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# Fwd: Wireless transmission

- To: support@gesn.com
- Subject: Fwd: Wireless transmission
- From: SKGLOBAL@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:06:26 EST

    Sent to Ken, resending to support

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> - To: ken@gesn.com, shortspin@mindspring.com
> - Subject: Re: Wireless transmission
> - From: SKGLOBAL@aol.com
> - Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:13:53 EST

>     Barry,

>     I'd revisit the issue of "managing" modems.  This seems like a red herring to
>     me.  In Seattle we used 35 modem lines on a rollover.  Once the lines were
>     installed and modems hooked up there was literally nothing else we had to do.
>     We were able to xfer about 400 polling locations with an average of 5-6
>     precincts each and a large 14" ballot.  Personally, I think wireless will not
>     work as well as our standard technology, and that there would be alot more
>     aggravation due to weather, shadowing of signals, etc.  After the debacle in
>     Hawaii and Dallas, does ESS still have alot of credibility in Minnesota?
>     Here's a sample article.

>     <HTML><FONT  SIZE=3 PTSIZE=10>Subj:	<B>hawaii</FONT><FONT  SIZE=3 PTSIZE=10></B><BR>
>     Date:	2/3/99 2:03:03 PM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
>     From:	Fkglobal<BR>
>     To:	SKGLOBAL<BR>
>     CC:	rob@gesn.com<BR>
>     </FONT><FONT  SIZE=3 PTSIZE=10><BR>
>     Published Wednesday<BR>
>     February 03, 1999<BR>
>     <BR>
>     </FONT><FONT  SIZE=5 PTSIZE=16><B>Omaha Firm Offers to Pay for Recount</FONT><FONT  SIZE=3 PTSIZE=10></B><BR>
>     <BR>
>     BY STEVE JORDON<BR>
>     <BR>
>     WORLD-HERALD BUSINESS EDITOR<BR>
>     <BR>
>     An Omaha election-equipment company has offered to pay to recount ballots in Hawaii's 1998 general election after an audit of new electronic-polling<BR>
>     machines showed some of them malfunctioned.Election Systems & Software of Omaha, whose machines count some 60 percent of ballots cast in the<BR>
>     United States, provided 300 machines used in the election in Hawaii.<BR>
>     <BR>
>     Newspapers in Hawaii reported that 35 of the machines have been examined and that seven machines malfunctioned, according to the Associated<BR>
>     Press. Tom Eschberger, a company official, said the company has offered to pay for a recount.<BR>
>     <BR>
>     "We would support any type of manual recount for the entire election, and have even offered to pay for it," Eschberger said. "We would not do that if we felt<BR>
>     that this election was going to be flawed."<BR>
>     <BR>
>     With Election Systems equipment, voters mark paper ballots which are then counted by electronic scanning machines. One of the strengths of the system,<BR>
>     company officials have said, is that paper ballots are available for recounts. Some mechanical voting machines tally votes but have no paper ballots to recount.<BR>
>     <BR>
>     Election Systems is privately owned by employees, management and a partnership that includes the McCarthy Group, an Omaha investment banking firm, and World Investments, a division of the Omaha World-Herald Co., which publishes The<BR>
>     World-Herald.<BR>
>     <BR>
>     Hawaii's Senate may look into the election results because of a pattern of errors discovered in an audit of the polling machines, according to published<BR>
>     reports.<BR>
>     <BR>
>     Senate President Norman Mizuguchi said he was trying to confirm reports that several machines malfunctioned. "My responsibility at this point is to<BR>
>     pool all the information together," he said. "I haven't finalized anything as yet."<BR>
>     Sen. Colleen Hanabusa, an Oahu Democrat, had called for a Senate investigation of the Office of Elections based on over-votes in a precinct in the 44th House District. She said she wants to head the investigation.<BR>
>     <BR>
>     Over-votes means more than one vote was cast on one ballot in the same race.<BR>
>     Sen. Rod Tam, also an Oahu Democrat, said he and Hanabusa were drafting a Senate resolution calling for an investigation of the election procedures and<BR>
>     state Chief Elections Officer Dwayne Yoshina.<BR>
>     There are allegations that Yoshina told certain government officials about inaccuracies in the new voting system before the election, Tam said. "There<BR>
>     are questions as to whether the election was fixed, and why some of these elections were close."<BR>
>     <BR>
>     The Associated Press contributed to this report.<BR>
>     Back...<BR>
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