Voting machines may have been dropping votes for last ten years
Diebold (the company's now called "Premier Election Solutions") voting machines in actual use in Ohio, Maryland, and other states for the last ten years may have been dropping votes that would only be noticed if jurisdictions crosschecked results after uploading vote tallies from memory cards to a central tallying point.
Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Election Solutions, is "confident" that elections officials through the years would have realized votes had been dropped when they crosschecked their tallies to certify final elections results and would have reloaded cards so as not to lose votes.
"We are indeed distressed that our previous analysis of this issue was in error," Premier President Dave Byrd wrote Tuesday.
As recently as May, Premier said the problem was not of its making but stemmed from anti-virus software that Ohio had installed on its machines.
Fixing the problem?
Well, "..changes to systems must go through the Election Assistance Commission, Rigall said, and take two years on average for certification and approval -- and that is apart from whatever approvals and reviews would be needed by each elections board throughout the country.."
Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Election Solutions, is "confident" that elections officials through the years would have realized votes had been dropped when they crosschecked their tallies to certify final elections results and would have reloaded cards so as not to lose votes.
"We are indeed distressed that our previous analysis of this issue was in error," Premier President Dave Byrd wrote Tuesday.
As recently as May, Premier said the problem was not of its making but stemmed from anti-virus software that Ohio had installed on its machines.
Fixing the problem?
Well, "..changes to systems must go through the Election Assistance Commission, Rigall said, and take two years on average for certification and approval -- and that is apart from whatever approvals and reviews would be needed by each elections board throughout the country.."
topics:
Politics,
Elections,
Voting Machines,
Ohio Voting Machines
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Election Science Institute first reported these errors in 2006.
Here is a link to the ESI report:
http://bocc.cuyahogacounty.us/GSC/pdf/esi_cuyahoga_final.pdf
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