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AccuPoll to Present at CalTech/MIT Voting Project Symposium.


TUSTIN, Calif. -- Company President to Discuss Certification and Testing of Electronic Voting Systems, Highlight Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) or Verified Paper Record (VPR) was intended as an independent verification system for voting machines designed to assure voters that their vote was cast correctly, to detect possible election fraud or malfunction, and to provide a  System Friday

Frank Wiebe, president of AccuPoll Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

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) voting systems, will tomorrow discuss certification and testing of electronic voting systems at the CalTech/MIT Voting Project Symposium in Cambridge, Mass. Wiebe will also demonstrate the company's electronic voting system featuring a voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT VVPAT Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (voting machines) ), which allows voters to personally review a printed paper audit trail at the time they cast their vote.
Who:        CalTech/MIT Voting Project and Frank Wiebe, AccuPoll

What:       A public presentation about voting system testing and a
            demonstration of AccuPoll's electronic voting system
            featuring VVPAT at the CalTech/MIT Voting Project
            Symposium

When:       Friday, Oct. 1, at 1:30 p.m. EDT

Where:      MIT 32-141
            Stata Center Lecture Hall
            Cambridge, Massachusetts


The CalTech/MIT Voting project was established by CalTech President David Baltimore and MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology  President Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. The project works to evaluate the current state of reliability and uniformity of U.S. voting systems and proposes specific uniform guidelines and requirements for reliable voting systems.

For further information or to schedule an interview, contact Geoff Mordock at 949-200-4000, Ext. 106.

About AccuPoll Holding Corp.

With headquarters in Tustin, AccuPoll (OTCBB:ACUP) is the developer of a federally qualified electronic voting system featuring an intuitive touch screen input and a voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) that can be confirmed by the voter at the time the ballot is cast, creating a permanent paper audit trail as mandated in the "Help America Vote Act The Help America Vote Act (HAVA, Pub.L. 107-252) is a United States federal law passed the House 357-48 and 92-2 in the Senate[1] and was signed into law by President Bush on October 29, 2002.  of 2002" (HAVA). For additional information, visit www.accupoll.com.
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