Arizona is buying Diebold machines!! Write Jan Brewer

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and tell her Diebold has BIG problems!

edit to add: They insist all "concerns" in writing
email [e-mail]
snail mail:
Elections
1700 W Washington Streeet
7th Floor
Phoenix, AZ 85007
http://www.sos.state.az.us/election/voter_outreach/info.htm

California – Diebold 30
An audit of Diebold Election Systems voting machines in California has revealed that the
company installed uncertified software in all 17 counties that use its electronic voting
equipment.
While 14 counties used software that had been qualified by federal authorities but not
certified by state authorities, three counties, including Los Angeles, used software that
had never been certified by the state or qualified by federal authorities for use in any
election. ... The extent of the changes that Diebold made to upgrades of its software is still
unknown.

Maryland – Diebold 32
Black Box Voting reported that Diebold has used uncertified software in Maryland.
According to Diebold employee emails, prior to the 2002 election, certified software was
installed but then overridden by uncertified software - before the election – making the
vote count illegal. This also raises questions about the accuracy of the vote count.

California, San Diego County – Diebold TSx 47
While elections officials continue to size up everything that went wrong with San Diego
County's first stab at electronic balloting, the problems ran much deeper than a simple
technological glitch, voters and poll workers say.
After the polls closed Tuesday, signatures on voter rolls in at least one precinct did not
match the number of ballots recorded by machines. In other polling places, people were
wrongly given provisional ballots.
Poll inspectors across the county complained they had been poorly trained to deal with
even minor problems. For long stretches on election day morning, the hotline set up to
tackle emergencies was so swamped that poll workers were not able to get through.
In Carmel Valley, one voter said she was allowed to cast a second ballot after the
computer spit out her activation card while she was weighing her choices. She later said
the card showed that her original vote had been counted.

RABA Report 97
In what appears to be yet another attempt to get a good report on the Diebold machines it had
purchased, the Maryland legislature contracted for a practical test of the systems. It hired
computer science experts to work with six machines for a week and attemp to hack the machines.
♦ The computer science experts gave the systems a failing grade.
♦ Diebold representatives said the test confirmed the accuracy and security of their systems.
Here are excerpts:
William Arbaugh, a University of Maryland assistant professor of computer science who
participated in the test, graded the system an "F," "with the possibility of raising it to a
'C' with extra credit -- that is, if they follow the recommendations we gave them."
"I was really surprised with the totality of the problems we found. Just about everywhere
we looked we found them," Arbaugh said.
Diebold officials could not be reached directly for comment. But in a press release, the
company said Thursday that the study "validates" the Diebold election systems for the
primary.
Diebold President Bob Urosevich said in the release that the Raba Technologies report
confirmed "the accuracy and security of Maryland's voting procedures and our voting
systems as they exist today."

http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/mythbreakers.pdf