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March 24, 2008 (Computerworld) A New Jersey association of county clerks last week called on state Attorney General Anne Milgram to investigate possible discrepancies in e-voting machines used in last month's presidential primary election.
Clerks from a half-dozen counties reported discrepancies in the tallies generated by about 60 Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. devices during the Feb. 5 election, according to the Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey.
Most cases involved one- or two-vote differences between a machine's paper trail and its memory cartridges, it said.
"We want to know what the problems were and how to fix them," said Michael Dressler, president of the association.
Sequoia blamed the problem on poll-worker error and said it could be fixed with a software update. But the county clerks want a third-party investigation.
Michelle M. Shafer, Sequoia's vice president of communications, said that the firm hired Kwaiden Consulting to review the e-voting machines as part of a federal certification process. "We'd like it to be an objective third-party review," she said.
A spokesman for Milgram wasn't sure further investigation was needed. "We think we know what happened," he said.
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