USA Election Official Says Machines Flawed
USA Election Official Says Machines Flawed
December 2007 CINCINNATI - All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election, a report commissioned by the states top elections official has found. It was worse than I anticipated, the official, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, said of the report. I had hoped that perhaps one system would test superior to the others. At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers. Ms. Brunner proposed replacing all of the states voting machines, including the touch-screen ones used in more than 50 of Ohios 88 counties. She wants all counties to use optical scan machines that read and electronically record paper ballots that are filled in manually by voters. She called for legislation and financing to be in place by April so the new machines can be used in the presidential election next November. She said she could not estimate the cost of the changes. ..Bob Driehaus
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