Iowa Diebolds Not Sequestered Despite Known Flaws

[CornField]

From my friend at Iowa Voters blog

Iowa has not ordered the sequestering of its new Diebold touchscreen election equipment, according to John Hedgecoth, Deputy Secretary of State for Operations. So InsideBayArea.com was in error when it made that claim last week...

Hedgecoth told an independent online newspaper called The New Standard that "his office instructed elections officials in the state’s 99 counties to upload a final version of the software into their machines just before Election Day and then seal the machine with the memory card in it. 'So we are controlling both the software in the field with a final version that is decided upon by our elections division, and then we’re securing the memory card against tampering on Election Day,' he said."

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16 Iowa counties will vote on the Diebold TSx machines which have been known to be flawed for at least two years.

The counties are:

• Appanoose
  
• Clay
  
• Jackson
  
• Keokuk
  
• Lucas
  
• Mahaska
  
• Marion
  
• Mitchell
  
• Monroe
  
• Plymouth
  
• Poweshiek
  
• Union
  
• Warren
  
• Wayne
  
• Winnebago
  
• Worth
  

In addition, Fayette and Clayton county voters will also submit their votes on all DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) voting machines made by a different vendor -- ES&S -- which are known to have their own sets of issues.

In short, persons in those 16 counties above, if they are at all concerned about their vote being counted correctly (or counted at all) should vote absentee.

Here is a flyer with much more information:
http://community.marion.ia.us/voters/vote_absentee.pdf

If you live in or near any of the 16 counties listed above, please distribute this flyer.

[CornField]

1. 70 counties in Iowa are using these machines as their secondary system

The list includes Linn, Jefferson, Blackhawk, Dubuque, Sioux and Benton.

[CornField]

2. JPEG of the PDF flyer

Nope, I'm not letting this go! If necessary, I will carry on this conversation with myself from now until these stupid machines are no longer used in Iowa.