Blackwell's Cuyahoga VVPAT Scandal - don't let it print!

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

The Cuyahoga Election Review Panel (CERP) reported a recent incident involving the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (CCBOE) in which "the SOS instructed the CCBOE not to permit the DREs to print the paper receipt.

The CCBOE accomplished that instruction by loading the paper backwards . . ." (CERP, 2006, p. 135).

Cuyahoga Election Review Panel Final Report
July 20, 2006 Page 135 of 398

6.4 Finding: Although the DRE units are designed to function only with the VVPAT
printer units properly installed, and the DRE printer could have created a paper trail
recording the votes, the SOS instructed the CCBOE not to permit the DREs to print the
paper receipt. The CCBOE accomplished that instruction by loading the paper backwards
so that the printers did not have a surface on which they could print.
The CCBOE did not agree with the SOS's decision, which it had given orally, to have
the DREs set up so they were unable to create a VVPAT.
Director Dillingham on 7/18/2006]

http://www.cuyahogavoting.org/CERP_Final_Report_20060720.pdf

[LuckyChoice]

1. We've gotta find a way

to hold people like Blackwell accountable.