EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Stanley A. Klein
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 3.4
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Comment : | Official data in Maryland The “unofficial” data discussed above is confirmed by evidence from official sources. The Maryland Board of Elections secretly placed all Maryland voting machines on lockdown following the 2004 General Election as a result of extensive machine failures experienced. TrueVoteMD received information from anonymous insiders in at least two Maryland counties regarding the lockdown and the inability of the voting machine vendor to explain the failures (for example, see the memo posted at http://www.truevotemd.org/Resources/DieboldMemo21605. jpg). An afterelection memorandum from the Montgomery County Board of Elections states that they had trouble tickets on 7% of their machines and suspected another 5% of having lost recorded votes, for a total of 12% actual or suspected machine failures. The relevant material can be found on page 11 of the memorandum posted at http://www.truevotemd.org/Resources/Lessons_Learned.pdf), a portion of which is reproduced as Appendix A to these comments.