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Lawsuit seeks to toss out Bilbray election
......The lawsuit took specific aim at the practice of allowing poll workers to take the machines home with them prior to the election – a practice Haas said is done to ensure that polling places open on time.
“The thing you've got to know about using computers in the election is that computers do whatever they're told to do, without any regard to law, ethics or morality,” Lehto said, adding he believes some machines were tampered with.
“When you send them on 'sleepovers' from anywhere from three days to over a week, then you've lost all illusion about any kind of security.”
Lehto said the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Gail Jacobsen, a San Diego mediator, and Lillian Ritt, a Rancho Santa Fe lawyer.
From:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060731-1337-bn31election.html
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Group Files Lawsuit Seeking Bilbray-Busby Election Recount
The lawsuit claims that Haas sent Diebold voting machines on "sleepovers" in the unsecured homes and cars of volunteer poll workers for weeks prior to the election, in violation of state and federal law.
When voter Barbara Gail Jacobsen filed for a recount, Haas said such a move would cost $150,000, but he refused to provide the documents that would need to be filed to request a recount, the suit alleges.
An attorney for the plaintiffs, Paul Lehto, said that because the Diebold machines were conditionally certified by the Secretary of State under stringent security and chain-of-custody conditions to protect against manipulation, the lawsuit asserts that non-compliance with those conditions requires decertification of the election results.
http://www.10news.com/politics/9604585/detail.html
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Brad Blog notes on Press Conference:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3156
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