Election commission orders top voting machine vendor to correct misleading claims
This isn’t the first time Election Systems & Software has faced accusations of making fabricated or misleading assertions about its voting machines.
08/13/2020 05:00 PM EDT
The federal Election Assistance Commission has rebuked the nation’s top voting-machine maker over marketing materials that the panel says deceptively implied the company’s voting machines are EAC-certified.
The commission admonished Election Systems & Software over promotional literature and statements on its website that appear to assert, falsely, that voting machines the company sells with embedded modems have been sanctioned by the EAC under its testing and certification program. The statements put ES&S in violation of the EAC’s testing and certification rules, the commission wrote in a previously unreported March 20 letter to the company that POLITICO obtained, and directed ES&S to revise the literature and notify customers that the systems are not certified.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/13/election-voting-machine-misleading-claims-394891