{"id":6613,"date":"2008-11-03T15:05:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2011-04-12T23:09:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T06:09:44","slug":"ess-op-scans-giving-different-results-each-time-same-ballots-run-through-machines-in-mi-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6613","title":{"rendered":"ES&S Op-Scans ‘Yielding Different Results Each Time Same Ballots Run Through Machines’ in MI County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) received this letter [PDF]<\/a> well over a week ago from Oakland County, MI, concerning ES&S precinct-based optical-scan systems that “yielded different results each time” the “same ballots were run through the same machines”…<\/p>\n

The issue is this – four of our communities or eight percent – reported inconsistent vote totals during their logic and accuracy testing with the ES&S machines. The same ballots, run through the same machines, yielded different results each time.
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\nES&S determined that the primary issue was dust and debris build-up on the sensors inside the M-100.
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\nUnfortunately, they [local clerks] are prohibited from performing any maintenance\/cleaning on the machines as it voids the warranties. ES&S has not performed any preventative maintenance under the state contract, since the machines were delivered three years ago.<\/div>\n

This problem, discovered during pre-election “Logic & Accuracy” testing of the systems, would hardly be the first time that ES&S has failed to deliver on maintenance contracts, adversely affecting voters and election results in the bargain. We saw many<\/i> similar problems during the 2006 primary election cycle. These precinct-based scanners are used throughout the nation, as ES&S is the nation’s largest distributor of voting systems in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The EAC received this letter a week ago, and we’re trying to learn when it was finally posted to their website. But, more importantly, as they have a mandate via the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 to serve as a “clearinghouse” for such voting system problems, has the EAC sent a warning about this issue to any other jurisdictions where the same equipment or company is used?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) received this letter [PDF] well over a week ago from Oakland County, MI, concerning ES&S precinct-based optical-scan systems that “yielded different results each time” the “same ballots were run through the same machines”… The issue is this – four of our communities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,122,6,104,348],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eac","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-hava","category-vote-by-mail","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}