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Yesterday, during Marin's canvass, after recounting 6
precincts completely, (3) more memory cards were corrupted. Cards were
corrupted throughout California at a rate exceeding our normal 1 in 100 that
we've been seeing. Marin is now up to 8 cards corrupted out of
114.
Prior to Super Tuesday I recommended to Ian that we send 1
person with equipment, log books, or whatever is required to a single site, any
site, and have them there during the election process - from beginning to end -
to observe and gather information on how these cards are being corrupted.
This issue, along with AccuVotes needing to be turned off and
on repeatedly during the day to reset them, or AccuVotes just dying in the
middle of the day due to Readers failing has gotten to epidemic
proportions. Fresno, Marin, Tulare, and Humboldt all replaced about 10% of
their units in the field on election day for a variety of reasons. We will
be having a user group meeting in California in the near future. These
corruptions and failures are no longer going to be seen as isolated and will
begin impacting our reference selling ability and confidence in the
product.
Again, I'd suggest an engineering team be placed at any large
site on an election day to capture information on memory card corruption and
AccuVote failures before this situation begins affecting
sales.
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