Can Dem Party lawyers join Lehto - Hoffman/Sequoia Wash State suit?

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Can Dem Party lawyers join Lehto - Hoffman/Sequoia Wash State suit?

Seattle Weekly: "The Minus Touch" (Sequoia machines)

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0504/050126_news_snohomish.php

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"More than 2.7 million paper votes statewide were recounted by optical-reader machine and by hand, ultimately giving Democrat Christine Gregoire a hairbreadth 129-vote victory. But the 106,000 touch-screen ballots—constituting almost 4 percent of the state vote—were simply re-totaled without review and added in. A new study questions the validity of many of those touch-screen votes, suggesting that Gregoire should have beaten Republican Dino Rossi in the initial tally of ballots on Election Day. Rossi was on top at that point by 261 votes, before a final hand recount gave the election to Gregoire."

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"Lehto and Hoffman theorize that computers might also have automatically assigned under-votes—when a voter fails to choose one candidate or another—to a candidate not of their choosing, and they say a forensic analysis or audit of the machines' programming could settle that and other claims. The county and the machine maker, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., won't allow that. Lehto says he might sue."

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1. Maybe Dem lawyers can join the PA vs BBV SUIT?????

Meeting set with vote machine company (PA) Litigation?


Meeting set with vote machine company

Published: Wed, Jan 26, 2005

The committee met Tuesday with legal counsel to discuss possible litigation.

MERCER, Pa. — The Independent Election Committee of Mercer County has decided to delay issuing its final report for a week to allow it to meet with the president of Unilect.

Members agreed Tuesday that they cannot make a recommendation on future use of the computerized voting machines until they discuss the problems that occurred in the Nov. 2 general election with Jack Gerbel, president of the California company that sold the county the voting machines.

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On Tuesday, committee members held a half-hour private session with county Solicitor Mark Longietti to discuss the county's 2001 purchase agreement with Unilect. The private session was to discuss potential strategy for litigation against Unilect. Members have previously discussed options such as forcing Unilect to revamp the machines to avoid future problems. At first it was believed that the only problem was a coding error which rendered machines inoperable in 12 precincts Election Day.

However, the committee has since discovered that even precincts that experienced no difficulties had a high-enough undervote to indicate problems with their machines. Undervotes are ballots for which no votes were recorded for president. Percentages in Mercer County were significantly higher than average.

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