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The Disasterous Election Day in San Francisco« Thread Started on Nov 21, 2007, 7:25am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Disasterous Election Day in San FranciscoNovember 20, 2007 read at source> http://afine2.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/ ... francisco/
I happened to find myself in San Francisco on Election Day this past November 6th. Oh, what a disaster - really, I couldn’t believe that a major city in America would have an voting process that was broken from end to end. I wrote it up for my friends at the Personal Democracy Forum. Here’s it is:On September 20th, I spied a small article in the San Francisco Chronicle with the headline, “S.F. election results won’t be known for weeks.” The Secretary of State of California, Debra Bowen, determined that ES&S Systems, makers of the AutoMARK touch screen voting machines, had sold machines to several counties, including San Francisco, that were not certified by the state. I dug a little further and found out that the the Secretary of State had already determined that the Eagle optical-scan machines bought by California in 2000 inconsistently read some pen markings. The bottom line is that after seven years of reforms, millions of dollars in new machinery, San Francisco county cannot certify this election until a hand recount of ballots is completed.