So the county tries to explain away reports from the few voters who were able to get through by phone, and to state there WERE no security issues and no count discrepancies. Yet in one precinct observed by SAVE-Democracy's pollwatchers, so-called "security" stickers never actually covered the memory card doors even while the machines were in the pollworker's home. Contrary to what the County Report says, unless you're using a microscope, the stickers show no signs of tampering--but no one checked anyway. One pollworker never had to remove the stickers from the port doors (that cover the PCMCIA memory cards), because she was able to open the port doors even with the stickers there. Pollworkers' extra zip-ties (flimsy plastic ties holding the machines and card pouches closed) were never inventoried and stickers never inspected, so no one actually knows if machines were tampered with.
As last week's problematic voting machine roll-out dramatically increased complexity in San Diego's election system, the Registrar faces a 'catch-22' situation. By the time she must certify the election (28 days later), she won't yet have had a chance to review all pertinent information. Initial findings, published yesterday, say we won't receive (a) technical information from the vendor for two weeks, nor (b) the State's independent election review for 'several weeks'--possibly after the canvassing period. Although our group (SAVE-Democracy) held a town meeting for voters two days ago, one week after the election, no official voter town meetings are scheduled, and any adequate survey of 6000+ pollworkers about security issues and count discrepancies could take weeks (not that they're planning anything so comprehensive).