FAIRFIELD COUNTY - Diebold Election Systems admits it is to blame for not telling the Fairfield County Board of Elections the right way to count votes for the Nov. 7 election. But the company said it has no idea exactly how the board arrived at its original incorrect tallies.
The Fairfield County Board of Elections followed the wrong procedure for counting votes after Issue 1 was removed from the ballot. The procedural error led to incorrect vote counts and some issues appearing to pass Tuesday afternoon when they did not.
There was no immediate answer Wednesday about where incorrect numbers came from, said Diebold Election Systems spokesman David Bear about why the wrong procedure led to its skewed numbers.
The initial official results were made public around 2 p.m. Tuesday, but a call from the Eagle-Gazette alerted the elections office to an error.
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061130/NEWS01/611300303"Elections officials correct procedural tabulation error"
FAIRFIELD COUNTY - The Fairfield County Board of Elections blames Diebold for errors with the first official vote count of the Nov. 7 general election.
Three of the board's four members certified the vote count for the Nov. 7 general election during an emergency meeting Tuesday night. It was the second time Tuesday the count was certified.
After the initial results were made public, at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Eagle-Gazette notified the board that it noticed errors in the official count. Board members say they didn't notice a problem before approving the count because they didn't compare the unofficial results to the canvassed vote count.
"I didn't look at it that close," said Board of Elections member Allan Reid.
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEWS01/611290326/1002/NEWS17Of note, I went through the Ohio 2004 recount in this county, and they totally and completed kowtowed to Blackwell and violated all state laws regarding the recount in this county. Of note, there is an online poll on if people in Fairfield County trust electronic voting now, and a resounding 98.6 percent do NOT. Here is my and my and another person's accounting of the disasterous 2004 recount in Fairfield County, Ohio:
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