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HBO's 'Recount' Gets It (Mostly) Right, Even if America Didn't

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6026

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In Volusia County, the same "crazy" optical scan machines that delivered Gore's negative vote total are still in use.

The negative votes in 2000 could have been caused by four problems according to internal e-mails written by the machine's manufacturer, then called Global Election Systems. A corrupt memory card, an invalid read from a good card, corruption of memory or a card from an "un-authorized source."

Students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania won a court battle to keep the e-mails public.

If it was a memory card failure problem, those issues still plague elections here.
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The agency charged by law to act as a clearinghouse for information on voting systems nationwide, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, said in November that it could not tell local election officials about the potential problem because a state or local agency had not yet told them.

They still have not been informed, said Commission spokesman Bryan Whitener.

"There is not the slightest bit of authority that this agency has to get information," Whitener said.