'Daily Voting News' For December 13 and 14, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Another check of the accuracy of Diebold/Premier voting machines has found that they fail in that department. While performing a state mandated audit Montgomery Co Ohio elections officials found that a memory card from one DRE voting machine read five more votes when read a second time during the audit. The county and state are investigating. What does Diebold/Premier have to say? "We have not seen this particular condition anywhere else in Ohio or anywhere else in the country," according to spokesman Chris Riggall. Clearly Riggall is joking. Of course they haven't seen this condition in Ohio because Ohio has not done these audits in the past and the lack of audits across most of the rest of the country would ensure that no problems would have been found in the past. Where there are audits that may have found this condition, the condition is ignored or just shrugged-off. What they ignore is that there is federal law that dictates accuracy of voting systems and even the loss of these 5 ballots in a county that saw over 280,000 ballots cast is a violation of that law. ... **"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or OpEdNews.Com**