Audit: Fla. Voting Machines Didn't Err
By STEPHEN MAJORS, Associated Press Writer
Friday, February 23, 2007
(02-23) 15:08 PST Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) --
An audit of touch-screen voting machines at the center of a dispute in a congressional election found no evidence of malfunction, the Florida secretary of state said Friday.
The audit was conducted after more than 18,000 ballots were cast in Sarasota County without a selection in the District 13 congressional race in November between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings. Buchanan was the certified winner by 369 votes, but Jennings sued, alleging that the machines malfunctioned.
"Governor Crist and I are committed to ensuring that every Floridian's vote is counted and I am confident that the race in Sarasota County was fair and accurate," said Secretary of State Kurt Browning in a statement about the official audit report.
Buchanan was seated in Congress in January, but Jennings has yet to concede the race.
Third-party voter advocate groups, along with Jennings, have been asking to examine the machines' source code, or programming chips, to find out whether they malfunctioned. The audit report released Friday said an independent study of the source code of the machines used in the election found no evidence of malfunction.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/23/national/a150810S18.DTL
Related of Interest
mentions Alan Dechert
Chuck Garner There are none so blind...
In today's OpEdNews, Alan Dechert has posted two articles promoting the use of computers in elections... Chuck Herrin's "Hack the Vote"...
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/46708.html?1172385401
http://www.opednews.com/
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevoteFAQ.htm
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