SECUR> E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballot

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Election Systems and Software (ES&S) reports that problems in the firmware
of its iVotronic touch-screen voting machines led to 436 lost absentee
ballots in North Carolina's 2002 general elections. Votes were also lost
during a special election in Florida in January 2004. The flaw made the
machines think their memory was full and display an error message, however,
the message displayed so quickly, voters did not realize their votes were
not recorded. ES&S spokeswoman Meghan McCormick says the votes were
tabulated correctly on voting day, and did not effect the outcome of the
election. ES&S found the flaw in Jackson County in October 2002 and fixed
it, but did not report it to Wayne County, where the machines were also
deployed. When the voting irregularity was noticed, Wayne County called in
ES&S technician to recover an audit trail; data from the machines had to be
shipped on a PC card to ES&S central offices to be examined. Such problems
have lead many citizens to call for machines that produce a voter-verified
paper trail to protect against miscast ballots and fraud.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62206,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1




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