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Sequoia Voting Systems 'loses' 11,000 Denver ballots!

by NearDenver
Sat Oct 25, 2008 at 03:05:21 PM PDT

About a week ago, the Denver Elections Division told me there is "No guarantee" their voting systems will not go down on election day. (See previous diary) Now they have announced that Sequioa Voting Systems 'lost' over 11,000 Denver mail-in ballots prior to mailing the ballots to voters and neither Sequoia nor Denver Elections Division flagged the error!! The US Postal Service flagged the error.

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Link to Channel 7 News story...http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/17802418/detail.html

More than 11,000 ballots went missing when the vendor in charge of printing the ballots, Sequoia Voting Systems, reported delivering 21,450 ballots to a Denver mail processing facility on Oct. 16, but the U.S. Postal Service said they only received 10,364 ballots that day.

Stephanie O'Malley, Denver's clerk and recorder, led an investigation by the Denver Elections Division that discovered Sequoia Voting Systems didn't prepare the mail-in ballots because of a technical problem with a data file.

This one little mistake represents over 5% of the 186,000 mail-in ballots requested in Denver!

The ballots went missing and the problem was finally reported by USPS (not by the Elections Division nor the vendor involved) and over one week after the incomplete batch of ballots were submitted for mailing. Now they have to be printed and mailed quite late to the waiting voters.

Likewise, I can report that the Parker, Colorado Campaign for Change office told me last night that there have been numerous reports of lost mail-in ballots in nearby Douglas County, Colorado.

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