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NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Maria Rodale, Chairman & CEO of Rodale Inc., the world's leading healthy lifestyle publisher, today announced that Bill Phillips, who has led the unprecedented digital growth of Men's Health magazine as the title's online editor, has been named VP/Editor-In-Chief of the Men's Health brand, which includes the magazine, its digital platforms and branded books. He will report to Maria Rodale, effectively immediately.
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In addition, Men's Health Editor Peter Moore has been promoted to VP/Editor of the title, and Executive Online Editor Adam Campbell has been promoted to Editor of MensHealth.com. Both will report to Phillips.
David Zinczenko, who had served as EVP/Editor-In-Chief of the Men's Health brand and GM of the company's Healthy Living Group & Rodale Books, will leave the company by mutual agreement in advance of his contract expiration at the end of the year. He will continue to work with the company as an author for Rodale Books.
"Bill's ten years of editorial and digital expertise at the Men's Health brand make him the perfect choice to oversee such a venerable title," said Rodale. "Over the past decade, he and his team have been instrumental in creating a brand that both advertisers and readers trust, and I have the utmost confidence that he will continue to introduce the unparalleled content that keeps them ahead of the curve. As we enter the 25th anniversary year for Men's Health, we're bringing new vision to this important global brand."
"Dave has been a talented partner for our brand and books business over the past fifteen years. Under his leadership, Men's Health grew to become the largest men's magazine brand in the world, his book franchises were perennial bestsellers, and Women's Health grew at an incredible pace, both domestically and internationally. I am very thankful for his creativity and leadership, and truly wish him all the best as he grows in new ways and in new places."
Phillips joined Men's Health in 2003, serving as the Editor of MensHealth.com as well as Executive Editor of the magazine. During his time as the brand's online editor, Phillips quadrupled traffic from 2.5 million to a record 10 million monthly uniques. The site has been nominated for three digital National Magazine Awards under his leadership and has won twice in the Interactive Tool and Personal Service categories.
Phillips was also the Editor-in-Chief of Men's Health Living, a successful newsstand-only men's shelter magazine published in 2007 and 2008. He has been nominated for National Magazine Awards as both an editor and writer. His 2005 feature, "Hunting My Father's Killer," was a finalist in the Personal Service category. Prior to joining Rodale, Phillips was the Executive Editor of Popular Science. A graduate of Penn State, he resides in Macungie, PA with his wife and two soccer-loving daughters.
Men's Health was among the first titles to launch on the iPad, the first title to launch an iPhone edition, and has won numerous National Magazine Awards since its launch. The title's December ad pages show an +8.7% increase over the 2011 issue. (according to PIB)
About Men's Health
Men's Health is the go-to source for guys seeking the latest information and expert advice in their pursuit of a healthy and active lifestyle. Published 10 times a year in the U.S. by Rodale, Men's Health is the best-selling men's magazine on newsstands and provides its 12 million readers with the up-to-the-minute information on health, fitness, fashion, nutrition, relationships, travel, technology and finance. Men's Health is the largest men's lifestyle magazine brand in the world, offering 40 global editions, a host of apps for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry subscribers, as well as branded books, eBooks and microsites. The magazine has garnered numerous industry accolades, winning National Magazine Awards in the general excellence and personal service categories as well as being deemed by Media Industry Newsletter as the "#1 Most Notable Magazine Launch of the Last 25 Years." Men's Health has also made several appearances on Advertising Age's "A List" and Adweek's "Hot List." For up-to-date news from Men's Health, visit www.menshealth.com, and get instant updates on Twitter (@MensHealthMag) and Facebook (Men's Health).
About Rodale Inc.
Rodale is a global lifestyle company with a mission to inspire and enable people to improve their lives and the world around them. Through a broad portfolio of leading media properties, Rodale reaches more than 70 million people around the world through multiple distribution channels, including magazines, books, online, mobile, e-commerce, direct-to-consumer and video. Rodale publishes some of the best-known health and wellness lifestyle magazines, including Men's Health, Prevention, Women's Health, Runner's World, Bicycling, Running Times and Organic Gardening, and is one of the largest independent book publishers in the United States with a collection of bestselling titles including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, Eat This, Not That! and Flat Belly Diet. The company is also widely regarded as a digital leader in the areas of health and fitness and has launched three digital properties—Fitbie.com and YouTube channels 3V and Tasted. Rodale continues to expand its reach through an ever-growing list of award winning mobile applications and partnerships, and is a leader in direct-response marketing with more than 27 million active customers in its database. To learn more about Rodale, visit www.rodaleinc.com.
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Are You Ready for Some Courage (and Football?)
An annual favorite, the Courage Bowl, is right around the corner. On Saturday, November 16, the St. John Fisher College Cardinals will take on the Alfred University Saxons at Growney Stadium at 1:00 p.m. And while the Cardinals will be fighting for another win during the final home game of the season, they will be fighting for so much more.
The Courage Bowl, coined "more than just a game," raises money to benefit children and families of Camp Good Days and Special Times every year. The game was established in 2005 as the annual football game between the Fisher Cardinals and the University of Rochester Yellowjackets, to benefit the children and families served by Camp Good Days. Last year's Courage Bowl was the final game in the series between the Cardinals and the Yellowjackets. And while the Cardinals will face Alfred University this year, they will play against The College at Brockport Golden Eagles in future games when the Golden Eagles join the Empire 8 Conference in 2014.
"Many children with cancer dream of being a part of a college football team, but due to their illness and treatment, will never have that opportunity," says Mervis. "For the past eight years, some of the campers from Camp Good Days have had that chance, thanks to the Courage Bowl. In what has truly become so much more than just a football game, we are all looking forward to the next chapter of the Courage Bowl and being able to celebrate the courage and strength of all those dealing with cancer and being able to generate some much needed funds to create some good days and special times for some children and families."
As part of the game, Camp Good Days will present the Fourth Annual Courage Award during the pre-game festivities. The Camp Good Days' Courage Award is presented to someone who displays courage, strength, and determination in a time of great struggle.
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Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures "A common practice for local election officials is to let election companies run their election — make up their ballot, set up their machines, and even count their tallies. This is a dangerous practice." ~ Ted Selker, Cal Tech/MIT Voting Technology Project. 1 Date Machine Place/Description July 1996 AVC Edge Clark County, Nevada. Malfunctions during the state certification test don't prevent officials from approving the system.2 In July, 1996 a public test to certify Clark County's Sequoia Pacific machine for early voting was conducted. During the test, a cartridge malfunctioned: also the examiner (selected by the state) had difficulty casting his vote. He had to vote 51 times rather than the designated 50, an option not afforded the voter should the machine malfunction in an actual election. In spite of these malfunctions, the machine was given certification—the equivalent of declaring it accurate, reliable and secure. Seventy-five people witnessed this test from a cordoned-off position approximately 20 feet away. Election officials removed cartridges from the SP machine for future verification but shortly thereafter the cartridges disappeared. Registrar Kathryn Ferguson, immediately notified the FBI. To date, neither the FBI nor Ms. Ferguson will comment on the disappearance. 1996 AVC Edge New Orleans, Louisiana. Evidence of fraudulent programming was filmed by one of the candidates. 2 According to Voting Integrity Project (VIP) based in Arlington, Virginia, there have been instances, especially in 1996's hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Louisiana, where the program governing the operation of the Sequoia Pacific machine was altered before the election. Tests performed and videotaped by candidate Susan Barnecker in New Orleans in 1994 demonstrated that votes she cast for herself were electronically recorded for her opponent. This test was repeated multiple times with the same result thus confirming that the machine had been fraudulently altered to influence the outcome of the election. November AVC Edge Riverside County, California. 2000 ...during the 2000 presidential election, a computer from Sequoia began dropping touch-screen ballots from the vote tally. A Sequoia salesman who was on hand intervened and fixed the problem.3 1 Touch to Vote: More Americans to Vote on Electronic, Touch-Screen Systems in November. ABC News. July 18, 2004. http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Politics/e-voting_040718-2.html 2 Clark County's Vote: How Secure Is It? Nevada Journal. August, 1998. By Lois Gross. http://nj.npri.org/nj98/08/democracy.htm 3 Electronic voting's hidden perils. Mercury News. February 1, 2004. By Elise Ackerman. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/election2004/7849090.htm Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 1 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description January Sequoia Phil Foster, regional sales vice president of Sequoia, was indicted for an elections kickback scheme in 2001 executive Louisiana. He was allegedly involved in a conspiracy and money-laundering scheme that involved the sale of machine parts at inflated prices and kickbacks of nearly $600,000. Sequoia was not involved, nor was the company charged. 4 In April 2002, a Louisiana state judge dismissed the charges against Foster, ruling that the prosecutors' case depended upon Foster's grand jury testimony against others involved. Foster was granted immunity for his testimony. 5 March 2002 AVC Edge Palm Beach County, Florida. Touch screens froze up, registered incorrect vote. (DRE) Touch screen machines sometimes froze up when voters selected which language to use. Phil Foster from Sequoia Voting Systems said that was a software programming error. Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore also said she heard that some people touched one candidate's circle on the screen, only to see an X appear by another candidate's name.6 4 Out of Touch: You press the screen. The machine tells you that your vote has been counted. But how can you be sure? New Times; April 24, 2003; By Wyatt Olson. http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2003-04-24/feature.html/2/index.html 5 Out of Touch. http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2003-04-24/feature.html/3/index.html, and Exec's indictment hits Oakland vote firm. Ballotpaper.org. July 12, 2004. http://www.ballotpaper.org/archives/000525.html 6 Human goofs, not machines, drag vote tally into next day The Palm Beach Post, 14 March 2002; reported in "Black Box Voting" Chapter 2 by Bev Harris Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 2 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description March 2002 AVC Edge Palm Beach County, Florida. Former Boca Raton Emil Danciu was ahead by 17 points in a poll conducted by the opposition. Exit polling indicated an overwhelming win for Danciu, but he received only 19% of the votes, even losing in his home precinct. Voters report that their votes appeared to be registered for his opponent. "What really alarmed us was the next day when we started getting phone calls from voters who had gone into the voting places -- people we didn't even know -- and pushed Emil Danciu's name only to end up with a check mark by Susan Haynie's name. They repeatedly tried to vote for him, but another name, particularly Haynie's, came up. They couldn't get their vote registered. They were telling wild stories about poll workers unplugging and kicking the machines. They didn't know whether their votes ever counted. Some were told to vote again." 7 In addition, the results were delayed because, according to the election supervisor's office, 15 cartridges had been lost, and the system won't give a final tally until it has read all the cartridges. The office said that a poll worker had taken them home, and then they found them. With no paper ballots to check the accuracy of the machine, Danciu sued for the right to look at Sequoia source code. The county attorney argued that it would be a felony to disclose the source because it is a trade secret. The judge denied Danciu's request for the software code. 8 March 2002 AVC Edge Palm Beach County, Florida. Councilman Al Paglia lost by 4 votes on a one-race ballot, but 78 ballots registered as blank. Voters also reported erratic behavior of the touch screens. Councilman Al Paglia lost his seat by four votes to Lizbeth Benacquisto during a runoff contest held March 26 in Wellington, a town of 42,000 in central Palm Beach County. Although Paglia and Benacquisto were the sole candidates on the ballot, 78 so-called undervotes were registered, meaning 78 voters used the machine but did not cast a ballot. That struck Paglia as odd because he'd garnered 45 percent of the votes during the primary run against three challengers. And then, he too began hearing stories from voters that the Sequoia touch screens had acted erratically.9 7 Out of Touch: You press the screen. The machine tells you that your vote has been counted. But how can you be sure? New Times; April 24, 2003; By Wyatt Olson. http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2003-04-24/feature.html/1/index.html 8 Electronic voting's hidden perils. Mercury News. February 1, 2004. By Elise Ackerman. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/election2004/7849090.htm 9 Out of Touch: You press the screen. The machine tells you that your vote has been counted. But how can you be sure? New Times; April 24, 2003; By Wyatt Olson. http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2003-04-24/feature.html/1/index.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 3 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description April 2002 AVC Edge Hillsborough County, Florida. 10 Vote data could not be transferred from 24 of the 26 data cartridges to (DRE) the readers that would transmit the totals to the central office to be tallied. Precinct totals were faxed over and entered by hand. "As of today, we still have not pinpointed the problem," Elections Supervisor Pam Iorio said Friday. "We have had three Sequoia employees looking at it, but they have not gotten to the bottom of it." November AVC Edge Bernalillo County, New Mexico. 11 2002 (DRE) Although about 48,000 people had voted early on 212 Sequoia-supplied touch-screen computers at six sites in the county, the initial figures given to the commissioners indicated that no race - not even for governor - showed a total of more than about 36,000 votes. The error went undetected for 10 days, when it was noticed by an attorney who had been monitoring the election for one of the candidates. Sequoia admitted that the same error had been encountered in Clark County, Nevada, several weeks earlier, but Sequoia had not informed the election officials in Bernalillo County. Commissioner Tom Rutherford accused Cramer [Howard Cramer, vice president and Western regional manager of Sequoia Voting Systems] of a "cover-up," and said Cramer had never intended to tell officials here about the problem. ... "We did not anticipate it would occur anywhere but in the Nevada election," he [Howard Cramer, vice president and Western regional manager of Sequoia Voting Systems] said. Sequoia's people here were not aware of the Nevada glitch, had not been alerted to watch for it, and had not been told how to fix it, he said. ... Upon learning Friday of the 12,000-vote gap, he said, Sequoia employees worked through the weekend in Denver to re-run the data - using the software patch this time - and make a new report that included the "missing" ballots. 10 Officials still searching for election glitch: The new system could not send the tabulations to the elections office. St. Petersburg Times; April 6, 2002; By Jeff Testerman, Times Staff Writer http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/06/Hillsborough/Officials_still_searc.shtml 11 Election results certified after software blamed. Albequerque Tribune; November 19, 2002; By Frank Zoretich, Tribune Reporter http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news02/111902_news_vote.shtml Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 4 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description November Optech optical Taos, New Mexico. A ballot programming error caused the Sequoia Optech optical scanner to assign 2002 scanner votes to the wrong candidates. Just 25 votes separated the candidates in one race; another race had a 79- vote margin. After noticing that the computer was counting votes under the wrong names, Taos County Clerk Jeannette Rael contacted the programmer of the optical machine and was told it was a programming error. 12 March 2003 AVC Edge Hillsborough County, Florida. Vote data could not be transferred from 2 of the 678 data cartridges to the (DRE) computers that would tally the votes. Precinct totals were faxed over and entered by hand. The only glitch occurred when two of the 678 cartridges containing voting results registered as non- formatted when they were downloaded at the elections service center. Those results were faxed from the downtown library and put into the database by hand. 13 October AVC Edge Riverside County, California. Source code for the Sequoia tabulation system was found on an 2003 unprotected Internet site. Software used by an electronic voting system manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems has been left unprotected on a publicly available server, raising concerns about the possibility of vote tampering in future elections. The software, made available at ftp.jaguar.net, is stored on an FTP server owned by Jaguar Computer Systems, a firm that provides election support to a California county. The software is used for placing ballots on voting kiosks and for storing and tabulating results for the Sequoia AVC Edge touch- screen system. 14 12 06/03/04. Conversation with a woman at the Elections Division of New Mexico. She told me Taos used the Sequoia Optech and confirmed that it was a programming error by the local programmer. New Mexico does not have their ballot programming done by the vendor. Original reference from Black Box Voting, Chapter 2. Albuquerque Journal, 7 November 2002; "Taos To Recount Absentee Ballots" 13 Elections Chief Sees Nearly Flawless Vote. St. Petersburg Times. March 5, 2003. By Kathryn Wexler, Staff Writer. http://www.sequoiavote.com/article.php?id=43 14 E-Vote Software Leaked Online. Wired News; October 29, 2003; By Kim Zetter. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61014,00.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 5 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description November AVC (DRE) Santa Clara County, California. After a battery problem occurred during the election, anonymous 2003 Sequoia technicians worked on the machines without any oversight from county officials. Following November's election in Santa Clara County, Sequoia sent over a group of blue-coated technicians to make adjustments to voting machines that experienced battery problems. For three weeks, the workers, employed by a Sequoia subcontractor, took apart the machines, removing their circuit boards and making adjustments. Nevertheless, Santa Clara County officials didn't know the name of the subcontractor and hadn't verified the identities of the workers it hired when the Mercury News made an inquiry. They also hadn't documented the changes being made to the machines. To find out such information, "you'd have to contact Sequoia," said Assistant Registrar of Voters Elaine Larson.15 November Optech 4C-400 Snohomish County, Washington. Optical scanners failed to read 21,000 votes on absentee ballots because 2002 two lights that read the ballots were worn out. 16 When the lights wear out, Sequoia determined, they stop reading some types of ink. ... Snohomish County was the first jurisdiction to catch the problem, said Sheree Noell, a sales executive for Sequoia. The problem came to light this winter when the Snohomish County Republican Party pointed out that up to 25 percent fewer votes than voters were counted in some county legislative races. Two recounts showed more than 21,000 votes were missed in the county's legislative races alone, although none of the corrected counts changed the election results. The Snohomish County Auditor's Office called Sequoia to analyze the machines. How long have they been failing to detect votes? "It's just something that we've been observing, and we've been thinking for a while that the undercounts were getting too high," said Frauna Hoglund, chairwoman of the Snohomish County GOP. 15 Electronic voting's hidden perils. Mercury News. February 1, 2004. By Elise Ackerman. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/election2004/7849090.htm 16 County's voting troubles spur changes nationwide. Seattle Times. January 29, 2003 by Emily Heffter, Times Snohomish County bureau. Archived at http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=5276 Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 6 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description November AVC Edge Santa Clara County, California. County selected Sequoia Voting Systems as the most qualified company 2002 to provide electronic voting equipment to Silicon Valley. The county incorporated extensive technical reviews and considerable input from the public in their 100- page report detailing their recommendation. In addition to the technical review, the county summarized user surveys completed by more than 5,000 voters who tested the systems, including more than 300 voters with disabilities. ... In addition to the county's technical review, the report included a summary of responses from surveys completed by voters. According to the surveys, voters were extremely pleased with Sequoia's ability to accommodate voters with special needs. Sequoia was the first choice of voters with disabilities as well as non-English-speaking voters. 17 Follow-up article next. 17 http://www.sequoiavote.com/article.php?id=44 Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 7 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description March 2004 AVC Edge Santa Clara County, California.18 Blind voters find the machines unacceptable and complain that Sequoia didn't listen to their suggestions. Disabled-rights groups have been some of the strongest supporters of electronic voting, but blind voters in Santa Clara County said the machines performed poorly and were anything but user-friendly in the March election. "`Very few of our members were able to vote privately, independently, despite Santa Clara County's supposed 'accessible' touch screens,'' Dawn Wilcox, president of the Silicon Valley Council of the Blind, wrote in a letter to the registrar of voters after the March primary. "I feel this is an unacceptable state of affairs.'' ... Wilcox said in an interview that she surveyed more than 50 members of her group after hearing anecdotal accounts of Election Day snafus. Only two members said the machines had functioned smoothly. About a dozen provided detailed descriptions of the problems they experienced using the audio technology that was supposed to guide them through the ballot and help them cast a vote in secret. Four voters said the audio function did not appear to work at all. Others waited up to half an hour for poll workers to trouble-shoot the devices. Sam Chen, a retired college professor, said he was happy to finally hear an initial message, but then the machine balked. After struggling for an hour, Chen asked a poll worker to cast a ballot on his behalf. ``I wish I had voted on my own,'' he said. ... Noel Runyan, a blind voter and computer scientist who is an expert in designing accessible systems, said touch screens are a good idea in theory, but they need a thorough redesign to work in practice. He said the voting companies appeared to have ignored feedback they solicited from groups of blind voters as they were developing their systems. Among the criticism provided by voters was poor sound quality, delayed response time and braille that was positioned so awkwardly it could only be read upside down. Chen, the college professor, also said the audio message required blind voters to press a yellow button. "Yellow means nothing to me,'' Chen said. "`I personally want them to be decertified for this election,'' Runyan said. "We need to make a strong statement that all these machines need to be redesigned on the user interface side. We've got a mistake here.'' 18 Blind voters rip e-machines: They say defects thwart goal of enfranchising sight-impaired Mercury News; May 15, 2004; By Elise Ackerman. Archived at http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=2102 Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 8 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description March 2004 Optech optical Napa County, California. The machines failed to record votes marked with dye-based ink. The error was scan found during a manual recount used to verify accuracy. After counting 60 ballots, officials discovered that the number of votes didn't match the votes recorded by the machines. Prior to the election, a Sequoia technician ran test ballots through the machine to calibrate its reading sensitivity, but failed to test for gel ink. 19 [Napa Registrar of Voters John] Tuteur said the machine dropped 6,692 votes out of a total of 468,001 votes cast on the more than 13,000 absentee ballots. He added that there was no pattern to the dropped votes: They spanned federal, state and county races and affected various candidates and ballot measures. 20 June 2004 AVC Edge Sequoia Software Source Code. Evidence of serious security problems shows up in source code left on an unsecured site by Sequoia. A team of university computer security scientists is currently studying the "WinEds" central tabulator produced by Sequoia Voting Systems. Preliminary work indicates that Spanish language ballots can be tampered with using this software, and that an unauthorized, uncertified program called "reverse.exe" resides on a very unusual location for a voting system (and one that most certifiers would never think to examine) -- the results cartridge itself. The "reverse.exe" program is used for ballots for the visually impaired, but researchers are concerned that it could open up back doors into manipulating the vote process for all voters. This program is referenced in Sequoia user manuals, but has never received a NASED number and has never been certified at all. 21 19 Lost E-Votes Could Flip Napa Race. Wired News; March 15, 2004; By Kim Zetter. http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62655,00.html 20 E-Vote Snafu in California County. Wired News; March 18, 2004; By Kim Zetter. http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62721,00.html 21 http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 9 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description June 2004 Insight (optical Dona Ana County, New Mexico. Machines failed the pre-election testing and were used in early voting. scan) In pre-election testing, counters that track the total number of ballots passed through the machine showed incorrect numbers. The counters in four out of five machines were incorrect, showing as many as 20 or 30 votes more than the actual number of ballots tested. Yet the machines were used in early-voting anyway. State Bureau of Elections computer specialist Steve Fresquez said Wednesday his director, Denise Lamb, briefed him on a problem with Insight machines before she went home for the day. "The machines have a protective counter that records all the votes cast on them. That counter was reading transactions incorrectly and advancing extra numbers," he said. The super-precinct feature, which totals the votes by Legislative district, gave incorrect totals, as they did in Curry County. Chief Deputy Clerk Coni Jo Lyman said officials at Ink Impressions, the Rio Rancho-based company that provided the Insight machines, told her the machines were capable of counting both ways [by precinct and canvassed]. But when county personnel attempted to get the super-precinct totals from the machines, the numbers were wrong. Election workers wound up counting the vote by precinct, which took extra time and labor. Ink Impressions president Terry Rainey denied Wednesday there is any problem with the machines or the "super-precincting" process.22 June 2004 AVC Edge Morris County, New Jersey. The tabulation system was unable to read the data from the touch screen (DRE) machines. Morris County's computerized voting tabulation system malfunctioned last night, forcing elections officials and computer experts to work feverishly late into the night to correct the problems. "Nothing has ever happened like this," said County Clerk Joan Bramhall. "There's data on the (computer) cartridge, but it's just not reading it. It shows zeroes."23 VotersUnite! followed up with Ms. Bramhall. The problem was that the C drive was full. The vice- president of Sequoia, who led her technicians through a process that deleted unnecessary information on the drive and "refreshed" the computer. Then they were able to read the cartridges. 22 Company denies problem with voting program. Clovis News Journal. June 3, 2004. By Jack King: CNJ Staff Writer http://cnjonline.com/engine.pl?station=clovis&template=storyfull.html&id=6358 23 Montville and Chatham mayors ousted. Star-Ledger. June 9, 2004. By Lawrence Ragonese and Kristen Alloway. http://www.nj.com/elections/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-3/108676553355551.xml (paid archives) Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 10 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description August 2004 Sequoia Veri- Sacramento, California. In a demonstration of its Direct Recording Electronic voting machine with a Vote paper trail, Sequoia demonstrated that its machine failed to report four votes in Spanish.24 Last week, Sequoia vice president and former California assistant secretary of state Alfie Charles was showing off the new Veri- Vote printer that his firm is supplying to Nevada when an astute legislative aide in Johnson's office noticed two votes were missing. Charles tried again to vote in Spanish with the same result: He cast votes on two mock ballot initiatives, but they were absent from the electronic summary screen and the paper trail. "The paper trail itself seemed to work fine but what it revealed was when he demonstrated voting in Spanish, the machine itself did not record his vote," Chesin said. "Programming errors can occur and the paper trail was the way we caught it." Charles said his company's touch-screen actually did record the electronic votes in its memory but through an oversight failed to reflect the votes on its electronic display and printout. "There's no problem with the way the equipment worked. It was a problem in the ballot setup," Charles said. "People do make mistakes and that's why you have ballot proofing. Because it was for demonstration purposes, we didn't put all the attention into it that we should have. That would never have occurred in a regular election." Another journalist reports: 25 Charles said the machine did record the votes accurately in its memory, but failed to record them on the paper trail and on the review screen that voters examine before casting their ballot. Swatt and Chesin could not confirm this, however, because the company did not show them evidence of the digital votes stored on the machine's internal memory. 24 Lawmakers cut e-voting's paper trail: Manufacturers demonstrating new printers in Nevada were embarrassed when machine failed to recognize votes. Tri-Valley Herald. August 13, 2004. By Ian Hoffman, Staff Writer. Reproduced at: http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=2512 25 Wrong Time for an E-Vote Glitch. Wired News. August 12, 2004. By Kim Zetter. http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64569,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 11 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description August 2004 WinEDS Hillsborough County, Florida. The computer indexing system malfunctioned. 26 election After the polls closed Aug. 31, [County Registrar Buddy] Johnson's computer servers mysteriously slowed management to a snail's pace, and the vote was not totally counted until 5:10 a.m. the day after the election. system After a diagnosis by Sequoia Voting Systems, the vendor that sold Hillsborough its $12-million package of touch screen voting machines, Johnson announced that a computer indexing system had malfunctioned, causing the server to repeatedly search through its entire data base before recording any single vote. A few days later, Johnson said he wasn't sure why the computer indexing hadn't worked properly but declared it "now fixed." September AVC Edge Hillsborough County, Florida. One early-voting touch-screen machine was left in test mode during the 2004 early voting period. It reported zero votes, since all the votes cast were recorded as test votes. Seventeen days after the primary, the error was caught and the 245 "test" votes were added into the results. 27 They brought the machine's results cartridge in for its results to be counted. And the machine reported zero votes. I talked to [County Registrar] Buddy Johnson on Monday. He was frank about what happened. The machine was left in test mode; his procedures had not contemplated such a possibility. "It would not leap out at you," he said, "that this was in test mode." The printout the machine produces indicated a test, Johnson said. But the poll workers had not been trained to look for it. From another article:28 Early voting began Aug. 16, and on the three machines at Westgate, a total of 1,050 votes were recorded even though about 1,300 people had signed in during the two weeks. The match between sign-ins and ballots cast is rarely 100 percent. Some people bail out without voting, and others don't complete the ballots. Those are called undervotes. "It didn't make a lot of sense that there was that many undervotes,'' Johnson said of the library situation. So officials began looking for other explanations. They found the answer Friday. On the machine mistakenly left in test mode, the votes were collected in a way that wouldn't be read later when the machine's data cartridge was fed into a tabulating computer. 26 245 Hillsborough primary votes go uncounted. St. Petersburg Times. September 18, 2004. By Jeff Testerman, Times Staff Writer. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/18/Hillsborough/245_Hillsborough_prim.shtml 27 Reminder on Election Day - this is not a test. St Petersburg Times. September 21, 2004. By Howard Troxler, Times Columnist. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/21/Columns/Reminder_on_Election_.shtml 28 245 Votes In Primary Originally Uncounted. Tampa Tribune. September 18, 2004. By Ted Byrd. http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGBVTP089ZD.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 12 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description September Veri-Vote Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas voters used the new electronic voting machines that produce a voter- 2004 verifiable paper ballot. A malfunction in the new software delayed tabulation of the votes. 29 Larry Lomax said, "I wasn't happy. I am always surprised when something doesn't work" Lomax, the Registrar of Voters, is talking about the software glitch that delayed the release of results Tuesday night. "They had to create new software that would support this printer and both voting machines we have. My guess -- in the process of getting it developed and federally certified, a bug that was there in 2002 must have crept back in. This has nothing to do with tabulating the results. It's the ability to tell the number of precincts reporting." September AVC Edge Snohomish County, Washington. As yet unexplained problems caused sixty-five touch screen voting 2004 machines to crash and smart cards to jam in the primary election. 30 The biggest problem the county encountered was the disabling of 65 of 860 e-voting machines because of a software crash and jamming of the smart cards. Although affected voters managed to use alternate machines and no previously tallied votes were lost, "we can't afford to have a repeat" of the breakdown during the November election, Terwilliger said. He has asked Sequoia Voting Systems, the machine vendor, to investigate the problem. McLain's confidence is further undermined by the absence of federal certification of software devised for the new primary voting system (King, Pierce and three other counties also lacked certification due to the change). Because of the relatively late primary-ballot change, Terwilliger said, only provisional certification through the Secretary of State's Office could be obtained. Federal certification will be done, but not till next year, Terwilliger added. 29 Software Glitch Delayed Release of Results. Eyewitness News. KLASTV. September 8. Colleen May, Anchor. http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2276229&nav=168XQi9D 30 E-voting vent: You can't tell if it worked. Seattle Times. September 20, 2004. By Paul Andrews. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002040563_paul20.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 13 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description September AVC Edge Hillsborough County, Florida. High percentages of undervotes in the primary election present the 2004 county with an unanswerable question since the paperless machines provide no method of doing an audit. 31 Hillsborough's undervote on countywide contests ranged from 9 percent in the race that re-elected State Attorney Mark Ober, to a whopping 17.5 percent in the race in which Charles "Ed" Bergmann was elected circuit judge. In Pinellas County, which uses Sequoia machines, the undervote on countywide contests ranged from 9.1 percent in a School Board race to 13 percent in a judicial contest. The question is: Why? Are voters refusing to vote? Or are votes not registering on electronic machines? ... People just undervote," [Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Buddy] Johnson said. Rob MacKenna, an Eckerd Corp. computer programmer who is the Democratic challenger to Johnson, strongly disagrees. ... MacKenna's skepticism about the cause of the undervote stems from the presidential preference primary last March, where a single question was listed on the ballot but where 255 Hillsborough voters, or 0.76 percent of the turnout, had no vote tabulated. Had 255 residents driven to the polls, signed in, walked to the touch screen machine, then decided to abandon the whole idea? MacKenna refuses to believe it. 31 Voting mystery stirs call for paper trail. St. Petersburg Times. October 4, 2004. By Jeff Testerman, Times Staff Writer. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/04/Tampabay/Voting_mystery_stirs_.shtml Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 14 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description October AVC Edge Snohomish County, Washington. County officials admit that 20 machines broke down during the 2004 primary. The machines have malfunctioned before, and they have no idea what the cause of the problem was ... but no votes were lost. 32 Twenty touch-screen voting machines broke down on Sept. 14 in Snohomish County, but officials said Tuesday that no votes were lost and no voter was prevented from casting a ballot. County elections manager Carolyn Diepenbrock said mechanical failures rendered the machines inoperable for the primary election. Some simply froze, while the viewing screens on others went blank. "We're still trying to figure out what triggered the mechanical failures," she said. "We don't have that answer yet." ... On the day of the primary, 20 of the 886 machines deployed in polling places had to be shut down after activation cards got stuck. While the problem has occurred in previous elections, it has never occurred on that many machines, Diepenbrock said. Sequoia technicians spent last week in Everett testing the machines that broke down, as well as and the ones that did not. They did not uncover the cause of the problem. 32 20 voting machines broke down. Everett Herald. October 6, 2004. By Jerry Cornfield, Herald Writer. http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/10/06/loc_voting001.cfm Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 15 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description October AVC Edge Palm Beach County, Florida. In the second day of early voting, touch screen machines failed and had to 2004 be replaced. Voters quickly lost confidence in the election process. 33 At Palm Beach County's West Boca branch library, voters were turned away Tuesday morning after touch- screen voting machines failed to work properly. Voting finally got underway at midday, after five new units were delivered. Lines snaked out from the library's small windowless conference room, which doubled as a makeshift precinct. Waits of two or three hours were not uncommon at many of the county's eight early voting sites. ... Seeing all this, Jane Weidman of Boca Raton said she had lost confidence in the system. "We are all here because we're afraid our vote is not going to count on Nov. 2," she said. "We can't vote. It's like Afghanistan. We're all in a long line. What's going on here?" ... Democratic poll watcher Rhoda Stern-Moss cleared up the mystery. "They tried to boot up the machines this morning and they wouldn't go, so they ordered new ones," she said. "No big deal." It was a big deal if you had waited a total of five hours in line Monday and left without voting, then spent three more hours in line Tuesday — Boca Raton resident Ann Dean's complaint. And the failure to boot up wasn't the only problem. Morris Jay of Boca Raton came Monday but left without voting. He was one of the first in line Tuesday and was not inspired by his voting experience. "I voted, but my machine froze," he said. "They fiddled around with it, then they closed it up. They gave me another card and I went to another machine." 33 Glitches, lines hamper early voting. Palm Beach Post. October 19, 2004. By John Murawski, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/news/feeds/1019vote.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 16 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description October AVC Edge Palm Beach County, Florida. User-unfriendly design of e-voting machines caused poll workers to err. 2004 The first day of early voting, poll workers in one location closed the election on early voting touch-screen machines, rather than just shutting down for the night. Now, the machines can't be used again in the election.34 Voting scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the county library branch west of Boca Raton didn't begin until about noon. Describing the poll workers as embarrassed by the mistake, LePore said they were so frazzled by the onslaught of voters and criticism on Monday that that they made a mistake. For regular elections, workers turn two knobs, one to turn off the power and the other to close the polls. For early voting, they're only supposed to turn off the power. They did both Monday night, which meant the machines couldn't be activated Tuesday. So all the machines at that location had to be taken back to the elections office to be counted on elections night, then replacements sent to be started for Tuesday's voting. October Printery Adams County, Colorado. Sequoia Voting Systems failed to print 13,000 absentee ballots ordered for 2004 Denver voters. 35 Residents wanted to know where their absentee ballots were. Election officials explained the delay with the Nader lawsuit and Columbus Day. But the phones kept ringing. Officials got suspicious, investigated, and discovered Monday that the California printer never printed the first batch of ballots, election commissioner Susan Rogers said. They are being printed now, though, and will be on their way to voters soon. "If people are leaving town or need one right away, they need to contact us," Rogers said. A phone call to Sequoia Voting Systems, the Oakland-based contractor that handles the printing, was not returned Tuesday afternoon. 34 Early balloting continues in Palm Beach County, and so do voters' gripes. South Florida Sun-Sentinel. October 20, 2004. By Anthony Man. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3298; http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pvoter20oct20,0,7789937.story?coll=sfla-news-palm 35 Absentee ballots 'lost' at printer. Rocky Mountain News. October 20, 2004. By Gabrielle Crist. http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/election/article/0,1299,DRMN_36_3267080,00.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 17 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description October AVC Edge Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties, New Mexico. Votes change on the screen and are resistant to voter's 2004 attempt to vote for their choice.36 Kim Griffith voted on Thursday— over and over and over. She's among the people in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties who say they have had trouble with early voting equipment. When they have tried to vote for a particular candidate, the touch-screen system has said they voted for somebody else. It's a problem that can be fixed by the voters themselves— people can alter the selections on their ballots, up to the point when they indicate they are finished and officially cast the ballot. For Griffith, it took a lot of altering. She went to Valle Del Norte Community Center in Albuquerque, planning to vote for John Kerry. "I pushed his name, but a green check mark appeared before President Bush's name," she said. Griffith erased the vote by touching the check mark at Bush's name. That's how a voter can alter a touch- screen ballot. She again tried to vote for Kerry, but the screen again said she had voted for Bush. The third time, the screen agreed that her vote should go to Kerry. ... In Sandoval County, three Rio Rancho residents said they had a similar problem, with opposite results. They said a touch-screen machine switched their presidential votes from Bush to Kerry. ... [Bernalillo County Clerk Mary] Herrera said she's heard stories from Democrats and Republicans. In some cases, when people have tried to vote a straight ticket, the screen has given their votes to every candidate in the opposite political party, she said. 36 Some Voters Say Machines Failed, Incorrect Choices Appear on Screens. Albuquerque Journal. October 22, 2004. By Jim Ludwick, Journal Staff Writer. http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/246845elex10-22-04.htm Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 18 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description October Tally software Bernalillo County. Tally software has added false votes to several elections in the last two years. 37 2004 The unresolved issue of phantom votes in Bernalillo County apparently dates back several elections over two years. County Clerk Mary Herrera acknowledged Monday that bogus votes have appeared in at least three elections. She says the problem began when the county purchased new election software for the vote tally machines it uses on election night. In one case, nearly four thousand phantom votes were added to just one race. However, the clerk says her vote-counting experts have always found the phantom votes before they were added to the final tally. In June 2004, Herrera sent an emergency request for help to Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron. Her office says it will help Bernalillo county fix the problem after this year's election. Vendors have been blaming it on communications, but in spite of efforts to fix the problem, Herrera still does not know what's causing it. 38 November AVC Edge Snohomish County, Washington. County Auditor Bob Terwilliger believes they have corrected the 2004 problems that caused 65 of the 860 paperless voting machines to be removed from service during the September primary. Some were "operational errors." Twenty were machine malfunctions. 39 Sequoia's Charles said the equipment-failure rate of around 2.5 percent is unusually high for an election. Moreover, Sequoia does not know why that many machines would fail for random and apparently unrelated reasons. The machines underwent rigorous testing and trials. But Terwilliger said the 20 breakdowns all involved circuit boards manufactured by a third-party vendor. Terwilliger also said Sequoia has not supplied a full machine-by-machine accounting of the breakdowns. ... If a similar number of machines fail tomorrow, it would suggest Sequoia "has some real problems on its hands," he said. Rare among election officials, Terwilliger has demanded an investigation into the cause, has released the results of the investigation, and is holding the manufacturer accountable. 37 County clerk say phantom votes won't be a problem. KRQE Albuquerque. October 26, 2004. http://www.krqe.com/expanded3.asp?RECORD_KEY%5BLargeHeadline%5D=ID&ID%5BLargeHeadline%5D=7425 38 Video is here: http://www.krqe.com/video/expanded3.asp?RECORD_KEY[Video3]=ID&ID%5BVideo3%5D=1054 39 Questions remain about touchscreen voting machines. Seattle Times. November 1, 2004. By Paul Andrews. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002078349_paul01.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 19 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description October Paperless Cibola, New Mexico. Early voters complain about the electronic voting machines supplied by Ink 2004 e-voting Impressions. Checked by a police officer, it's clear that voters must touch the screen exactly right for the machines vote to register correctly. 40 October Touch screen Sandoval County, New Mexico. Problems plagued early voting. Both major political parties said that 2004 machine errors may have caused votes intended for one side to actually be cast for the other. In addition four machines had electrical problems and had to be taken out of service. 41 The complaints were widespread: ♦ Three Republican voters spoke at a news conference, saying they were not sure if their votes were cast as they intended. ♦ Stan Read, the Republican candidate for judge in the 13th Judicial District, said he was not initially allowed to vote for himself or House candidate Glenn Walters and that he had to vote for an unopposed Democratic candidate in another judicial race to make the machine accept his ballot. ♦ At least one other voter had a similar experience, having to vote for a Democrat he didn't favor to make sure the machine would cast his entire ballot. ♦ A Rio Rancho woman who attempted to vote a straight Republican ticket said the machine switched all of her votes to Democrat. She said her daughter attempted to vote straight Republican, but her votes were all switched to the Green Party. Pat Rogers, attorney for the Republican Party, expressed grave concerns about electronic voting. "These are machines that supposedly were certified and verified before the election," Rogers said. "These machines that are turning Republican votes into Democrat votes ought to be of concern to everyone who wants an honest count in this election." 40 Voting machines check out perfectly. Cibola County Beacon Online. http://www.cibolabeacon.com/articles/2004/10/30/news/news3.txt 41 Concerns rise on early voting. The Rio Rancho Observer. October 26, 2004. By Eric Maddy, Observer staff writer. http://www.observer-online.com/articles/2004/10/26/news/story2.txt Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 20 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description November Advantage New Mexico. Presidential undervote rates (ballots without a vote for president) were greater for ballots 2004 cast on the Advantage than those cast on any other type of system used on Election Day. One in every 19 ballots cast on Advantage machines did not register a vote for president.42 November AVC Edge Snohomish County, Washington. Voters in at least four polling precincts in Snohomish County said they 2004 have encountered problems with the Sequoia electronic voting machines. When they touched the screen to vote for a candidate, an indicator showed they had selected the opposing candidate. It took at least four attempts before the indicator showed the correct candidate. 43 Those voters told KING5 News it took at least four attempts before the indicator showed the correct candidate. When they finished their selection, a review list generated by the machine did show a correct voting ballot. KING5 News North Sound Bureau Chief Jane McCarthy said a precinct worker told her that if there is a problem with a voting machine, it would be taken out of service if the problem cannot be fixed. Snohomish County Auditor Bob Terwilliger told McCarthy he didn't feel this was troubling. He said the problem only occurred in 15 out of 950 electronic voting machines being used throughout the county. 42 Summary Report on New Mexico State Election Data. December 12, 2004. by Ellen Theisen and Warren Stewart. http://www.votersunite.org/info/NewMexico2004ElectionDataReport-v2.pdf 43 Scattered reports of voters being blocked and machine malfunctions. November 2, 2004. KING5 News. http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_110204ELBelectronicvotingproblemsLJ.1aac5fda.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 21 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description November AVC New Orleans Parish, Louisiana. In Louisiana, state election officials received about 200 complaints of 2004 Advantage problems with machines, including two confirmed reports of Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machines in New Orleans Parish that were not working, according to Scott Madere, press secretary for the Louisiana Secretary of State. 44 November AVC Edge Palm Beach County, Florida. In addition to seeing voters who had been told to go to the wrong precinct, 2004 others who found their polling place closed with no sign telling them where it had been moved, and poll workers giving incorrect instructions, one observer in Palm Beach saw touch screens repeatedly registering incorrect votes and resisting correction.45 Tina [Knight] worked nine hours election day. She talked to a woman who said the voting machine had repeatedly registered the wrong presidential candidate. After 8 or 9 tries, it finally showed the candidate she had selected. "Another lady said when she got to her review screen," at the end of the voting process, "the opposing presidential candidate was listed. . . . She called the poll worker and demanded it be fixed. The poll worker went back through the screens" and agreed the woman had voted for a different candidate than the review screen showed. "The poll worker said, 'The review screen is wrong, but just go ahead and punch the confirmation button.' The woman refused. She made the poll worker cancel out the transaction, and she voted again. But how many people would do that -- go against what the poll worker advised?" 44 E-voting problems reported as election gets under way. IDG News Service. November 2, 2004. By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service, Boston Bureau. http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041102evoteprobs/ 45 'Lowdown tricks' sap poll-watcher's faith in fair U.S. voting. The Oregonian. November 23, 2004. By Margie Boulé. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/margie_boule/index.ssf?/base/living/1101215142230890.xml Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 22 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description December AVC Edge Elko County, Nevada. A month after the election, it was discovered that 271 uncounted votes had not 2004 been retrieved from the memory cartridges. 46 [Elko County Clerk Win Smith] said the missing votes were discovered late Thursday when county employees inputting voter history into the system discovered that the number of voters and the number of votes did not match. "We found out all the votes were not counted," she said. Smith said she contacted Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., the Oakland, Calif.-based hardware and software firm that provided the touch-screen system, and the company provided assistance in finding and correcting the problem. "We walked it through," she said. "We easily got the votes out of those cartridges." VotersUnite spoke with Ms. Smith and discovered that the voting machines had been left in test mode on election day, so the upload process had disregarded the votes. Problems had occurred with those machines and cartridges on election day, but Ms. Smith and her staff didn't understand their significance, since they had received no training on using the machines before the election. 1) Those three machines had not printed out the end of day report. 2) When they attempted to upload the three cartridges, the screen on the central computer went "blue" and they thought the card reader had failed. The Sequoia technician took the cartridges into his nearby office to use his card reader. Ms. Smith thought they had been successfully read, but only found out later that they had not. September AVC Edge Snohomish County, Washington. Calibration problems claimed by county officials.47 Touch screens 2005 failed to register votes: There were glitches with technology. Two touch-screen voting machines suffered "minor calibration issues" that poll workers corrected, she said. In both cases, the computers would not accept voters' initial selections. And card activators weren't set up correctly: Also, several of the voter card activation devices required resetting because they did not have the right time and date readings. Those calibrations were corrected, Diepenbrock said. 46 Missing votes found in machines. Elko Daily Free Press. December 8, 2004. By Dave Woodson, Staff Writer. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=4147 47 Election process sees few gremlins. Herald.net. September 21, 2005. By Jerry Cornfield. http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/09/21/100loc_election001.cfm Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 23 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description March 2006 AVC Edge Pinellas County, Florida. Touch screen voting machines malfunction, switch votes on the screen. 48 One candidate watched his vote for himself switch to his opponent. And on Election Day Cook charged that the voting machines malfunctioned in several precincts, including his own precinct at Skyview Recreation Center. When Cook tried to vote for himself, the machine defaulted to a vote for Taylor. A precinct worker finally moved Cook to a different booth. Later in the day, Cook said he had other reports of voting machines malfunctioning in similar ways. Nancy Whitlock, communications director for the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office, said there had been a problem at Cook's precinct. One machine, she said, registered a different answer when voters touched it. Poll workers recalibrated it to fix the problem. March 2006 AVC Edge Pinellas County, Florida. Group calls for audit of March 7 elections. Members say the results are "highly suspect" after an elections staffer was given the code to a computer server. 49 State regulators are weighing an audit of Pinellas County's March 7 municipal elections, which snagged when a computer server froze and delayed the tallying of votes for two hours… At 8:38 p.m. a server used to tabulate results failed. Pinellas Park results had been tallied, but Largo and Palm Harbor votes had not. Twice, a Sequoia support technician trying to get the server running provided Armstrong with the computer code, once by e-mail. County election officials say the code was used to check the system for bugs and to see if any new votes were stored for counting. Clark, the county's elections chief since 2000, has had problems before. In some cases, ballots have been lost or not counted. Last Tuesday's gaffe happened because too little space had been set aside on the server to handle the volume of data that had to be tabulated. 48 Incumbents return in a big way. March 8, 2006. By ANNE LINDBERG, Times Staff Writer. http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/08/Neighborhoodtimes/Incumbents_return_in_.shtml 49 Group calls for audit of March 7 elections. St. Petersburg Times. March 14, 2006. By Will Van Sant. http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/14/Northpinellas/Group_calls_for_audit.shtml Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 24 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description March 2006 AVC Edge Palm Beach County, Florida. Paperless e-voting machines fail to start up; activation cards malfunction.50 Electronic cards got stuck in voting machines. Pricey touch-screen gizmos weren't working when voters showed up to cast their ballots. 50 Several voters reported getting an "invalid card" error: Anderson said the most frequent complaint concerned cards that wouldn't properly activate the machines, usually because nobody had cleaned grime off the cards' magnetic strips. Other voting machines needed rebooting in midday, Anderson said, and some polling places opened later than 7 a.m., deputy elections chief Charmaine Kelly said. "By now we should have this under control," fumed West Palm Beach lawyer Rand Hoch, who said he showed up at the city library after 9 a.m. only to find two of three voting machines not working. "We should have the best voting equipment anywhere in the world. I guess we still don't." VotersUnite wonders, have we traded clogged chad collectors for grimy magnetic strips? 50 Voting smooth despite glitches. Palm Beach Post. March 14, 26006. By Robert P. King http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2006/03/14/0314glitch.html Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 25 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description March 2006 Dual System: Cook County, Illinois. Results delayed, printer jams, machine failure, audio ballots failed, long waits, AVC Edge missing cartridges. Touchscreen Results delayed, printer jams, waits up to three hours. 51 with Verivote Printer & "At the other location, the printer on the touch screen wasn't working, it was jammed, and we had to get Optech Insight someone to come in," Dekker said. Optical Scanner Remote transmission of results delayed - Cook County uses a dual system that requires more complicated procedures in combining and reporting vote tallies by precinct. 52 For an important local race, the Democratic nomination for the Cook County Board president, were delayed until Wednesday. Audio ballots failed. Equipment failed, long hours of waiting for voters, voters turned away. The oversized optical-scan paper ballots jammed in some machines, while audio equipment for blind voters was not installed or did not work in other places… In suburban Cook County, election officials said about 10 optical scanners and 15 touch-screen machines were swapped out during the day … City officials still were counting their equipment failures but said at least two machines needed to be replaced and 30 to 40 needed repairs during the day. In suburban Summit, election officials confirmed that at least a dozen voters were turned away from the polls in one precinct. There were no Democratic ballots to feed into the optical- scan machine and the power cord for the touch-screen machine was missing…Maria Pesquina said she first showed up to vote at 7:20 a.m. but didn't cast a ballot until 12:30 p.m. 414 Memory Cartridges Missing 53 At noon Wednesday, Chicago was missing 252 memory cartridges, 93 from machines that scanned in paper ballots and 159 from touch screens. County officials couldn't find 162 memory cartridges from suburban precincts--68 from optical-scanning machines and 94 for touch-screen balloting. 51 Low Turnout, Voting Machine Problems Reported. CBS 2 Chicago, Mar 21, 2006. Rafael Romo reporting. http://cbs2chicago.com/seenon/local_story_080134211.html 52 Machine Woes Slow Vote-Counting in Illinois. Washington Post, March 22, 2006. Staff writers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032202171.html 53 New machines, poor training slowed count. Chicago Tribune. Mar 23, 2006. James Janega, John McCormick and David Kidwell, Tribune staff reporters http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0603230212mar23,1,353880.story?page=1&coll=chi-technology-hed Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 26 Sequoia in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures Date Machine Place/Description March 2006 Dual System: Cook County, Illinois. Contract revokation considered because of problems in March 21 Primary.54 AVC Edge Thousands of votes in more than 50 precincts went uncounted where Sequoia machines were in use. Touchscreen Tabulation problems were cited by officials. with Verivote Printer & "The administration of this election was a train wreck," [Commissioner Forrest Claypool] said. Optech Insight Thousands of votes in more than 500 precincts went uncounted Tuesday night in the county and in Chicago, Optical Scanner which also uses the high-tech system provided by Sequoia Voting Systems. City and county election boards still hadn't tallied up all of the votes by Wednesday night. The system uses optical scanners and touch-screen voting machines. Some of the delay was blamed on the difficulty of combining results from the two machines. Some polling places were unable to transmit results to election headquarters. There were also paper ballots that wouldn't scan properly and had to be taken downtown. Minor breakdowns of some equipment exacerbated the problems, but Sequoia officials insisted Wednesday that the system "performed very well, overall." May 2006 Advantage Mercer County, New Jersey. Questions about how many voters participated in the May 2 elections caused several candidates to question results regarding runoffs and vote counts.55 The Trenton City Clerk said he had contacted the vendor, Sequoia some two months prior but had not heard back. The machines, already the subject of much criticism for being unable to produce a paper backup ballot, cannot count the number of people who participate in the at-large voting. 54 Vote snafu: Some blame new equipment. Chicago Sun-Times. Mar 23, 2006. by Steve Patterson. http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-machine23.html 55 Election eve quandary arises. The Times, May 5, 2006 by Joseph Dee. http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1146816804262970.xml?times?nxt&coll=5 Compiled by www.votersunite.org Page 27
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Greater Cincinnati's primary-care shortage about to get worse
The 32 million people who will become insured under the new health care reform act will place a major strain on the country's health care system, including in the Tri-State, experts say.
"There are simply not enough primary-care providers available to take care of all these newly insured individuals," said Dr. Peter Kambelos, an internal medicine physician who practices in Monfort Heights.
The legislation, much of which goes into effect in 2014, provides for more coverage by expanding Medicaid, penalizing employers who don't offer coverage, requiring individuals to have coverage and providing subsidies for families buying their own insurance.
Part of the legislation is meant to encourage people to seek care earlier, in a primary-care office setting, when conditions such as diabetes can be brought under control. If patients put off care until complications develop, they can end up in the emergency room, racking up high charges that wreck their own credit and, typically, end up getting absorbed by the health care system.
But today's medical students are choosing specialties, such as cardiology and dermatology, rather than primary care areas, such as internal medicine, family practice and pediatrics. In this way they can often obtain higher pay and better work-life balance.
Docs already in short supply locally
Greater Cincinnati has a shortage of 595 primary-care physicians, according to December data from the Cincinnati MD Resource Center, a free physician recruiting service formed by the nonprofit Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati. The area's 234 primary-care doctors per 100,000 residents compares to an "optimal" number of 261 per 100,000 that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data would suggest.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has warned of an impending national shortage of 40,000 such physicians by 2020. About 140,000 will be needed in all to meet the needs of the aging population, the group has said, but current trends suggest there will be only about 100,000.The U.S. Census Bureau puts the current number of uninsured at 45 million.
"People can have all the insurance they want, but if they can't get in to see anyone, it's not going to do anyone much good," Kambelos said.
Kambelos does not accept new Medicaid patients in his practice because he considers the reimbursement level too low. If one of his existing patients goes onto Medicaid, he continues seeing the person.
The Cincinnati Health Department is likely to benefit from the reform, said Medical Director Dr. Larry Holditch, because 50 percent to 60 percent of its patients are uninsured and a large portion of them will eventually become covered and have means to pay.
But the department already has waiting lists that can stretch for months. Holditch doesn't think the organization, which has 15 primary-care physicians, can take on more patients unless it expands.
"Long term, we as a society have to really enhance the primary-care practitioner," Holditch said. "We have to make it a much more agreeable place to end up in medicine."
Health care reform will, over the next five years, bring attention to the physician-supply problem, said Dr. Robert Graham, professor of family medicine at the University of Cincinnati's medical school.
Governments may offer incentives
The federal and state governments, he said, are likely to introduce more incentives for medical students to choose primary care and for already practicing doctors in the field to keep at it. A game-changer, Graham said, could be the medical-home model, in which patients interact with a physician-led team of nurses, physician assistants and disease educators, allowing practices to see more patients and focus extra attention on those who need it most.
A medical home pilot in Cincinnati has 11 practices and its 35 physicians receive reimbursement incentives from Anthem, Humana and UnitedHealthcare for implementing the concept. The program proved so popular that another 10 practices plan to move to the concept as "co-pilots" even without the additional reimbursement, said Graham, who is chairman of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Work Group, part of the Health Improvement Collaborative's Aligning Forces for Quality program.
The insurers have said it's too early to discern the reform's effects on premiums, plan structures or provider reimbursements.
Kambelos doubts the medical home model is the answer to many of the health care system's problems. He dislikes its focus on "physician extenders" such as nurses and assistants when, in his opinion, getting more doctors into primary care should be the focus. And he doubts that will happen until the government and private insurers commit to significantly closing the gap between reimbursement levels.
"As long as medical students look at primary-care salaries as noncompetitive and not consistent with the lifestyles they want to lead," Kambelos said, "the supply is not going to be there."
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Cougars, Huskies open bowl week in San FranciscoPosted Dec 23rd - 6:14pm by Greg Wrubell
SAN FRANCISCO - BYU puts its four-year bowl win streak on the line Friday night in the 12th annual Fight Hunger Bowl, taking on a Washington team that like BYU, is 8-4 on the season and looking to finish the 2013 campaign out on a winning note.
The Cougars are led by a tenured coach wrapping up his ninth season as BYU's bench boss, while the Huskies will be helmed by a former UW quarterback and quarterbacks coach serving a one-game stint as the interim head man, before Chris Peterson takes over in Seattle. The teams' records may be identical, but the back-story of each team's bowl preparation is disparate.
"This is a unique situation and circumstance our team has been faced with the last couple of weeks," said Washington interim head coach Marques Tuiasosopo at a bowl week press conference Monday at AT&T Park, "but what I think is more important--and it has really been brought to the fore-front--is the group of young men and their ability to come together as a team and finish what they started four or five years ago."
Van Noy and the Cougar offense are ready for one last testPosted Dec 20th - 9:14pm by Reggie Lewis, KSL.com Contributor
PROVO — The Cougars wrapped up practice in Provo Friday night, feeling ready for a tough game with Washington in the upcoming Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco.
BYU's senior class has produced some great players with great accomplishments over their 4+ years in the program. Among those accomplishments include a four game winning streak in bowl games. The seniors are hungry to finish most of their careers undefeated in bowl games and to set up the next year for the returning players.
"I'm ready to move on, but I'm ready to win and help set up the guys for next year" linebacker Kyle Van Noy said. "I hope to continue it (bowl win streak), and I hope to send the seniors out right."
BYU visits undefeated Oregon after 'tough week'Posted Dec 19th - 9:09pm by Greg Wrubell
It's arguably the toughest non-conference schedule in BYU hoops history, and it concludes Saturday at gleaming new Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, as the Cougars face the undefeated and nationally-ranked Ducks.
10-0 Oregon (No. 11 USA Today/No. 13 AP) is the fourth ranked team BYU has faced during its pre-West Coast Conference slate, thereby setting a new school record for most Top 20/25 teams faced in the non-conference portion of the regular season schedule.
So far, BYU has come up empty in games against ranked opponents, losing to Iowa State (8-0), Wichita State (11-0) and UMass (10-0). The Cougars' other setback was at Utah (10-1), so while the records are of little consolation to head coach Dave Rose, he acknowledges that his team is being tested.
Cougars fully focused on the HuskiesPosted Dec 19th - 8:11pm by Jason Shepherd
PROVO — With just a week remaining before facing the Washington Huskies in the Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco, the BYU Cougars returned to practice on Thursday to officially begin preparations for their Pac-12 opponent.
The Cougars haven't played a football game since ending the regular season on November 30th with a win at Nevada. With finals to prepare for, and with several players dealing with injuries, the break came at a good time.
"I feel fresh out there," linebacker Alani Fua said. "I feel rested, like the beginning of the season again."
BYU Basketball with Dave Rose 12-17-13Posted Dec 18th - 8:59am by Reggie Lewis, KSL.com Contributor
PROVO — Coach Dave Rose joined Greg Wrubell and the Cougar faithful at Malawi's Pizza for his weekly show Tuesday night. Coach Rose reviewed his team's effort against Prairie View A&M and Utah before previewing the Cougars' upcoming matchup with No. 11 Oregon on Saturday.
"We played really well on Wednesday night (against PVAMU) and I thought our guys bounced back well from our loss against UMASS last Saturday." The Cougars were beat Saturday by rival Utah 81-64 and struggled all game. "I think the most disappointing thing was that we didn't really recognize how we were playing and we couldn't find a way to fix that."
Against Utah, the Cougars struggled again from the free throw line as they shot only 54.8% from the line. "We didn't shoot the ball well at the free throw line and that puts guys sideways sometimes on how we want to execute because maybe they don't want to go back to that foul line after they've missed a couple." Coach Rose also expanded on the Cougars offensive deficiencies from Saturday saying, "We played hard and we challenged, but we were all over the place and we weren't ourselves. We didn't have patience at all offensively and instead of trying to get the best shot, we took the first shot. We never really clicked and found ourselves."
Rose prepares Cougars to face 'really good' Utes on SaturdayPosted Dec 13th - 6:23pm by Greg Wrubell
The last time BYU recorded eight consecutive basketball victories against the University of Utah, the game of basketball itself was barely 20 years old.
It was March 2, 1912, when the Cougars beat Utah for an eighth straight time, having won first eight games in the all-time series.
Flash forward more than a century, and BYU is poised to match that historical streak, with the Cougars taking a seven-game run of wins into Saturday night's meeting at the Huntsman Center.
Jamal Aytes transfers from UNLV to BYUPosted Dec 13th - 12:43pm by Greg Wrubell
After losing out to UNLV in a late-summer recruiting battle, BYU has ultimately landed 6-foot-6, 230-pound power forward Jamal Aytes.
BYU basketball head coach Dave Rose announced on Friday that Aytes will join the Cougar program; Aytes has signed a scholarship agreement with BYU, thus completing his transfer from UNLV.
BYU Basketball with Dave Rose 12-10-13Posted Dec 11th - 9:09am by Jason Ludlow, KSL.com Contributor
PROVO &mdash: Defense doesn't only win championships; it also wins regular season games -- especially road ones against undefeated and nationally-ranked opponents.
Defensive struggles have been the thorn in the Cougars' paws this season and were the theme of Tuesday night's installment of the weekly "BYU Basketball with Dave Rose" radio show at Malawi's Pizza at the Shops at the Riverwoods in Provo.
BYU's high-paced offense ranks 8th nationally at 89.9 points per game, but it's 80.4 points allowed ranks 318th nationally out of 352 teams. Last Saturday's game against No. 21 UMass was no improvement. The Cougars lost 105-96 -- the most points surrendered in a BYU defeat since losing to Arizona State 106-95 in 1993.
BYU focuses on defense with Prairie View, Utah on deckPosted Dec 10th - 6:17pm by Greg Wrubell
BYU opened the week as one of the top scoring teams in the country; the Cougars' 89.9 points-per-game average ranked 8th among all Division I teams, while their speedy pace of play ranked second nationally in terms of tempo.
On the defensive end, BYU's 80.4 points per game allowed ranks 318th nationally, and while the name of the game is simply to score more points than the opponent, the Cougars are giving added attention to team defense with Prairie View A&M and Utah on this week's slate.
BYU to face Washington in Fight Hunger BowlPosted Dec 8th - 7:27pm by Greg Wrubell
SAN FRANCISCO — The BYU Cougars will meet the Washington Huskies in the 2013 Fight Hunger Bowl game, it was announced today by Bowl Executive Director and co-founder Gary Cavalli.
The two teams, both sporting 8-4 season records, will square off on Friday, December 27 at AT&T Park in downtown San Francisco. The game is scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. PST/9:30 p.m. EST kickoff and will be shown to a national audience by ESPN. This year's kickoff marks a return to prime time for the first time since Nevada played Boston College in the 2010 postseason.
"What an exciting opportunity for the Cougars to travel to the great city of San Francisco for the Fight Hunger Bowl and to play Washington from the Pac-12," said BYU athletics director Tom Holmoe. "Our coaches, players and fans will love the holiday season in San Francisco. It's great to be able to add to the wonderful bowl tradition that is long associated with BYU football."
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Simple Turkey Stock
Let this simple turkey stock simmer away while you prepare the rest of the meal, then use as the base for our Roast Turkey with Giblet Gravy (pictured).
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Level: Easy
Yield: 6 cups
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- 6 c. water
- 4 stalk celery
- 1 large onion
- 1 bay leaf
- Giblets and neck from 1 (14- to 16-pound) fresh or frozen (thawed) turkey
- salt
- In 4-quart saucepan, place water, celery, onion, and bay leaf. Cover and heat to boiling on high. Add giblets, neck, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer 1 hour.
- Strain stock through fine-mesh sieve into large bowl. Discard vegetables, reserving and refrigerating giblets if making Giblet Gravy. Cover and refrigerate stock until ready to use, up to 3 days.
Nutritional information is based on a 1/2-cup serving.
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