The mission of the Oregon Voter Rights Coalition is to restore public ownership and oversight of elections, and to ensure the fundamental right of every American citizen to vote and to have each vote counted as intended in a secure, transparent, impartial, and independently verified election process.
Oregon Election Equipment Vendors
Submitted by Ginny on Mon, 06/05/2006 - 7:21am
Oregonians vote on paper ballots, but our ballots are counted by optical scanners and central tabulators. Both these devices operate using software produced by our voting system vendors, ES&S and Sequoia. The contracts governing the sale of voting equipment to Oregon counties prohibit disclosure of the vote counting software used to operate the vote counting equipment. The software is deemed a "trade secret" and is not reviewable by the public or even by our election officials. Moreover, as a "trade secret" the vote counting software is also exempt from Oregon Public Records laws.
The following links provide extensive documentation of ballot programming errors leading to miscounts. The errors were only caught by a verification procedure where officials hand counted the paper ballots. The vast majority of the errors were made by ES&S.
Sequoia in the News: A Partial List of Documented Failures
Oregon Election System Vendors
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Oregonians vote on paper ballots, but our ballots are counted by optical scanners and central tabulators. Both these devices operate using software produced by our voting system vendors, ES&S and Sequoia. The contracts governing the sale of voting equipment to Oregon counties prohibit disclosure of the vote counting software used to operate the vote counting equipment. The software is deemed a "trade secret" and is not reviewable by the public or even by our election officials. Moreover, as a "trade secret" the vote counting software is also exempt from Oregon Public Records laws.
The vendors who produce and supply Oregon's voting equipment are ES&S and Sequoia. This resource page provides documentation from news reports and other primary sources on equipment performance and related issues for each of these vendors.
ES&S
The following links provide extensive documentation of ballot programming errors leading to miscounts. The errors were only caught by a verification procedure where officials hand counted the paper ballots. The vast majority of the errors were made by ES&S.
ES&S ballot programming errors in June 6, 2006, Iowa Primary
Optical Scan Vote Switching in the News (Includes 2006 Primaries)
Map of Optical Scan Vote Counting Problems.
ES&S in the News: A Partial List of Documented Failures
VoteTrustUSA - ES&S Programming Is Unverifiable
SEQUOIA
Sequoia in the News: A Partial List of Documented Failures
VIDEO: “Protecting Your Vote”
