Just curious...
Ohio official sues e-voting vendor for dropped votesBy Grant Gross, IDG News Service, 08/08/2008
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has filed a lawsuit against an electronic-voting machine vendor, saying the vendor should pay damages for dropped votes in the state's March primary election.
E-voting machines from Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, dropped hundreds of votes in 11 Ohio counties during the primary election, as the machine's memory cards uploaded to vote-counting servers, Brunner's office said. Officials in Brunner's office later discovered the dropped votes in other counties after voting officials in Butler County discovered about 150 dropped votes, said Jeff Ortega, Brunner's assistant director of communications.
The votes were recovered and included in the final counts but could have easily been overlooked, Ortega said.
A Premier spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for the company's comments on the lawsuit.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/080808-ohio-official-sues-e-voting-vendor.html?inform?ap1=rcb Cause it seems like a MUCH more likely problem.
E-voting report: Several states still vulnerableBy Grant Gross, IDG News Service, 10/16/2008
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The report details which states have not taken precautions against fraud or technical errors associated with e-voting machines and other voting systems:
-- Ten states -- Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia -- received failing grades in three of four voting security areas.
-- Of the 24 states using direct recording electronic (DRE) machines, only three -- California, Indiana and Ohio -- get satisfactory grades in all four categories, the report said. Colorado, Delaware, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia have no state-mandated requirement for emergency paper ballots to be available in precincts that use voting machines, in the case of voting machine failure.
-- Nine states -- Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia -- have requirements for ballot accounting that "fall far short" of the groups' recommended best practices.
-- Eighteen states, including Florida, New York, Texas and Virginia, do not have adequate requirements in place for paper-record backups to e-voting or other nonpaper voting methods. Voter verified paper records allow states to conduct recounts of voting machine totals, supporters say.
-- Another 27 states, including New York, Michigan, Virginia and Georgia, do not have adequate provisions in place for conducting post-election audits of voting results, the report said.
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