Diebold takes blame for bad voting cards (Kern County, CA)

[GuvWurld]

http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/56858.html

Diebold takes blame for bad voting cards
BY JAMES BURGER, Californian staff writer
e-mail: [e-mail] | Tuesday, Jun 13 2006 10:55 PM

Last Updated: Tuesday, Jun 13 2006 10:59 PM

The company that sold Kern County its $5 million touch-screen voting machines took full responsibility Tuesday for last week's troubled local election.

Diebold Election Systems Inc. officials told Kern County supervisors that bad voting cards and bad communication caused voters to be turned away from many Kern polls on June 6.

A recent Diebold security software upgrade turned voting cards the county bought in 2004 into useless sheets of plastic.

And Diebold officials didn't tell the county it needed to "clear" the cards so they could be used by the new software.

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[xxqqqzme]

1. well thank bruce mcpherson

our very own APPOINTED rethug SoS for illegally certifying diebold machines.


rat bastard

[Betsy Ross]

2. Work for Debra Bowen's election to SoS.

She is our best hope to getting a reliable, accountable voting system.

[xxqqqzme]

4. I did and still do

Volunteer w/ precinctcaptains.org and work your precinct. It is how we take our state back.

[unc70]

3. Was updated software "certified"?

Anyone know the certification status of the updated software?

[Wilms]

5. Which Update? n/t

[unc70]

6. "security upgrade" in original post n/t

[Wilms]

7. Thanks.

But I couldn't log into the article for more detail.

I'm wondering when this "recent" upgrade was done.