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Name :   Stanley A. Klein
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/30/2005

General Comments
Comment :  Empirical Evidence of Machine Unreliability
There is mounting evidence that voting machines perform no better than the FEC standards and
the draft VVSG allow. This evidence includes:
An 11.4% failure rate based on citizen observations in Maryland during the Novermber
2004 election.
A 12% failure rate reported in an afterelection
report of the Montgomery County,
Maryland Board of Elections

A 10-20%
failure rate reported in a mock election conducted by the California Secretary of State