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    November 8, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    Vermont Sued for “Unclean Elections”…

    Blazing Indiscretions http://www.blazingindiscretions.blogspot.com/ has an excellent story about the National Clean Elections Lawsuit which was officially launched this week. All 50 states are being sued!

    While many towns in Vermont count the votes by hand, many do not. Currently, 94 towns will use Diebold AccuVote OS (optical-scan) machines in the next election representing more than 50% of the state’s registered voters.

    Vermonters, it’s time to wake up!!! These machines are just as prone to errors, malfunctions and software attacks as their infamous counterpart; the touchscreen voting machines.

    Read the Brennan Report if you don’t believe me, or just visit VotersUnite.org to review the most recent malfunctions that took place in actual elections. Some too close for comfort, like New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and the list goes on. *They use the same machines as us (Diebold AccuVote OS and the same programmer for the Diebold memory cards, LHS, Associates.)

    What really concerns me though is that we will most likely never know if malfunctions or miscounts happen in Vermont because we rarely audit the election results. (There has only been one audit since Vt started using these machines and I’d hardly call it an audit)

    Sure, we have paper ballots, but what’s the point of using them if they are never actually counted by hand or even audited for review.

    Ted Selker, Cal Tech/MIT Voting Technology Project, summed up my feelings best when he said, “A common practice for local election officials is to let election companies run their election – make up their ballot, set up their machines, and even count their tallies. This is a dangerous practice.”

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