OH: Broken (Diebold) Memory Card Blamed in Lost Ballots (Brunner's Audit Credited with Finding Them)

[Wilms]

Broken Memory Card Blamed in Lost Ballots

Issue raises questions about the reliability of Montgomery County's electronic voting machines. (Wilms notes: Ya think?!?)

By Lynn Hulsey

Staff Writer

Thursday, January 08, 2009

DAYTON — The maker of Montgomery County's electronic voting machines is blaming a damaged memory card for the loss of five ballots on Election Day.

Board of Elections Director Steve Harsman said Premier Election Solutions' (Wilms notes: pronounced, "Diebold") preliminary report, however, does not indicate how the card became damaged or, more importantly, why the company's software did not detect the problem or correct it.

The five missing ballots from a single precinct in Trotwood on Nov. 4 were discovered only because that precinct was one counted in a special audit of electronic voting machine results ordered statewide by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

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