Two more cases of "phantom votes" from your friends at ES&S and Sequoia.

[Stevepol]

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EXTRA VOTES HAUNT TWO RECENT ELECTIONS, RUN BY TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES, IN TWO DIFFERENT PLACES


Two stories of thousands of "phantom votes" being added to election result totals by electronic voting system were in the news over the past couple of days.

One is some news in the older story of 1,500 votes added to a precinct's results in D.C.'s primary election last September. The maker of the failed voting system, Sequoia Voting Systems, Inc., originally tried to blame "static electricity" and then "human error" for the failure. But as the D.C. city council was having none of it, the company has now agreed to allow an independent inspection of their hardware and software, in order to avoid yet another expensive court battle for the beleaguered company.

The other story concerns nearly 5,000 "phantom" ballots added by the ES&S AutoMark optical-scan system used in last week's Rapid City (Pennington County), South Dakota city council race, for some still unknown reason, currently chalked up for now to "software glitch". The discovery of the failure led to a change in the originally reported election results.





link: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7214

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. The South Dakota case is very similiar to a case in NC in 06:

this is very similar to a situation in Macon County in '06;
which was misconfigured Unity software.

Some quick math: 5,613 (actual votes) - 4,875 (extra votes) = 738.
How many absentee and/or early votes were cast?

738?

[Wednesdays]

2. K&R

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