{"id":1645,"date":"2005-07-29T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2006-11-25T23:00:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T07:00:48","slug":"cas-republican-sec-of-state-rejects-diebold-voting-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"CA’s Republican Sec. of State REJECTS Diebold Voting Machines!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great news<\/a> from today’s Oakland Tribune<\/i>! California, the country’s largest voting “market” rejects<\/i> Diebold. Again…And hopefully for the last time…<\/p>\n

After possibly the most extensive testing ever on a voting system, California has rejected Diebold’s flagship electronic voting machine because of printer jams and screen freezes, sending local elections officials scrambling for other means of voting.<\/p>\n

“There was a failure rate of about 10 percent, and that’s not good enough for the voters of California and not good enough for me,” Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said.
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\n“We certainly can’t take any kind of risk like that with this kind of device on California voters,” McPherson said. <\/p>\n

Rejection of the TSx by California, the nation’s largest voting-system market, could influence local elections officials from Utah, Mississippi and Ohio, home of Diebold corporate headquarters, where dozens of counties are poised to purchase the latest Diebold touch screens.<\/p>\n

State elections officials in Ohio say they still have confidence in the machines.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely,” said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office.<\/b>
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\nMcPherson denied approval of the TSx after a series of failed tests, culminating in a massive, mock election conducted on 96 of the machines in a San Joaquin County warehouse. San Joaquin is one of three California counties that purchased a total of 13,000 TSx machines in 2003 for more than $40 million and have paid to warehouse them ever since.
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\nElections officials and voting activists said they had never heard of more extensive testing for a single voting system, outside of an actual election.
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\nOrdinarily, states and the National Association of State Elections Directors approve voting systems after labs hired by the manufacturers perform tests on a handful of machines. The Diebold TSx managed to get through those tests ? twice. But none of the testing standards addresses printers on electronic voting machines, even though more than 20 states either require a so-called paper trail or are debating such a requirement. <\/p>\n

For years, voters have reported frozen screens and other glitches in the polling place. <\/p>\n

“It’s always been the voters’ word against election officials’ and the vendors’,” Alexander said. “Now we have real proof right before the eyes of state elections officials.”<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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