Article: 'Daily Voting News' For August 21, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org This past March, a Butler Co Ohio election official was examining the database from the just held primary. The official found a problem he was not looking for. It seems that two memory cards had not been downloaded even though the system had reported that it was. 150 votes were affected. That revelation led to an inspection of the system and a pronouncement by Premier/Diebold that there was a problem with the interactivity between the GEMS software and anti-virus software. This problem has led to a lawsuit and counter-suit. Recently SoS staff and Premier/Diebold staff went to Butler Co to look closer at the software in question. Today it was announced that Premier has admitted that their GEMS software has a programming error and that this error goes back over ten years worth of software. Of course, they make the highly implausible claim that no votes were lost during all that time. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner also has said that no votes were lost in Ohio. However, Brunner ignores the fact that the problem has been on the machines for years and just because they found the problem in March does not mean the problem did not affect elections in previous years....

Featured - National: Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes LINK

National: Company acknowledges voting machine error LINK

National: VIDEO: Lou Dobbs Covers VotersUnite's Report on Private Vendors Undermining Our Public Elections LINK

National: Report: Running of elections being outsourced to private companies LINK

National: States rush to dump touch-screen voting systems LINK

National: Vote fraud, crumbling democracy's bedrock LINK

AL: ACLU defends voting rights for ex-felon in Alabama LINK

CO: Arapahoe County - ArapCo voting machines forced into an early retirement LINK

CT: Editorial - Getting ready: Connecticut will audit local primary results LINK

IA: Scott County Auditor's office leads training LINK

MA: Marlborough - City looks to improve voting for disabled residents LINK

NC: Edgecombe County - Elections board cautious on extra voting site LINK

NV: Nye County - DeCanio questions primary vote LINK

OH: Ohio Secretary of State Ends Voting Machine 'Sleepovers' LINK

OH: Company acknowledges Ohio voting machine error LINK

OH: E-Vote: Ohio Counties Move To Secure Voting Machine Delivery LINK

OH: Auglaize County - Location change to secure votes LINK

OH: Cuyahoga elections to present new voting system Nov. 4 LINK

PA: Clarion County - County's league of women voters seeks incidents of voting problems LINK

WV: Editorial - Panic and haste make for waste LINK

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