Reply #44: GREAT! Good scoop! Here's a related story from yestreday [View All]

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(And, as you might have guessed, Diebold sees no problem with this and blames poor training of Election workers)

Problems Found in Ohio Computer Voting

Listen to this story...(at link above)
by Pam Fessler

All Things Considered, September 13, 2006 · A report finds several bugs in the new voting system in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The report says that poll workers were poorly trained in monitoring the new touch-screen voting machines, and there were discrepancies between the new paper-ballot backups and the votes recorded by the machines.

In the first thorough study of a paper-backed system -- often seen as an answer to concerns about touch-screen voting -- the nonpartisan Election Science Intistute found that about 10 percent of the paper ballots sampled were uncountable. And in Ohio, that's a big problem: The paper ballot is the official ballot if there's a recount....

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...In at least one instance, thermal paper was fed into the machine backward. The result was that, despite the printer working properly, nothing appeared on the sheets. Elsewhere, paper jammed, creating areas in which votes were written over one another.

The machine manufacturer, Diebold Election Systems, has dismissed the ESI report as "severely flawed" and says the company stands by it's equipment....

(more and the audio at link) <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6069712>