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Alaska: 2004 Electronic Election Data Was Changed in 2006

By Kay Brown, Alaska Democratic Party
October 05, 2006

Division of Elections Asked to Explain Changes

The Alaska Democratic Party today asked the Division of Elections to
explain why changes were made in July of 2006 to the electronic database
that contains the results of the 2004 General Election.

A review of the audit trail of the GEMS database for the 2004 elections
shows that modifications were made to the database on July 12 and July
13, 2006.

The Democratic Party recently obtained the electronic GEMS file by suing
the Division of Elections in State Superior Court. The Division of
Elections had refused for more than nine months to release the public
records, but did so late last month just before a hearing was scheduled
to begin in the case.

"We do not understand why 2004 election results would be manually
modified in 2006 after the complaint was filed asking that you produce
the database," Jake Metcalfe, chair of the Alaska Democratic Party, said
in a letter to Division of Elections Director Whitney Brewster. "Data
from the 2004 election may have been altered," Metcalfe said.

One of the modifications made in 2006 appears to alter data for House
District 5. In that district's race for the State House, Democrat Tim
June lost by 59 votes to Republican Bill Thomas. [see audit log of GEMS
database]

The Democratic Party also questioned the 293 manual entries that were
made to the electronic file between 11/2/04 and 12/2/04. [see attached
audit log of GEMS showing examples]. According to the same audit log,
the Primary Election for 2004 had 17 manual entries.

"Two hundred and ninety-three is an incredibly high number of manual
entries," said Jim March, a consultant and member of the Board of
Directors of Black Box Voting who examined the GEMS database.



"Manual entries usually happen when a ballot is too crumpled to scan or
is marked in blood, crayon or in an unusual manner. A small number of
manual entries is normal. In an election about your size, approximately
20 or so manual entries would be common. Having 293 manual entries for
the General Election is completely off the charts, while the 17 manual
entries that were made for the Primary is within the normal range. The
high number of manual entries is troubling since several elections were
decided by less than 100 votes," March said.

One of the problems revealed by examining the GEMS database is that
every individual who modified the file had the same "admin" User ID,
March said.



Failing to assign each individual who has access to the database a
unique User ID negates an important safeguard, he said.



"We now know the Alaska Division of Elections isn't tracking which human
being performs which action on the central database of votes, including
a startlingly high number of manual entries of vote data.  If a person's
actions in the election aren't tracked, personal accountability fails.
This is a classic flaw in the Diebold product," March said.

The Democratic Party filed new public records requests asking for a copy
of the GEMS database as it existed before the changes made in July,
2006, and for the name and affiliation of each person who did any manual
modification to the 2004 General Election GEMS database at any time,
what data that person entered manually, and why those changes were made
or those data were entered manually.

March said he has not yet been able to determine why the votes from the
2004 election in the district-by-district reports do not match the
statewide summary. "First we need to get the correct version of the
database. The one that the Division of Elections gave the Democratic
Party appears to have been altered after the fact," he said.

According to the Division of Elections' vote reports that were produced
by the state's Diebold computer system and are posted on the Division's
official web site, a far larger number of votes were cast than the
official totals reported in the statewide summary. In the case of
President George Bush’s votes, the district-by-district totals add up to
292,267, but his official total was only 190,889, a difference of
101,378 votes. In the U.S. Senate race, Lisa Murkowski received 226,992
votes in the district-by-district totals, but her official total was
only 149,446, a difference of 77,546 votes.

In 20 of the 40 State House Districts, more ballots were cast than there
are registered voters in the district, according to information on the
state's web site. In 16 election districts, the voter turnout percentage
shown is over 200%.

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