Exclusive: Diebold 'Nukes' Humboldt County!

Terminates all contracts - including voter registration system - following California county's discovery, disclosure of major flaws in Diebold/Premier voting systems...

Guest Blogged by Parke Bostrom of the Humboldt Transparency Project

At the California Secretary of State's public hearing regarding the possible decertification of Diebold's tabulator systems, GEMS v1.18.19, in relation to the "Deck Zero" covert deletion of 197 ballots in the November election, the audit log's magical "clear" button, and the GEMS audit logs failing to report when ballots were manually deleted by the operator, Diebold/Premier representatives tried to shift blame for the 197 deleted ballots onto Humboldt County, CA's Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich.

Crnich responded, "If you're saying that your system needs to be checked every damn time we turn it on, I agree with you."

Crnich's use of an expletive seems to have pushed Diebold/Premier's legal counsel over the edge, causing them to reach for and firmly press the "nuke" button in response, by petulantly informing the county of termination of licensing for the use of any of the company's products. Click here for rest of the story.

Note:
The Humboldt Transparency Project is a nonpartisan citizens group dedicated to election integrity and accurate elections. The group worked with the Humboldt County Registrar of Voters to develop a system to scan ballots and use software to conduct an independent count. The group discovered what is known as the Humboldt Anomaly when the Diebold optical scan election system deleted 200 ballots from the initially certified election count. First Diebold tried to place blame on the Registrar of Voters, then finally admitted that the software has a 'DELETE' button for erasing audit logs in every version of its software. Yes, that means the ''DELETE' button existed on every version of Pima County GEMS software system used in past elections in Pima County. Diebold's retalitatory action against Humboldt County means that the County will no longer be able to operate its purchased optical scanners with GEMS software after California's May 19 election. A cost-effective system similar to the one developed by the Humboldt Transparency Project is being proposed for Pima County, although any change may require a new state law.
-----Sandra Spangler, Chair, Pima County Democratic Party Election Integrity Committee