[Mb-civic] triad systems in ohio

[Kevin Walz]

Michael,

I wanted to post on Civic that I sent around the Willam Rivers Pitt / 
truthout article from this week on the Triad Voting Systems in Ohio.
The article was passed to an observer in one of the Ohio county who 
recounts what happened in Madison County as a
3% count was taken while a Triad employee "assisted," the BOE official, 
unobserved in a private room.

Kevin Walz

This recount follows:


Thanks for the e-mail on TriAD. I wish I had known
that when I was observing the recount. My punch card
county used a different system, but I was just talking
with a friend who witnessed a county in which used
TriAD. This is what she found:

>> Problem in Madison County
>> (told to me by Susan O'Keeffe, who was a
>> Kerry/Edwards
>> witness in Madison Co.)

>>
>> 3% count:
>> The 3% precinct was pre-selected by the BOE
>> (Board of Elections) with no witnesses present.
>>
>> System in use:
>> TRIAD
>>
>> Person running the machine:
>> TRIAD Employee. He was already present and with
> the
>> machine when witnesses arrived. I believe only BOE
>> officials, Director and Deputy Director are
>> authorized
>> to touch the ballots.
>>
>> Where the machine was located:
>> A separate room with no witnesses and no BOE
>> officals
>> present. Witnesses only saw the print-out that was
>> generated.
>>