CA SOS decertify Diebold because of 10% error rate

[chrisclub]

Two California secretaries of state have refused to certify a touch-screen voting machine, and for good reason.

By Andrew Gumbel

August 4 2005

BRUCE MCPHERSON, California's secretary of state, has just performed an invaluable service for the voters. Only a few months into the job, he had been under intense pressure to certify the latest electronic touch-screen voting machine manufactured by Diebold Election Systems, which is supposed to help California counties meet a federally mandated January deadline for the overhaul of their election equipment. But instead of rolling over, his office conducted exhaustive tests on the Diebold TSx, discovered that it had a 10% error rate — worse than the reviled punch-card machines used in Florida in 2000 — and sent the company back to the drawing board.

The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gumbel4aug04,0,3079435.story

[Canuckistanian]

1. Whoops! They put the wrong software in... again

They accidentally left the "10% to the Republicans v3.76" software loaded into memory instead of the "Certification Test v1.07".

Could happen to anyone.

[davidinalameda]

2. that must be a lie

because we all know that the only reason McPherson is in office is to be a Diebold pawn

well, at least that's what the apologists for the former CA SOS Kevin Shelley said