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ES & S ivotronic touchscreen vote flips occuring , not maintaining calibration thru entire election day
Submitted by clif west on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 21:09.The ES & S ivotronic touchscreen voting machine is used in Jefferson County without a voter verified paper audit trial and with a voter verified paper audit trial, in Mesa County.
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'Vote flipping' was not unexpected
4/10/2009
'Vote flipping' was not unexpected
By DUANE SCHRAG
Salina Journal
Brad Blog Confronts Misleading Statements by Nancy Doty
Submitted by clif west on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 10:00.Blogged by Brad Friedman on 3/22/2009 1:43PM
The 'Baghdad Bobs' of the E-Voting Industry
"I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad."
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka "Baghdad Bob"),
Iraqi Information Minister, April 2003
Sequoia Edge touchscreen used in Arapahoe County, was Decertified by California, 2007
Submitted by clif west on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 13:28.Arapaho County Clerk, Nancy Doty, demands to continue using the defective Sequoia Edge touchscreen,without a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail, although the entire Sequoia voting system was decertified, by California, in 2007, after the thorough top to bottom review, by the University of California.
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/ttbr/sequoia_102507.pdf
All Diebold GEMS Audit Logs Fail to Record Ballot Deletions
Submitted by clif west on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 10:33.Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buscher should begin a thorough investigation of the Diebold [name changed to Premeir, due to adverse publicity] GEMS vote tabulation systems used in El Paso, Teller, Adams, Larimer, Weld, Broomfield, Pitkin, and Laplata counties.
Five Kentucky Election Officials Arrested for Election Fraud Using ES & S ivotronic touchscreen
Submitted by clif west on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 09:54.Blogged by Brad Friedman on 3/19/2009 4:59PM
KY Election Officials Arrested, Charged With 'Changing Votes at E-Voting Machines'
Circuit court judge, county clerk, and election officials among eight indicted for gaming elections in 2002, 2004, 2006
County uses popular, unverifiable ES&S touch-screen voting systems...
[Now updated at bottom with details from the indictments.]
Inferior cardstock and missaligned punchcard ballots produced by Sequoia sabotaged 2000 Florida election
Submitted by clif west on Thu, 03/19/2009 - 12:23.Interview of former Sequoia employees by Dan Rather
Sequoia Edge Touchscreen Flipped Oprah's Vote for Obama, in Illinois
Submitted by clif west on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 23:12.Oprah Winfrey's vote for Obama flipped on a Sequoia Edge touchscreen DRE, similar to those used in Arapahoe County
Oprah voted yesterday, or did she?
Diebold Admits VOTES CAN BE DELETED ON EVERY VERSION OF DIEBOLD SOFTWARE
Submitted by clif west on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 11:20.Diebold Admits Systemic Audit Log Failure; State Vows Inquiry
By Kim Zetter March 17, 2009 | 6:29:04 PMCategories: E-Voting
COMPUTERIZED VOTING - LITIGATION FROM THE 2006 ELECTION AND ITS AFTERMATH
Submitted by clif west on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 17:36.This Powerpoint presentation by Paul Hultin, ESQ, of Wheeler, Trigg and Kennedy, exposes some weaknesses of electronic voting systems and some of the political corruption they resulted from. Mr. Hultin was lead counsel for plaintiffs in the 2006 Conroy v Dennis US District Court Case. Mr. Hultin also served as one of eleven members of the Colorado Election Reform Commission.
Arapahoe County Clerk Nancy Doty is part of a vocal minority
Submitted by clif west on Mon, 03/16/2009 - 11:11.Majority concerned about votes counted in secret
Nancy Doty misrepresented that election integrity activists are a vocal minority.
