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Tag(s): 2006 Election Investigations; 2006 Elections; Voter Disenfranchisement; Voting Integrity; Voting Laws Federal HAVA; Voting Machines; Voting Reform
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November 22, 2006 at 17:06:39

Diebold Ballot Programming Errors and Election Corruption in Utah

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Utah election officials are pushing for more funds to increase the amount of Diebold touchscreens, misinforming press and the public by wrongly stating that the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) requires one touchscreen for each voter, rather than one device for each polling location for the disabled voters to be able to vote privately and unassisted.

Contrary to the claims of Utah election officials, Utah has the option to use less expensive, more trustworthy, auditable optical scan paper ballots or punch-card ballots for voters.

Background:
Diebold advertised 16 phony office locations in Utah whitepages and told Utah decision-makers that it had "about 20 office locations" in Utah when it has only one. Diebold created a phony web site which it used to post fictitious stories about Utah activist Kathy Dopp and BlackBoxVoting's Bev Harris. Diebold told Utah officials that its phony web site was "run by an independent watchdog organization". Diebold was caught selling a combination of used/rejected and new voting machines for new prices by Emery County Clerk Bruce Funk, but Utah's Lt. Governor's office and Attorney General's office helped Diebold to cover up the evidence of its fraud and locked the doors on Funk's office to keep him from going to work at the job he was elected to. The Utah Lt. Governor's Chief of Staff Joe Demma also released fictitious stories about voting activist Kathy Dopp to Utah press to stop press from interviewing Dopp for news articles and has lied numerous times to Utah press and to county commissioners in Utah regarding the Diebold voting system and HAVA requirements. Diebold defrauded the federal testing process; installed questionable voting software immediately prior to improbable election results in Georgia; settled out of court for fraud charges in California; and made false claims that it had fixed voting system security flaws discovered first in the 1990's, again in 2003, etc.

References:

What do the experts say?
http://utahcountvotes.org/docs/WhatdotheExpertsSay.pdf

The problems with Utah's new written audit and recount policies:
http://utahcountvotes.org/ltgov/Response2LtGov-Audit-Recount.pdf

Utah Punishes Whistle Blower County Clerk
http://utahcountvotes.org/docs/ZogbyTransparencyPoll.pdf

Proposal for election integrity audits for Utah:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/VoteCountAudit-UT.pdf

How to ensure electronic election outcome integrity with manual audits:
http://vote.nist.gov/ElectionIntegrityAudit.pdf

Utah Count Votes
http://utahcountvotes.org

The Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
http://www.fec.gov/hava/law_ext.txt

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Founder and President of US Count Votes, dba The National Election Data Archive and volunteer for honest, accurately counted elections since 2003. Masters degree in mathematics with emphasis on computer science. Has written numerous academic and scientific papers with computer scientists, statisticians, and mathematicians on election integrity topics, inluding how to calculate minimum manual audit amounts necessary to ensure election outcome integrity.