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IA: Optical Scan Failures Caught by Hand Count, not by LAT




http://votetrustusa.org/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1378&Itemid=51

By John Gideon, VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA
June 09, 2006

"Once the totals were nearly complete, Drake had her workers do a hand count of the absentee ballots to see if there was a problem. The count on the tallying machine made and programmed by ES&S read Duran = 99 and Sciortino = 79. The hand count, however, told a different story – Duran = 25 and Sciortino = 153. There was definitely a problem and Drake knew this problem was probably evident on all ballot positions.

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Why did the Logic and Accuracy (L&A) test not find the software error?"