"Litany of complaints" about e-voting in Utah

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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595108751,00.html

Voting machines aren't a hit in Grand County

Administrators forward a 'litany' of complaints
By Carrie Switzer
For the Deseret Morning News

MOAB — Grand County administrators have forwarded a "litany" of complaints about electronic voting machines to state elections officials.

Despite glowing reviews from other parts of the country and a public relations campaign by Diebold Corp. lauding its equipment, the Grand County Council has passed along what it calls six extreme examples of inaccuracy in the equipment.

The examples "are only a fraction of the errors that have surfaced regarding use of this new voting equipment," states a letter from the council to the state Election Voting Equipment Selection Committee, which is scheduled to meet Dec. 8 and 9 in Salt Lake City. Diebold Corp. is to make a presentation there.

"Grand County has carefully followed the issue of electronic voting machines as it evolves throughout the nation and in our own state," the letter from the council continues. "States and counties that rushed into the purchase of the new equipment are now publicly regretting their decision and bearing even more expense to make the computers works the way they need to."

Diebold, however, is "thrilled" by the equipment's performance in the Nov. 2 election. Spokesman David Bear in an e-mailed press release to Utah's news media, said the company has "worked hard to make Diebold's system the best in the world by adding features such as paper ballot printouts, personalized card encoders and a host of checks and balances."

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1. receipts, with discrete numbers assigned to each vote

until they do that, all their "enhancements" don't mean jack.
kudos to grand county officials...they know the real deal.