COUNTY DECLARES E-VOTING RESULTS ACCURATE.Byline: TROY ANDERSON Staff Writer Despite widespread concerns about the integrity of electronic voting Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes. systems in November, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County officials certified the November election results Tuesday and said recounts and audits found they were accurate. Under the legally required manual count of 1 percent of ballots, Registrar-Recorder Conny McCormack said workers hand-counted more than 25,526 ballots in 88 precincts pre·cinct n. 1. a. A subdivision or district of a city or town under the jurisdiction of or patrolled by a specific unit of its police force. b. and compared the results with computer tallies to verify accuracy of the county's tabulation tab·u·late tr.v. tab·u·lat·ed, tab·u·lat·ing, tab·u·lates 1. To arrange in tabular form; condense and list. 2. To cut or form with a plane surface. adj. Having a plane surface. equipment. Staffers conducted additional manual counts to further verify results, she said. The audits ``demonstrated the integrity, accuracy and transparency of Los Angeles County's voting systems,'' she said. But David Troy III, who observes recounts, told the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. he's still concerned about electronic tabulation of votes. ``I'm so impressed with how well things are set up to work, the care taken with the cards, the surveillance. But here's what doesn't work there, and I have a big problem with this,'' Troy said. ``The secrecy aspect. Nobody was allowed into that tabulation room at all.'' McCormack did note some election glitches, including printers that jammed and new InkaVote Plus ballot readers that malfunctioned. The county recently spent $25 million to buy the new equipment, which includes a ballot reader that alerts voters if they made inadvertent errors. ``We received a number of complaints that people said the machines didn't work, either from poll workers or citizens,'' Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. said. McCormack said she plans to issue a full report in January on the ballot readers. She also is surveying all 5,208 precinct A constable's or police district. A small geographical unit of government. An election district created for convenient localization of polling places. A county or municipal subdivision for casting and counting votes in elections. PRECINCT. inspectors to find out how many experienced equipment failures. The only race the final vote changed involved the Alhambra City Council, Registrar-Recorder spokeswoman Marcia Ventura said. Election night results showed Carlos Chavez had 5,163 votes compared with 5,130 for Stephen Sham. But final results showed Sham won, 5,931-5,841, Ventura said. troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com (213) 974-8985 |
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