Two
elections so far this year and Cuyahoga Co Ohio is 0-2 in
successful recounts. Both recounts were in small municipal
elections and in both cases the recounted voter verified
paper trail (vvpat) votes failed to match the official
machine results. Why? Mistakes in counting? Not according
to the county. The problem is that the vvpats are at times
difficult and sometimes impossible to read. These vvpats
along with audits of those vvpat ballots are supposed to be
an acceptable solution to the problems with DREs. Cuyahoga
Co is now concerned that they may have a close county-wide
race that will require many days of trying to decipher what
is on the vvpat tapes. Remember that in Ohio the vvpat is
the vote of record in an audit so any damaged or unreadable
ballots may be lost ballots and they could affect the
results of an election. This, again, is proof that adding a
vvpat printer to a DRE is like adding a seat belt to a
Pinto. Let’s “Rage Against The Machines” and recall
them all....
NAtional:
Diebold/Premier Admits Memory Card Failure On Popular
Optical-Scan Voting Machines With Elections Impending Next
Week, Company Downplays, Hides Failure Rate LINK
National: TIME:
The 'Stampede Away from Touch-Screen' LINK
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California:
Monterey County - Pushing paper ballot envelope Electronics
will be used only for counting LINK
Connecticut:
Longing For The Certainty Of Levers, Curtain LINK
Florida: Sarasota
County - Voting group plans to appeal ruling Appeals court
struck down extra audits; state Supreme Court is next LINK
Virginia:
Botetourt County voters to get write-in help Voting involves
typing the candidates' names using a touch-screen keypad.
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