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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 11:53 AM
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58. FLAWED election board security = keys to ballots not secured
Now comes this, the keys to the Cuyahoga vote counting room were not secured.

So we know,
A.) Ohio ballots did not have precinct marks, and
B.) the ballots were not secure. Yes, that's FLAWED!

Plus analysis reveals that ballots ended up in, or were cast in, the wrong precincts.

From the AP article:
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Outside monitor criticizes election board's security

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - CLEVELAND (AP)

The elections board in Ohio's most populous county failed to provide adequate security for the November election in terms of equipment, staffing and electronic voting, an outside monitor said.

The Cuyahoga County elections board failed to secure keys to vote-counting rooms, did not comply with state laws governing bipartisan staffing, left computer users unaccountable by allowing a shared password and experienced an unexplained cable connection to vote-counting computers, according to the critique by Cleveland State University's Center for Election Integrity.

County commissioners hired the center to review the work of the election board after a botched primary in May .........
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