County ordered 2nd time to release election databases
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Correction version: An earlier version of this story had an incorrect photo.
A Pima County Superior Court judge has again ordered Pima County to turn over electronic databases from past elections to the Pima County Democratic Party.
The county wanted a code placed on the databases, but Judge Michael Miller rejected the request Tuesday.
Miller in May ruled in favor of the party in a lawsuit filed to obtain the elections databases dating to the late 1990s to examine whether the county's computerized vote and ballot tabulating systems are susceptible to hacking.
Miller said county attorneys had failed to prove that turning the databases over to the Democrats and any other political parties would create security threats.
The judge ordered the county to turn over electronic databases from past and future elections to all parties.
But county officials have balked on releasing them, arguing that the databases first should be given a code to ensure those held by the court are identical when turned over to both parties in the case.
Miller reserved judgment on whether the databases of future elections would be marked with a "cryptographic hash" as sought by the county for all the elections databases.
The county proposed a process where they could have polluted the data," Bill Risner, attorney for the Pima County Democratic Party, said Wednesday.
"RTA vote saga"?
Thanks and Good Luck
"Premier Election Solutions [formerly Diebold] has determined that a sharing violation may occur in the GEMS poster during the simultaneous uploading of results from multiple memory cards resulting in the contents of the affected memory card(s) not being posted to GEMS. Note that in this situation, the AVServer console will indicate the affected upload of the memory card(s) has been successful, (green arrow), when the upload has not, in fact, been successful."
In other words, when votes are uploaded from poling places to the central computer, some of them won't be counted though the machine will say that they were counted.
As if we don't have enough problems. There still has been no serious investigation into the inappropriate activities of Pima Elections Officials documented by testimony in the RTA trial. These same individuals will be in charge of counting our votes for the 2008 primary and general elections. Amazing!