NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "At a public hearing in California, Diebold's western region manager has admitted that the audit log system on current versions of Premier primary Solutions' (formerly Diebold's) e-banking voting and tabulating systems — used in some 34 states across the nation — fails to record the wholesale deletion of ballots, even when ballots are deleted on the same day as an election. An polls system's audit logs are meant to record all exercise during the system's actual positive integer of ballots, so that later examiners may determine, with certainty, whether any fraudulent or mistaken exercise had occurred during the count. Diebold's disk operating system fails to do that, as has new been discovered by advance poll Integrity advocates in Humboldt County, CA, and then third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 by the CA clerk of State. The flaws, built into the system for more than a decade, are in serious assault of federal voting system certification standards."

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