Another check of the accuracy of Diebold/Premier voting machines has found that they fail in that department. While performing a state mandated audit Montgomery Co, Ohio, elections officials found that a memory card from one DRE voting machine read five more votes when read a second time during the audit. The county and state are investigating.
What does Diebold/Premier have to say? “We have not seen this particular condition anywhere else in Ohio or anywhere else in the country,” according to spokesman Chris Riggall. Clearly Riggall is joking. Of course they haven’t seen this condition in Ohio because Ohio has not done these audits in the past and the lack of audits across most of the rest of the country would ensure that no problems would have been found in the past.
Where there are audits that may have found this condition, the condition is ignored or just shrugged-off. What they ignore is that there is a federal law that dictates accuracy of voting systems and even the loss of these 5 ballots in a county that saw over 280,000 ballots cast is a violation of that law. …
- Featured – OH: Montgomery County – Premier/Diebold Tabulation Software Drops More Votes — This Time in Ohio
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/dieboldpremier.html - Featured – OH: Montgomery County – Board of Elections: Voting machines missed votes
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/12/12/ddn121208votingweb.html - Featured – OH: Montgomery County – Electronic votes mysteriously vanish in Ohio election
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/13/diebold_loses_votes_again/ - AZ: Yuma – Mail-only election? Lot of reasons to do it
http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/reasons_46451___article.html/idea_city.html - CA: Attorney in Ohio Election Fraud Case Offers Cooperation for Investigation into California’s Proposition 8
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/electionstrikeforce/2008/12/attorney_in_ohio_election_frau.html - CA: Council threatens to sue Napa county to restore polling places
http://www.sthelenastar.com/articles/2008/12/13/news/local/doc494070953edc7459041567.txt - MD: Allegany County – Voting machine mandate piles up costs
http://www.times-news.com/local/local_story_347232807.html - MD: Frederick County – City ‘caught off guard’ by change in election arrangements
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=83930 - MN: Minnesota’s vote: Cast into doubt
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/36093364.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUl - MN: Opinion – Commentary: Don’t turn a blind eye to electoral problems
http://www.republican-eagle.com/articles/index.cfm?id=55297§ion=Opinion - MN: Coleman asks court to intervene in rejected absentee ballot count
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/36106849.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUs - MO: Analysis: Hundreds of Missourians had votes denied
http://www.bnd.com/336/story/578782.html - OH: Cuyahoga County – Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner grants Cuyahoga County waiver from hand count of presidential election ballots
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1229160896151940.xml&coll=2 - SC: Voting changes
State should make it easier to vote, but not less secure
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20081214/ARTICLES/812141034/1128/OPINION?Title=Voting_changes - TX: Review finds no vote fraud in Dallas County
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/121408dnmetvoterfraud.31ad7c1.html
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Hey John, I was just referencing the first story…ya know.
I was an observer in Lucas County, Ohio (Tom Noe Land)for precincts Toledo 2D and Toledo 8K 11/4/08. The final tallies showed that 13 more people signed the Diebold TSX pollbooks than votes. This equals almost 5% of voters on election day that either were disenfranchised by overly complicated voting machines or votes were lost.
I have also discovered, reported and asked for explantion of missing voted in Lucas County 2006 Primary on Diebold TSX, where hundereds of votes were lost. Reviewing some of theses election results and the voter file in Toledo suburbs, there were missing votes in Waterville, Sylvania Twp, and Springfield. The official precinct results for Springfield 9, where 202 voters signed the poll books at the polls and zero votes were certified in the official results (Republican or Democrat). This was reported more than 6 month ago to the LC BOE, LC Prosecutor’s office, Ohio SOS office and Ohio’s AG office. At best, these “Rube Goldberg” devices are disenfranchise voters needlessly.