[EL] Quick clarification

[Bev Harris]

That's in a database size of 600,000 with just under 300,000 of them actually
voting in the Nov. 2006 General Election.

>  As you can see, there are 22 double voters in an election with just under
300,000 voters. The first four may fall

One of the names in the list, James McWilliams, will come up again in my more
formal reports. He was removed from the rolls in October 2009 due to death. The
removal of Mr. McWilliams and three other persons caused the poorly-designed
Diebold/ES&S e-pollbook to RENUMBER all its voter IDs, scrambling the voter
history information.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I examined the Oct. 2009 e-pollbooks. Here's
what it did - I'm making up the IDs, but will include a screen shot of the real
ones in my report:

(for example) ID   Name
1                  Delois Wilson
2                  James McWilliams
3                  Ralph Foster
4.... on up to 599,000 voter numbers

When James McWilliams was removed in 2009, the ID column in the e-pollbook
renumbered to (for example)
1                  Delois Wilson
2                  Ralph Foster
3.... on up to 598,996 voter numbers

That is a different problem than the James McWilliams double vote in 2006,
because Shelby County did not start using the e-pollbooks until 2008, with the
first voter histories being logged into them in Oct. 2009. The alteration of
just four voters ended up renumbering the epollbook ID for over half a million
voters. The Diebold ES&S epollbook, called ExpressPoll, used in Maryland,
Georgia, and many other locations, DOES NOT REFERENCE the permanent voter ID or
the voter name when it writes a vote history. It uses ONLY its internal voter
ID number, which is renumbered each time a voter list is put in. That list is
purely chronological. It is not intuitive that removing one dead voter might
change the critical ID number for half a million other voters, and this is why
I characterize this as a significant design defect.

May James McWilliams rest in peace. The removal of his name was the key to
unlocking the problem behind a near-total meltdown of voter histories when
e-pollbooks were implemented in Shelby County.

Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

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