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WCPN aired this piece this morning on a Cuyahoga County Board of Elections public hearing that will be held today, 9/20/07, from 2:30-6pm on the topic of electronic voting (see below for a reprint of the announcement).
While the situation here seems and feels grave, consider this article from today regarding San Francisco’s low expectations for e-voting (counting could take up to three weeks, according to comment in the article) and the California Secretary of State’s actions:
San Francisco voters won’t get computerized results at the end of election night in November, but will have to wait weeks instead, due to problems with The City’s electronic voting machines.
The Examiner first reported the potential disaster in May, shortly after Secretary of State Debra Bowen — whose office oversees elections — sent a letter to the company that provides San Francisco with its voting equipment, Elections Systems and Software. In that letter, Bowen said her office would not certify the voting equipment The City uses. Bowen’s spokesperson said in July that the ES&S system is “seriously flawed.” The City began preparing to hand count ballots.
On Friday, Bowen sent a letter to ES&S notifying the company that it would conditionally recertify the voting system — but would only allow the central computers at San Francisco’s election office to tabulate ballots, not the machines used at the precincts.
“Instead of having 561 machines at the precinct level tabulating, it’s just three machines at City Hall,” S.F. Election head John Arntz said.
If you can get to that session today, please, please go.
Public Session
The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Technology Committee.
This session will be to discuss electronic voting and our current Premier Election Solutions formerly Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
September 20, 2007 at 2:30 to 6:00 pm.
Board of Elections 1st Floor
2925 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:19 am September 20th, 2007 in Announcements, Elections, Government, Ohio
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