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MONKEY BUSINESS
A look at vote-counting mischief and the potential for more

by Miriam Raftery

On Election Day, will your vote be counted accurately?

According to a CBS/New York Times poll, only 35 percent of people surveyed had “a lot” of confidence that their votes would be properly counted.

Nationwide, a movement to reform election procedures and protect against electronic-vote tampering and other forms of voting fraud is gaining force.

CityBeat interviewed San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre regarding complaints raised by local and national election-reform activists over alleged violations of election law in San Diego’s recent mayoral race.

“I share some concerns about the integrity of the electoral system,” Aguirre said.

In the course of that interview, Aguirre learned of allegations that the county Registrar of Voters failed to take adequate precautions to prevent hackers from tampering with memory cards in voting machines and illegally connected the county’s central tabulator to the Internet on election night.

Informed that Jim March, a nationally known election-reform activist from the group Black Box Voting, was arrested and charged with a felony for trying to watch the tabulator count votes at the Registrar’s office, Aguirre replied, “You’re kidding.”

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