Reply #7: OAKLAND - Marijuana backers sue over recount

[dzika]

(What has your eVote machine been smoking?)


Saturday, January 1, 2005


OAKLAND
Marijuana backers sue over recount
Patrick Hoge



Medical marijuana activists have sued the Alameda County registrar of voters over the handling of a recount of a closely contested Berkeley ballot measure that would have eased restrictions on medical marijuana sales and possession.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday, seeks access to backup data from individual electronic voting machines, as well as audit logs of activity on the machines, logic and accuracy test results and chain-of-custody records concerning electronic vote records.

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County Registrar Bradley Clark ruled that the only electronic data to be used in the recount would come from memory cards used to collect data from the individual voting machines. Those cards can provide vote totals or generate prints of individual ballot images for counting by hand. Clark's office also is recounting all paper absentee and provisional ballots by hand. Results are expected next week.

Americans for Safe Access, a pro-medical marijuana group that is the lead plaintiff, calls the county's method for recounting electronic votes a "reprinting'' and insists that without the backup data it is impossible to know whether error or fraud occurred.

Link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/01/BABADIGEST3.DTL