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| A voter arrives at Samaritan Village to vote with new electronic privacy voting machines, in New York, in this September 14, 2010 file photo. (Photo: Uli Seit / The New York Times) |
by:
Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog
| News Analysis
According to the Initial Report from a landmark independent forensic
audit of the Venango County, PA, touch-screen voting system --- the same
system used in dozens of counties across the state and country ---
someone used a computer that was not a part of county's election network
to remotely access the central election tabulator computer, illegally,
"on multiple occasions."
Despite the disturbing report, as obtained by The BRAD BLOG
and posted in full below, we may never get to learn who did it or why,
if Venango's County Commissioners, a local judge, and the nation's
largest e-voting company have their way. And that's not all we won't get
to find out about.
The battle for election integrity continues in Venango, with the County
Commissioners teaming up with e-voting vendor Election Systems &
Software, Inc. (ES&S) on one side, and the county's renegade interim
Republican-majority Board of Elections on the other.
The Commissioners
and ES&S have been working to spike the independent scientific
forensic audit of the county's failed electronic voting machines that
was commissioned by the interim Board of Elections. Making matters
worse, the Board has now been removed from power by a county judge, a
decision they are attempting to appeal as the three-person board and
their supporters continue to fight the entrenched establishment for
transparency and accountability in the rural Western Pennsylvania
county.
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