S.C. to use voting machines banned in other states

[babylonsister]

S.C. to use voting machines banned in other states
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-01-09 15:29. Elections

By Associated Press


GREENVILLE - South Carolina election officials say they still plan to use touch-screen voting machines despite the fact that other states have banned the use of similar systems made by the same company.

Last month, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that Election Systems and Software's iVotronic is unfit for elections.

The ban was prompted by a study done for the state of Ohio in which researchers found electronic voting systems could be corrupted with magnets or handheld electronic devices such as Palm Treos.

"We've reviewed the report and we remain confident in the security and accuracy of South Carolina's voting system," state Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire said.

But the South Carolina League of Women Voters has renewed its call for the state to record votes on paper as well as electronically to allow for accuracy checks, though there have been no documented cases of actual election tampering.

"It's very difficult to get evidence that somebody tampered with the vote if you have no way of knowing what the vote was before they tampered," said Eleanor Hare, a computer scientist who participated in a study of the machines by the South Carolina League of Women Voters.

The machines have been used statewide since 2006.

The Ohio study found the machines "lack the fundamental technical controls necessary to guarantee a trustworthy election under operational conditions."

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[ordinaryaveragegirl]

1. You'd think that...

They'd make sure it's fair before they roll the machines out there a few days from now. There is a large African-American population in SC, and we all know what happened in OH in 2004...

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud_ohio.html

[babylonsister]

3. We should all be concerned. This will be a preview of November

and I'm not optimistic.

[1corona4u]

2. So, when Obama creams Hillary,

we can all jump up and down and claim that he cheated?

[babylonsister]

4. I don't want anyone to be cheated, so it's worrisome. nt

[1corona4u]

5. I think people are really blowing this out of proportion.

That's what I think.

[babylonsister]

6. Do you blame 'people' after 2000/20004? Maybe you had to be here,

but elections haven't been on the 'up and up' in this country for awhile. So what's the point if we can't believe the instruments we use to determine a winner?