Reply #12: Poll workers to verify voting machine information

[Melissa G]

Poll workers to verify voting machine information
By George Bennett

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Sunday, March 05, 2006

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Beginning in the fall, precinct paperwork will include a space for poll workers to write down the date and time as it appears on electronic voting machines at the beginning and end of election day. That's an attempt to allay tampering fears fanned by Harris at a recent public meeting.


Harris, a nationally known critic of paperless voting who founded the group Black Box Voting, told the county's Elections Technology Advisory Committee on Feb. 23 that odd dates on event logs from about 40 of the county's approximately 4,300 voting machines in the 2004 election raised "insider tampering" concerns.

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Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson, who capitalized on concerns about electronic voting to win office in 2004, says he doesn't see anything nefarious in the incorrect dates on about 1 percent of machines. But he pledged to look into the matter.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2006/03/05/s1c_voting_0305.html