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S. Election Assistance Commission's failures do not stand alone. The Secretaries of State in these 14 states and the Supervisors of Elections in every county where the machines were used had 4 years to uncover discrepancies and press Diebold/Premier to get it right.
Palm Beach County, Florida, has twice flipped the winner in a local judicial race and revealed grave problems in the county's election infrastructure, including thousands of misplaced ballots and vote tabulation machines that are literally unable to produce the same results twice.
mysterious technological failures raises new and troubling questions about the county that played a crucial role in the 2000 presidential election debacle, and is one of a handful of counties considered pivotal in the upcoming presidential election. Voting advocates are fearful that problems here -- and perhaps in other election hot spots -- could trigger a replay of the disputed 2000 election. Continued. Election 2008. New machines, new election, and Sarasota's still can't count our votes. Another troubling election in Sarasota ¦and Hillsborough and Manatee and Palm Beach and Broward and . . . A recap of this Tuesday's election in Florida sounds eerily familiar. Sarasota can't count votes. Only this time there's paper to prove it. And this time they can't blame the voters for Florida's failed voting systems. Although the cause of the failure is different as are the voting machines. The recovery is vastly different. This time instead of denying the problem exists and holding out for court fisticuffs, they scooped up our paper ballots and simply counted them by hand. Problem solved? No. In at least three Florida counties, Election Supervisors responded to their voting machine failures with all the seriousness and responsibility of a third grader's, "The dog ate my homework [that Daddy Diebold did]." ... Florida 2008 Primary 08/29/2008
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ES&S Acquires Premier Election Solutions This is just wrong on so many levels 9/3/2009 When Voting News reported on ES&S acquiring Premier Election Solutions, they commented, “Monopoly anyone?” But this acquisition is just wrong on so many levels. Yes, the monopoly. ES&S's website boasts that ES&S voting systems counted approximately 50% of the votes in the last four major elections. 67 million registered voters vote on ES&S machines. 97K iVotronic touch screens are installed in 20 states and approximately 30K scanner tabulators are installed in 43 states and worldwide. While Premier Election Solutions (Diebold) Global Election Management System (GEMS) is used in more than 1,000 election environments throughout North America. While the acquisition of Premier indeed adds munitions to ES&S's arsenal. The monopoly is but a part of the troubling equation. Continued. . .
DIEBOLD FINDS ELECTION DIVISION BUYER; ES&S TO CONTROL MOST U.S. ELECTIONS By Brad Friedman on 9/3/2009 Bargain-basement sale price; Anti-trust complaints to be filed; Dreadful history of failure by both companies Merger causes concern among Election Integrity experts... The world's largest corporate e-voting supplier is about to become even larger. Today, TX-based Premier Election Solutions, the beleaguered and oft-failed voting division of OH-based parent company Diebold, Inc., announced they have been purchased by oft- failed e-voting goliath Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S). The move, if allowed to stand, would "consolidate most U.S. voting under one privately held manufacturer," according to one election watchdog who has announced plans to file an anti-trust complaint concerning the sale with the Department of Justice. Continued at BradBlog.
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| Georgia residents challenge voting machines, Macon.com, 07/13/09 By GREG BLUESTEIN - Associated Press Writer ATLANTA -- A group of frustrated Georgia residents is challenging the state's touch-screen voting system, telling the state's top court Monday that there's no way to ensure each ballot cast is recorded and tabulated properly. The lawsuit targets the electronic voting system adopted in 2002 in the aftermath of the Florida voting debacle that made Georgia the first in the nation to have uniform touch-screen voting statewide . . .
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