Diebold machines questioned in Summit County
From Ballotpedia
October 31, 2008
Despite criticism, election officials in Summit County are standing behind their use of electronic voting machines that have been rejected by counties across the country.[1]
No paper trail
Kathy Dopp, founder of the organization Utah Counts Votes, is concerned because the Diebold-manufactured machines are not compared to paper trails to ensure accuracy. "We have the most secretive election officials of any state in the country and we aren't even allowed to know if they have security procedures," Dopp stated. "Why on Earth should election procedures be secret from the public?"
Summit County Clerk Kent Jones responded, "In our experience in Utah we have not come up with any issues. I'm OK with the system we have in the place We do a lot of testing of this kind of stuff, we do a lot of trainings and scenarios."
The machines, which are used in all 29 of Utah's counties, are no longer used in parts of California, Ohio, Florida, Maryland, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
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