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

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Section :  3.4
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Comment :  Official data in Maryland The “unofficial” data discussed above is confirmed by evidence
from official sources. The Maryland Board of Elections secretly placed all Maryland voting
machines on lockdown following the 2004 General Election as a result of extensive machine
failures experienced. TrueVoteMD received information from anonymous insiders in at least
two Maryland counties regarding the lockdown and the inability of the voting machine vendor to
explain the failures (for example, see the memo posted at
http://www.truevotemd.org/Resources/DieboldMemo21605.
jpg). An afterelection
memorandum from the Montgomery County Board of Elections states that they had trouble
tickets on 7% of their machines and suspected another 5% of having lost recorded votes, for a
total of 12% actual or suspected machine failures. The relevant material can be found on page 11 of the memorandum posted at http://www.truevotemd.org/Resources/Lessons_Learned.pdf), a
portion of which is reproduced as Appendix A to these comments.