Protecting Elections In An Electronic World -- Executive Summary. Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

Study: Fed 'Guidelines' Imperil E-Voting Security By Michael Hickins