50% of Voting Machines Flawed in Sequoia, Ny
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New York state is in the process of replacing its lever voting machines with new voting equipment, but the state revealed recently that it has
found problems with 50 percent of the roughly 1,500 ImageCast optical-scan machines (shown in the video above) that Sequoia Voting Systems has
delivered to the state so far -- machines that are slated to be used by dozens of counties in the state's September 9 primary and November 4
presidential election.
In Nassau County alone, the largest voting district outside of New York City, officials found problems with 85 percent of the 240 ImageCast
machines it received so far -- problems that the county characterized in a letter as "substantial operational flaws that render them unusable or that
require major repairs."
Here's an intresting tidbit of information.
New York doesn't have a choice about using the machines this year. The state was sued by the Department of Justice for failing to meet a federal
deadline for having accessible voting machines in place. The Help America Vote Act passed in 2002 requires every voting precinct to provide at least
one accessible voting machine for disabled voters by 2006. New York is just now getting the machines in place.
I wonder if the Department of Justice required New Yourk to use this vendor?
After the testing is completed, a tamper-evident seal is placed on the machines and they're passed back to the vendor representative who is
responsible for shipping off the machines to counties.
This creates chain-of-custody concerns that Biamonte says are exacerbated by the fact that when he received his machines in Nassau County, a number of
the tamper-evident seals on them were cracked.
Hmmmm...Tamper seals cracked, 50% of them don't work properly. Pretty fishy don't you think.
"How do we know this wasn't tampered with?" he said.
Indeed, how do we know they weren't tampered with.
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