Carteret may try to palm off defective Unilects on other states/victems

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Friday, August 12, 2005

County wants state verdict on voting machines

BY BEN HOGWOOD
NEWS-TIMES

BEAUFORT — The county is again requesting the State Board of Elections test the UniLect voting system in Carteret.

County commissioners proposed Monday that County Manager John Langdon make a formal proposition to the State Board of Elections to determine the reliability of the system.

Mr. Langdon mailed a letter to both the state and to new County Board of Elections Chairman Bill Henderson, asking for his board’s support in the matter.... rest of article here:

http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/headln2.htm

Note, these articles are not archived on the newspaper's website for more than a week.

[FogerRox]

1. what state is this?

[JBear]

2. North Carolina (n/t)

[FogerRox]

3. The Unilect DRE was decertified in Pa. do you have copy of the

Shamos report? And the Unliect is cerified to the 1990 standards so it is not eliglible for HAVA money-- nor can it be used in a Federal election.

http://www.nased.org/ITA%20Information/NASEDQualifiedVotingSystems12.03to7.05.pdf

http://www.nased.org/ITA%20Information/NASEDQualifiedVotingSystems12.03to7.05.pdf

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

4. Unilect part II, tested in PA by "new" examiner

Glenn Newkirk out of North Carolina, of all places.
Stay tuned for the news.


He is one of those "industry" guys.

These voting machines companies insist on you voting on their defective pieces of junk. They insist!

The good thing about Unilect is the manual edit feature that allows people to change the votes without any real audit trail.

Fun fun fun!

[FogerRox]

5. The Patriot is junk---- not HAVA compliant

one of the worst DREs