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Watch out South Carolina - ES&S voting systems ALERT

By Tim Chng - Jan 10th, 2008 at 1:05 pm EST

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For those of you who are concerned about the Diebold election systems in New Hampshire and wish to be aware of potential problems with the electronic voting machines, remember that in South Carolina, they use ES&S voting machines.

ES&S systems actually have similar problems to the Diebold systems. They are also based on using PCMCIA cards. South Carolina will be using the ES&S systems and they have been banned from use in Ohio and Colorado:

"Last month, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that Election Systems and Software's iVotronic is unfit for elections."

http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/jan/07/s_c_use_voting_machines_banned_other_sta26854/

The issue is not the company that produced the e-voting system. The questions that must be asked are more along the lines of who maintains these systems? How do recounts happen? How may a voter verify his/her ballot? How are the votes counted?

The technologies of ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia systems have all been criticized by several computer science professors across the United States. If you want to go in to technical detail (being a computer scientist myself) I could share with you the concerns, but suffice it to say that if you think that just clicking on a touch screen and hoping your vote will be recorded in a machine or even writing a ballot and not knowing how that ballot will be counted electronically, your votes can now be rigged.

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