Maryland held election using illegal Diebold voting machines

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Documents show Maryland held election, primary on uncertified, illegal Diebold voting machines

Carlos Miller
Published: February 16, 2006


The Maryland State Board of Elections allowed Diebold Election Systems to operate its touch-screen voting machines during the state's 2002 gubernatorial election and the 2004 presidential primaries before the state agency actually certified the controversial machines, according to recently disclosed documents.

That is a violation of state law, according to Linda Schade, executive director of TrueVoteMD.org, an election integrity group.

Schade discovered the document among thousands of others she recently acquired through a lawsuit filed against the Maryland State Board of Elections in 2004. After almost two years of public records requests and attorney wrangling, she received four boxes filled with e-mail conversations, faxes and contracts between the elections office and Diebold.

"So far, we've only gone through one box and have just started the second box," she said Wednesday. "We expect to find much more."

The Raw Story http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Documents_show_Maryland_held_election_primary_0216.html

[Botany]

1. MD had cute returns in 04

rough figures .....

750,000 repubs produced 1,200,000 bush votes
1,300,000 dems produced 1,300,000 kerry votes

the stink is not just from OHIO

Alaska has the smell too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2391098

[savemefromdumbya]

2. how did Gov ehrlich get all those votes?

[Fredda Weinberg]

3. I don't think they have their versions straight

From what I can find here

http://www.elections.state.md.us/citizens/voting_systems/index.html

They could have used the version that was certified

http://www.nased.org/NASED%20Qualified%20Voting%20Systems%20122205.pdf

Previous versions of this story refer to a quote from a press release by Diebold, but the original document isn't available

In other words, this situation is more complicated than it first appears - and "our" side isn't being completely forthcoming.

[Wilms]

4. K&R n/t