Diebold machines never certified for 2002 guber. and 2004 prim. elections

[RagingInMiami]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Documents_show_Maryland_held_election_primary_0216.html

The Maryland State Board of Elections allowed Diebold Election Systems to operate its touch-screen voting machines during the state's 2002 gubernatorial election and the 2004 presidential primaries before the state agency actually certified the controversial machines, according to recently disclosed documents.

That is a violation of state law, according to Linda Schade, executive director of TrueVoteMD.org, an election integrity group.

Schade discovered the document among thousands of others she recently acquired through a lawsuit filed against the Maryland State Board of Elections in 2004. After almost two years of public records requests and attorney wrangling, she received four boxes filled with e-mail conversations, faxes and contracts between the elections office and Diebold.
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"So far, we've only gone through one box and have just started the second box," she said Wednesday. "We expect to find much more."

[Captain Hilts]

1. I voted early, absentee, on paper. nt