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Daily Voting News For June 22, 2008
Daily Voting News For June 22, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Recently in this space I reported that a report from the Ohio SoS to the Governor and Legislature glossed over the fact that, among other issues, four of eleven counties who did hand-count audits found discrepancies and had to change the results of their certified elections based on the audit results. Three of those counties were DRE counties and the vvpat paper tapes were the source of the hand-count. Why was there a difference in the count of the vvpats as compared to the count of the machines? If the vvpats cannot be hand-counted accurately then why are some satisfied that DREs with a vvpat are good enough? If the vvpat count was accurate then why are some satisfied with the use of DREs that are flawed? ...
Cost to replace touch screens in Johnson County is $1.67M; lease would be about $335,000 LINK
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