Voting Machine Audit Logs Raise More Questions about Lost Votes in CA Election

Wired by Kim Zetter | Jan. 13, 2009 (Investigative Report)

Humboldt County officials deleted at least 27 batches of optical-scan ballots from GEMS during the November election process -- a common practice when officials make a mistake and have to re-scan a batch -- yet the audit log shows that only one batch was "aborted" (aborting a batch is a different procedure from deleting a batch, which might explain why the log recorded this action and not the others). Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Election Reform
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Posted by: Posted by Mike LaBonte - Jan 13, 2009 - 6:01 PM PST
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Mike LaBonte
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 by Mike LaBonte - Jan. 13, 2009

Excellent depth and detail, loaded with evidence. It is unfortunate that Premier did not respond because that prevents me from giving top marks for fairness to a report that makes every effort to be fair. There may be a small error: where it says "two different IP addresses", the same IP address is given twice.

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