*/EXCLUSIVE: ES&S Attempts to Block PA County's Independent Audit of
Failed Touch-Screens <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8874>/*
/After no objections previously, the nation's largest e-voting company
attempts to kibosh computer scientists' forensic examination in Venango
County, PA.../
Despite failing to object for months prior, the nation's largest
electronic voting system vendor, ES&S, is now attempting to stop a
landmark independent examination of their e-voting systems in a
Pennsylvania county dead in its tracks.
An October letter from the company, obtained by The BRAD BLOG
<http://bradblog.com>, charges that Venango County, PA is in violation
of their contract agreements with the Omaha-based e-voting Goliath, even
as two volunteer Carnegie Mellon computer scientists are in the midst of
a forensic audit of the county's May 17 primary election. The county's
investigation comes on the heels of apparent failures of the ES&S
iVotronic touch-screen voting system during their recent primary and
several other recent elections in Venango.
The 100% unverifiable ES&S iVotronic system has failed in a number of
elections nationwide, but is still widely used across the country and
slated for use once again in more than a dozen states in next year's
Presidential election.
The Venango study, which we first reported on in early October
<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8796> as it began, came about after worries
arose during a 2008 election when the ES&S system reported that some
county candidates "had zero votes", as the county's Republican Board of
Elections chair, Craig Adams recently told us
<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8834> while we were guest hosting the
nationally syndicated /Mike Malloy Show/ <http://MikeMalloy.com>…
*FULL STORY: *http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8874
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