Broken memory card blamed in lost ballots

Broken memory card blamed in lost ballots

By Lynn Hulsey Dayton Daily News Jan 8 2009

Issue raises questions about the reliability of Montgomery County's electronic voting machines.

DAYTON — The maker of Montgomery County's electronic voting machines is blaming a damaged memory card for the loss of five ballots on Election Day.

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VA/Fairfax County Machine Problems

VA/Fairfax County Machine Problems

By Marsha Walton CNN Political Ticker Nov 4 2008

Fairfax County, Virginia (CNN) — General Registrar Rokey Suleman said a handful of memory cards did not work when machines were started this morning.

Fairfax County, Virginia (CNN) — General Registrar Rokey Suleman said a handful of memory cards did not work when machines were started this morning. He tells CNN that new memory cards have already been sent out to those precincts with problems.

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Pre-Election Audit of Memory Cards for the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections

Pre-Election Audit of Memory Cards for the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections

Resource Type: 
Report
Publication Date: 
Oct 7 2008
Author/Publisher: 

UConn VoTer Center

Abstract: 

The UConn VoTeR Center performed a pre-election audit of the memory cards for the AccuVote Optical Scan tabulators that were used in the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections.

Resource Files: 
UConnMemoryCardAudit08.pdf

UConn Memory Card Audit 2008

UConn Report Shows Junk Memory Cards Direct From Vendor

UConn Report Shows Junk Memory Cards Direct From Vendor

UConn has a new report of the Pre-Election testing of memory cards for the August 2008 Primary, Pre-Election Audit of Memory Cards for the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections

There was a different methodology used to gather cards for this report. Previous reports were of an incomplete selection of memory cards shipped to UConn by registrars — which should have been subject to pre-election testing before selection and shipping to UConn. Those reports demonstrated that many election officials failed to properly follow pre-election testing procedures. In addition there were questions about “junk” data cards that could not be read.

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