Why Electronic Vote Counting is Unreliable

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When President Bush signed the "Help America Vote Act of 2002" on October 29, 2002, the legislation provided funds to states to improve election administration and replace outdated voting systems.

Very quickly, four major corporations made available to counties across the nation electronic voting systems that satisfied requirements written into HAVA. See "Who Owns the Top 3 E-Voting Companies" for more.

Soon, almost every county nationwide had contracted out the administration of public elections to one of the select few major private election systems corporations claiming readiness to do the job. With this contracting out of the running of our public elections, transparency and accountability were lost.

Unfortunately, the major corporations conducting our elections today all insist on using proprietary software (secret ) and all refuse public scrutiny or accountability. In addition, all but one of these corporations are owned and operated by outspoken Republican supporters.

When these facts are combined with the unreliability of electronic voting systems, voters have good reason to question the reliability of vote results provided by these corporations in 2008 and beyond. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to purchase Diebold/Premier Optical Scanners to count our votes and Diebold/Premier GEMS tabulators to tabulate them.

The Problem in San Diego:

Electronic vote counting is unreliable, as documented above. To see for yourself an actual demonstration of an Optical Scanner, like the one used in San Diego and elsewhere, as it reads in paper ballots marked with 2 yes and 6 no votes, and then outputs the vote result as 7 yes and 1 no vote, go here to YouTube and type in the search box "Hacking Democracy 9 of 9".