This past March, a Butler Co Ohio election official was examining the database from the just held primary. The official found a problem he was not looking for. It seems that two memory cards had not been downloaded even though the system had reported that it was. 150 votes were affected. That revelation led to an inspection of the system and a pronouncement by Premier/Diebold that there was a problem with the interactivity between the GEMS software and anti-virus software. This problem has led to a lawsuit and counter-suit. Recently SoS staff and Premier/Diebold staff went to Butler Co to look closer at the software in question. Today it was announced that Premier has admitted that their GEMS software has a programming error and that this error goes back over ten years worth of software. Of course, they make the highly implausible claim that no votes were lost during all that time. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner also has said that no votes were lost in Ohio. However, Brunner ignores the fact that the problem has been on the machines for years and just because they found the problem in March does not mean the problem did not affect elections in previous years….
- Featured – National: Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/21/ohio_voting_machines_contained.html - National: Company acknowledges voting machine error
http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=688274&c=y - National: VIDEO: Lou Dobbs Covers VotersUnite’s Report on Private Vendors Undermining Our Public Elections
https://bradblog.com/?p=6301 - National: Report: Running of elections being outsourced to private companies
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_Many_elections_outsourced_to_private_0821.html - National: States rush to dump touch-screen voting systems
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080820-states-rush-to-dump-touchscreen-voting-systems.html - National: Vote fraud, crumbling democracy’s bedrock
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20080822_Vote_fraud__crumbling_democracy_s_bedrock.html - AL: ACLU defends voting rights for ex-felon in Alabama
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_5131.shtml - CO: Arapahoe County – ArapCo voting machines forced into an early retirement
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=8&ArticleID=20163 - CT: Editorial – Getting ready: Connecticut will audit local primary results
http://www.newstimes.com/ci_10260363 - IA: Scott County Auditor’s office leads training
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/08/20/news/local/doc48aceea1507c5648465928.txt - MA: Marlborough – City looks to improve voting for disabled residents
http://www.communityadvocate.com/news/2008/0822/front_page/050.html - NC: Edgecombe County – Elections board cautious on extra voting site
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/08/21/edgeelections.html - NV: Nye County – DeCanio questions primary vote
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2008/Aug-20-Wed-2008/news/23419235.html - OH: Ohio Secretary of State Ends Voting Machine ‘Sleepovers’
https://bradblog.com/?p=6298 - OH: Company acknowledges Ohio voting machine error
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hM24D2P_dBmIDGu_u_mPKthDHpGQD92MRTTG0 - OH: E-Vote: Ohio Counties Move To Secure Voting Machine Delivery
http://www.govtech.com/gt/392792?topic=117673 - OH: Auglaize County – Location change to secure votes
http://www.wapakdailynews.com/content/view/68858/1/ - OH: Cuyahoga elections to present new voting system Nov. 4
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/08/cuyahoga_elections_to_present.html - PA: Clarion County – County’s league of women voters seeks incidents of voting problems
http://www2.theclarionnews.com/General_News/74111.shtml - WV: Editorial – Panic and haste make for waste
http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/Editorials/200808210272
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