This isn't the first time the company's equipment has been called into question. In a 2004 primary in Hawaii, about 6,000 votes were miscounted because of problems with the optical scan system. More recently, a county election in Kershaw, S.C., found that the iVotronic system recorded 3,208 votes, but only 768 voters. It took a manual recount to get a true result in the election. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)