05 February 2005
a study of voting machines in Snohomish County, WA
Seattle Weekly: News: The Minus Touch by Rick Anderson
|Lehto and Hoffman theorize that computers might also have automatically assigned under-votes—when a voter fails to choose one candidate or another—to a candidate not of their choosing, and they say a forensic analysis or audit of the machines' programming could settle that and other claims. The county and the machine maker, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., won't allow that. Lehto says he might sue. Sequoia, and particularly another touch-screen voting-machine maker, Diebold of North Canton, Ohio (whose CEO promised to do whatever it took to get George W. Bush elected president), have had to fend off accusations of electronic ballot rigging ever since the 2000 Florida election debacle. On its Web site, Sequoia says its systems are tamperproof, adding that "Sequoia's customers from Palm Beach County, Florida, to the suburban Seattle county of Snohomish, Washington, continue to enjoy the accolades that result from having carefree, accurate, electronic elections in partnership with our seasoned team of dedicated technicians and former election administrators."|
|Lehto and Hoffman theorize that computers might also have automatically assigned under-votes—when a voter fails to choose one candidate or another—to a candidate not of their choosing, and they say a forensic analysis or audit of the machines' programming could settle that and other claims. The county and the machine maker, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., won't allow that. Lehto says he might sue. Sequoia, and particularly another touch-screen voting-machine maker, Diebold of North Canton, Ohio (whose CEO promised to do whatever it took to get George W. Bush elected president), have had to fend off accusations of electronic ballot rigging ever since the 2000 Florida election debacle. On its Web site, Sequoia says its systems are tamperproof, adding that "Sequoia's customers from Palm Beach County, Florida, to the suburban Seattle county of Snohomish, Washington, continue to enjoy the accolades that result from having carefree, accurate, electronic elections in partnership with our seasoned team of dedicated technicians and former election administrators."|
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