"We find your report to be highly speculative and reject your assumption of human error."

(OH) Board of Elections: 'Serious concerns' remain (about Diebold)

By Dave Greber

Staff Writer

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

HAMILTON — The Butler County Board of Elections director says she still has "serious concerns" about an investigative report that sought to find the source of counting problems during the March 4 Primary.

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According to the report issued by Texas-based Premier Elections Solutions — which provides electronic voting machines to Butler and 55 Ohio counties — the mistakes were caused by a combination of human error and a failed interaction between the counting hardware and Butler County's antivirus software, which is created by McAfee.

Betty McGary, the county's elections director, disagreed with Premier's results and urged the company to continue its efforts to determine exactly what went wrong.

"It is unfortunate that Premier could not identify a definitive root source for the discrepancies," McGary said in the letter to Premier, dated May 23, 2008. "We find your report to be highly speculative and reject your assumption of human error. Your overall report leads us to continue to have serious concerns."

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Meanwhile, representatives from Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office said they are eying the situation in Butler County closely and share in the local concern. Dozens of other counties in Ohio use the same machines made by Premier Elections Solutions, however none had any similar issues, Premier officials have said.

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