County's certified election results wrong   (CA)

The Times-Standard  04 December 2008

The results from the Nov. 4 election that the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors certified this week are incomplete, Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich said today.

Crnich said almost 200 ballots were inexplicably ped from the final election results. The error did not change the outcome of any of the races, Crnich said.

The discrepancy, Crnich said, was discovered through the Humboldt Transparency Project, a program where images of each ballot cast in the election are posted online with sorting software to enable anyone with a home computer to conduct recounts as they see fit.

Crnich said it ped ballots were traced back to a problem with the Diebold GEMS software the county uses to count votes. She said the problem was reported to the California Secretary of State's Office and to Diebold.