Voting Machine Mess-up Du Jour (Displayed 07/26/04)
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Riverside County, California. November, 2000.
Sequoia AVC Edge paperless voting machine.
Electronic voting machine malfunction:*
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...during the 2000 presidential election, a computer from Sequoia began dropping touch-screen ballots from the vote tally. A Sequoia salesman who was on hand intervened and fixed the problem.
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* Electronic voting's hidden perils.
Mercury News. February 1, 2004. By Elise Ackerman.
See: Sequoia in the News
... the system we have for testing and certifying
voting equipment in this country
is not only broken, but is virtually nonexistent.
~ Michael Shamos
to the U.S. House Science subcommittee
on June 24, 2004
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