Optech

Jan. 3, 2006: Information received pointing to similar vulnerabilities in the ES&S and Sequoia "Optech" optical scan machines. '

Hold on to your lugnuts 2006

Acropetal Technologies has entered into definitive agreements to acquire 100 per cent equity in Line Beyond Inc and 70 per cent stake in Optech Consulting Inc for $4.90 million each.

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In the New Hampshire 2004 primary, the Accuvote (Diebold) and Optech (ES&S) machines reportedly got very different results.

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You see, in 1992 Oklahoma bought ES&S Optech III-P Eagle optical-scan machines then immediately kicked ES&S out of the state.

'Daily Voting News' For January 07, 2008 2008

Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont use Diebold/Premier optical scanners exclusively; in Maine and Massachusetts the same system predominates but a few locations are still using Optech voting machines from Election Systems & Software (ES&S).

About those so-called "Election Audits" - Missing Info 2008

The plan includes purchasing Optech paper ballots from Sequoia, without offering any other ballot vendor an opportunity to competitively bid.

Riverside County set to sole-source purchase decertified Sequoia vote scanners 2007

More than half of that amount, $25.5 million in taxpayer dollars financed largely from federal grants under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), will go toward the purchase of about 5,600 Sequoia Optech Insight precinct optical scanners.

Are Chicago and Cook County Wasting $25 Million on Inferior, Non-Compliant Voting Technology? 2006

"From the documentation submitted by Sequoia, it certainly appears that they thought it was feasible to reprogram the firmware for the ES&S, thus eliminating the need for the Optech Insight scanner," added Roy Lipscomb, director of technology for IBIP.

Chicago and Cook County Voters Urged to Check Ballots Carefully 2006

But when the proposal from Sequoia was submitted, there was no mention of detecting undervotes and the final contract doesn't require the Optech Insight scanner to be able to do this, despite the original specifications and HAVA standards.

Chicago and Cook County Voters Urged to Check Ballots Carefully 2006

In fact, the undervote detection capability was so prized by Chicago and Cook County that they asked Sequoia to develop specifications for a "blended" system by which Chicago would continue to use the PBC-2100 to read ballots, and Sequoia proposed to reprogram the firmware for the PBC-2100 to accept the AVC Edge cartridges and combine the results, thus eliminating the need for the Optech Insight.

Are Chicago and Cook County Wasting $25 Million on Inferior, Non-Compliant Voting Technology? 2006