For those who think that voting by absentee ballot is the way to get around Diebold electronic ballot fraud: well, that's been anticipated that. Absentee ballots are to be counted electronically by - Diebold machines.
[San Diego]County officials said yesterday they discovered a new problem with the flawed March election - 2,821 absentee ballots that were miscounted in the Democratic presidential and Senate Republican primaries.
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County Chief Administrative Officer Walt Ekard said his confidence in the system has been "dampened." Meanwhile, a state official raised the possibility for the first time that the system could be dropped for the November election.
"All options are on the table, including decertification," said Doug Stone, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's Office.
Ekard sent a letter to the manufacturer, Diebold Election Systems Inc., demanding that it fix the problems before November. A Diebold spokesman said the company will work with county and state officials on any problems.
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Most of the absentee miscounts occurred in the Democratic presidential race, in which 2,747 votes cast for John Kerry were incorrectly credited to Rep. Dick Gephardt.
Full article at San Diego Tribune
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