Reply #3: MD: Documents Detailing Diebold Failures, Violations of State Law

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TrueVoteMD Releases Documents Detailing Diebold Failures, Violations of State Law

Questions raised about the accuracy of the SBE’s public statements

In 2003, TrueVoteMD launched an effort to re-establish transparent, accurate, recountable elections in Maryland when it became apparent that the Diebold voting system was hackable, defective, and budget-busting. We thought that simply educating our State Election Board about the ever-growing list of errors, breakdowns, hacks and uncertain election results around the country would result in the simple solution advocated by experts: voter-verified paper ballots for recounts and audits. What we found instead was a surprising refusal to look at those facts.

Then it got worse. We learned about the use of uncertified software in violation of state law. We learned about voting system meltdowns - from voters- but also from insiders who were afraid to go public. We learned about missing candidates, screen problems, and machines failing to record any votes. We learned about a five month 'statewide lockdown' of the voting machines while Diebold scrambled to explain the meltdown in the months after November 2004.

Worst of all, we witnessed a State Elections Administrator who at every turn covered up the facts to protect a private corporation which had been hired to count our votes. Now, under court order, the State Administrator has been forced to turn over documents which show a long standing pattern of misleading legislators, the press and the public and lying under oath.

The Exhibits below are culled from thousands of pages of evidence with more to come. We hope that these facts will help Maryland and the nation find its way back to a voting system worthy of the confidence of the American electorate.

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http://www.truevotemd.org

Full Project

http://truevotemd.org/content/view/430/61


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