Serious Error in Diebold Voting Software Caused Lost Ballots in California County

An investigation shows that the paper mail-in ballots were scanned properly by officials into the central-count optical-scan system made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) -- a receipt printed out by the machine at the time they were scanned on November 1, three days before the election, indicates that the machine recorded the ballots. The ballots even showed up in preliminary tallies counted on election night on November 4 ... Full Story »

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Mike LaBonte
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by Mike LaBonte - Dec. 10, 2008

This is how election problem stories should be written. Complete details, clear explanations, interviews from every angle, links to sources, and it doesn't use the word "glitch" at all. Context includes a few other states and clarification that this is not the same bug as another Premier bug.

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