Originally Allegheney County, PA had hoped to use Diebold’s electronic voting machines — until they found out that Diebold machines were hackable.
Then they decided instead to go with Sequoia Voting Systems instead — until they found out that their machines are hackable too.
Yesterday, with just six weeks left before their primary election, and against the wishes of Allegheny County’s Chief Executive who felt it was safer to stay with their old lever systems, Allegheny decided instead to go with new ES&S touch-screen voting machines.
ES&S, of course, is the company whose machines failed all over Texas during the March 7th primary in Texas, leading to state-wide election contest by a Republican former Supreme Court Justice. ES&S saw more than 30% of their memory cards fail in recent pre-election tests in Summit County, OH, more than 1000 cards fail in NC, and their machines failed to work completely this week as early voting began in Indiana.
Good luck with the new ES&S voting machines Allegheny County, PA!
Holy hell on earth!!
Don’t these people have anyone to RESEARCH this stuff BEFORE they spend millions on these pieces of crap????
Somebody PLEEEEASE send ’em the Bradblog URL, tell them it’s required reading for ANYONE who has ANYTHING to do with elections in this country!!
What’s the law regarding passing out literature on election day?
I think someone should pass out a short flier that says something like – "Disclaimer – Be aware that your vote may or may not count in this election. The machines upon which you are about to cast your vote have a history of losing votes, recording votes to the wrong candidate, and adding more votes than there are voters."
KestrelBrighteyes #2
Hmmmm, might be time to stock up on paper and ink for my printer!
(Used it all up printing copies of the Vevelt Revolution Impeach Bush posters to pass out.)
[link opens MS Word document]
County executive Dan Onorato DOES want the iVotronic. He is claiming unilateral power to decide what machine is purchased regardless of what his fellow election board members want.
DanO says that he doesn’t want new machines and he would prefer to keep the levers, but the truth is that HE — Dan Onorato — is the one who CHOSE the iVotronic for Allegheny County.