The extraordinary undervote rate on the ES&S Ivotromic.

[Stevepol]

The article goes into great depth of analysis of the performance of hte Ivotronics in FL.

Lost Votes in the 2006 Election: A Look at Extraordinary Undervote Rates on the ES&S iVotronic
By Kitty Garber, Research Director, Florida Fair Elections Center
April 14, 2007

Nearly five months after the 2006 general election, the controversy over the undervotes in the Congressional District 13 race in Sarasota County continues. In recent days, however, an August 15, 2006 letter from ES&S, the maker of the iVotronic voting machines used by Sarasota, has refueled speculation about the cause of the problem and renewed efforts to determine if races in other counties were affected. Even though the iVotronic is the primary voting equipment for only 11 of Florida’s 67 counties, these include the state’s most populous counties in south Florida. Thus, problems with iVotronics have a huge impact on statewide races.

The newly revealed letter, along with evidence of undervote problems from the state’s analysis of overvotes and undervotes, and reports of undervote problems in other counties using the iVotronic, led us to initiate a review of undervote rates in top-of-the-ballot races in the eleven Florida counties that use the iVotronic for precinct voting.1

snip...

Among the findings:

-- During the 2006 general election, six of the eleven counties using the iVotronic experienced excessive undervote rates in at least one race.
-- None of the counties using the Sequoia Edge experienced these undervote spikes nor does it appear that any of the optical scan counties had such spikes, although we have not yet examined all races in those counties. It appears that the undervote spikes only occurred on the iVotronic
-- All non-iVotronic counties—that is, the other 56 counties in Florida—examined to date have shown a normal progression in undervotes from the top races on the ballot to the bottom races.
-- The most egregious example of excessive undervotes occurred in the attorney general’s race where five of the eleven iVotronic counties had excessive undervote rates.

snip...

Conclusions and Recommendations

The high undervote rates on the iVotronics represented a major failure in the 2006 general election. Certainly, the state Division of Elections should have investigated the problems to determine the probable cause or causes of the problems. Yet, the state report is silent on the performance of the iVotronics. Indeed, it doesn’t mention voting system performance on election day or early voting at all. It does mention some other problems, but offers neither explanations nor plans for additional investigation.



Link: http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2383&Itemid=113

[autorank]

1. K&R Now aren't you glad that you ....

... took me off ignore? :rofl: :evilgrin:

[Stevepol]

2. Yup! Keep ROFL you devil you.

I've got a feeling we've got a whole lot of good news coming down the pike this summer and I wdn't want to miss that Oakland Raider symbol.

Have a good week!

[SarasotaDem]

3. Kick

Glad someone is looking at this as a machine problem statistically.

Hard to ignore the numbers this way.

:)