What are the Diebold electronic poll books?
They are like a laptop with a smart card and a soft keyboard on the screen where you touch the letters. They control whether or not you get to vote. You put a smart card into an e-polling book. When the voter comes in, you enter the name and the voter registration pops up and tells you whether or not they voted already. Several were connected by a hub using Ethernet cable and the theory is that they update each other. We tested them and they weren’t working very well. I put in the name of someone that had been checked in [by] another machine 20 minutes before and it didn’t show that person as having voted. After a while, the names would show up, but they crashed so badly we had to take one off-line. We couldn’t check them and had no control over them. You mentioned there were problems with the AccuVote security tags? They’re yellow tags similar to ones you can get at Home Depot, and Diebold claims they prevent someone from installing a virus. They have nubs that click and can be pulled
