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"Bugs and Ballot Programming"
VotersUnite! Alert #9. July 16, 2004. United Voters! We have two urgent situations, and we need your help. Many of you are very busy, we know. However if you have any additional time you can devote to working toward an accurately counted national election in November, please contact us ASAP. We need researchers to find out: 1) The counties in each state that use ES&S iVotronic voting machines or ES&S Unity tabulation software — or are contemplating using them in November.
None of the appropriate groups — not the vendor, not the EAC, not the Election Center, not the NASED, not the NASS — has taken responsibility for informing these county officials of the serious, proven bugs in the software they will be using in November. This means that these counties have no idea that they need to use a 2-bug workaround developed by Doug Jones and to change their procedures to avoid other bugs.
2) The counties that have the voting machine vendors (ES&S, Diebold, Sequoia, etc) do the ballot programming for their elections.
The ballot programming determines how the software will interpret and count the touches on the screen or marks on the optical scan ballots. Know errors in past programming have caused miscounts and have handed elections, initially, to the wrong candidate. Counties need to know that having the vendors program the ballots is handing over a lot of control of the election to the vendors.
If you can help with this effort, please contact us immediately. contact1 at-sign votersunite.org. We will assign you one or more states so we can eliminate redundant effort. We will also make suggestions on how to find out this information. If you already know some of this information, please email it to contact1 at-sign votersunite.org.
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