Some Electronic Voting Machines Never Certified

Julia Rosen at Calitics has the latest news on California's electronic voting machines. Now it turns out that ES&S sold voting machines to some counties before they were certified. Even worse, turns out that the company may have faked certification stickers on the back of some machines.

The law allows the state to fine the company up to $10,000 per uncertified system ($9.72m) and refund the counties all or part of the purchase price, which would amount to about $5 million. Plus, the state could ban ES&S from doing any business with the state. That could effect up to 14 more counties, including LA County.

But there's more...

the A200 machines had stickers on them...that identified them as having passed federal qualification testing, when they hadn't yet passed that testing.

Secretary of State Debra Bowen will be holding a hearing on the electronic voting machines--and the possible attempt to mislead California elections officials--on September 20.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party recently announced an unprecedented election protection project--to identify possible problems before Election Day. Read more about the project here.

Comments (3) «

Glad to hear that the DNC is on top of this. Hope they are also working on getting Democratic leaning voters to vote early in states that allow it. That's one way to make sure that votes from these machines are counted and certified...ahead of election night.

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SandyH on August 22, 2007 at 09:51 PM

Our state is in the process of doing the NCOA and non-voting purge.

These voters were sent a confirmation notice that had to be returned. If the voter didn't return it over the next 2 years, they are off the active voters list. Should they wish to vote, they must re-register.

How about some voter education commercials?

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Esmeralda on August 23, 2007 at 07:56 AM

Lets put this on the air for all to see. If anyone was thinking about voting Republican, they may have a second thought.

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freeforall on August 23, 2007 at 01:03 PM

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