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Dr. Arnold to seek patent on invention - secure voting machine There may or may not be a new Mayoral election in Columbia. That is now in the hands of the judiciary and a ruling is expected any time now. Regardless of the outcome of the court ruling on the November 4, 2015, election, one positive thing appears to be coming of the episode: Dr. Ben Arnold has designed a new voting machine utilizing both ROM (Read Only Memory) and WORM (Write Once, Read Many) technology, which he says will be tamper proof. Within this article he presents his numbers and contentions, have never been posted on ColumbiaMagazine.com but may have been reported in other news sources earlier, which he contends add up to 232 unaccounted for votes, enough to have made the difference in the election, he says. Whatever the outcome in court, Dr. Arnold said, in asking that this letter - sent to local media yesterday morning - be printed, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if this machine is accepted and we could manufacture it here in Columbia"? Click on headline for complete candidate news/commentary of writer article. Comments voiced within the limits of civil discourse, about issues, not persons, are welcome. By Dr. Ben Arnold Personal commentary This local election has been a learning experience on election law and voting machines. Having reviewed the world database of patents on voting machines and most commercial brochures, it appears there is no current voting machine that is totally accurate and secure from tampering. I have therefore been working for weeks on the design of a new and more secure voting machine and system. That design will soon be filed as a US Patent. Some of the key elements of its design come straight out of the occurrences in our local election. For example, no absentee votes were included in the total votes for Write-in and this was discovered just 3 days before the trial. Whether an oversight or purposeful, voting technology is currently possible and disclosed in this patent that would prevent this from ever occurring again. Write-in votes are possible in most all elections. Current voting machines do not accurately count Write-in votes unless the box adjacent to the written in name is also checked. 67 Write-in votes were erroneously left out in this election due to this machine error. This is in direct conflict with both State and Federal law which clearly defines a Write-in vote as occurring when the surname is written in and does not require the box be check. The new design will provide a solution for this that is automated and verifiable. By counting the Voting Roster signatures and absentee stamps before the election contest, it was determined that 232 more voters presented to vote than votes that were reported by the Clerks Office. By counting of ballots and stubs in the election contest as ruled by the Judge, part of this discrepancy can be further explained. There were by counting 53 true undervotes as counted by the Committee. Including the above stated 67 machine errors and the disregarded absentee votes, the 232 unaccounted votes are reduced to about 100 votes. What accounts for these ballots and votes? 153 absentee voters presented to vote but only 108 absentee votes were reported. The Committee determined that 5 paper absentee were true undervotes and 2 were machine error concluding that 52 more voted paper than votes reported for Absentee. The other approximately 50 unaccounted votes were heavily related to the W. Columbia precinct. The new design voting machine and system provides for a random number generated bar code for each ballot which is later cross checked to insure that all ballots are accounted for. The new design includes a secure machine with triple verifications including machine marked paper ballots, electronic recorded votes controlled by a ROM memory (read only) and a WORM memory card (Write Once Read many Times) which when first written cannot be tampered with. The machine further provides for an automated and time stamped one way transmission of votes and tabulations to multiple receiving site simultaneously. The technology is available to prevent all of the irregularities in our election and other common ones not discussed here. (My conclusion is) that 182 ballots and votes are unaccounted for in this analysis. This is independent from all the irregularities presented in the trial that related to misclassifications of city voters or county voters receiving City ballots in error, the numbers from which cannot be determined (consider 10 city voting county and 10 county voting City. The same number of ballots are present inside the machine). Further and independently, another 53 eligible City voters were denied the right to vote City because of misclassification and lack of precinct map (note: these 53 are not included on the sign-in Roster as City eligible but there is no way to determine the number that received city or county ballots. In addition another 52 were misclassified County but did not try to vote as we can determine and are not here included. Therefore, 235 votes (182 + 53) are unaccounted for in the Nov 4 2014 reported election results. This story was posted on 2015-03-19 03:38:11
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