Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Staff Piece - Look at Diebold Again!

[helderheid]

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_2909141

"Electronic Voting Machines: California experience should prompt concern for Utah elections

California, after extensive testing, has rejected as unreliable the type of voting machine that Utah has decided to use to comply with the Help America Vote Act.
That, by itself, is enough to cause concern, but what has us even more worried is that Utah election officials are unwilling to take seriously the report from the nation's most populous state that the failure rate for the Diebold electronic voting devices is about 10 percent. California's secretary of state said the expensive touch-screen system that includes a paper record experienced printer jams and screen freezes during a mock primary that was the most rigorous test yet of the Diebold system.
Diebold is "not good enough for the voters of California," said Bruce McPherson. Nevertheless, Utah's election division director, Michael Cragun, said he is confident the machines that arrive in Utah will be more reliable than those tested in California. "The decision has been made," Cragun said.
That kind of dogged refusal to consider new information could cost Utahns more than money. Diebold appears to have bugs the size of Buicks, and if they can't be worked out, they could end up casting doubt on the outcomes of Utah elections. "

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[meganmonkey]

1. Good!

Basic description of the machine problems...

good find!

[Bushfire]

2. too good an article not to be kicked n/t

[Stevepol]

3. KICK!!! n/t

[rumpel]

4. Let's give them some encouragement letters...