Diebold/Premier Admits Memory Card Failure On Popular Optical-Scan Voting Machines

[kster]

With Elections Impending Next Week, Company Downplays, Hides Failure Rate Will The U.S. Elections Assistance Commission Take Action?...

Guest Blogged by John Gideon, VotersUnite.Org

Saturday's Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that Diebold Election Systems, now having renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, has admitted that some of its 25,000 optical scan voting machines used in Florida and elsewhere across the nation may have a problem that causes memory card failures during elections.

As we would expect, Florida election officials and Diebold/Premier have downplayed the problem as they say that the problem does not threaten the integrity of U.S. elections. However, the Volusia County, FL Supervisor of Elections, Ann McFall, said , "I don't think votes are lost". Her office has also admitted that the problem has caused problems and adds to the cost of elections.

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has yet to take action on this matter, despite impending elections, the commission's statutory mission as the oversight body for certification of electronic voting systems their mandated mission to be a "national clearinghouse" for information on them and two GAO reports critical of their failure to do any of the above. If they follow previous patterns, they will do absolutely nothing to alert other states and counties who use the same system, about this problem.

Diebold/Premier, of course, and again, is attempting to downplay the severity of their failures in Florida and refusing to release their own information gathered on it, characterizing the true extent of the failure as "proprietary business information"...



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[aquart]

1. They don't record the votes. No biggie.

Except for being voting machines.

[kster]

3. Ann McFall, said ,

"I don't think votes are lost". ???

:wtf:

[aquart]

4. I'm laughing, but it hurts when I laugh about this.

[hobbit709]

2. Funny how no one else using memory cards

has a "high failure rate". If the camera makers, etc had those kind of failures the consumers would be raising hell.

[aquart]

5. Well, I wouldn't buy another Kingston memory card.

Five out of six of my post 9/11 shots just gone.

[Stevepol]

6. Rec #1. John Gideon is an American hero. His daily email news summary should get 5 Recs easily.

[kster]

7. An American hero indeed

thanks,
Strevepol

John Gideon :yourock:

[kster]

8. kick.nt