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Bruce Funk - Utah's Tina Peters

“As an election official, I thought it was my duty to ensure the integrity of elections.”

Bruce Funk was the County Clerk of Emery County for 23 years.

He had been using optical scanners for his county elections. By early 2005, he was told by the Lieutenant Governor that HAVA1 requirements could be met by having some additional equipment for helping voters with special physical challenges to vote.

Then there was a change in state government leadership, and county clerks had to accept Diebold machines to run their elections. Bruce accepted the delivery of Diebold machines, with some reluctance, in December of 2005.

He asked for a qualified technician to be present for acceptance testing, and was told by that technician that on election day, there would be some problems and “we’re just going to have to work through them.”

He looked at the touchscreen Diebold Machines in advance of the 2006 election and saw low memory problems. Eventually, he was told that the low memory problems were due to a difference in machine fonts and multi-language support on the machines.

Not getting resolution from Diebold, he had other computer experts look at the machines and uncovered a host of additional technical problems.

In March of 2006, Bruce explained to Emery County’s governing board the flaws of the Diebold machines. He was accused of causing more than $40,000 damage to the Emery County machines.

Diebold attorneys flew in several days later to meet with a group of Utah state government officials. Bruce was not invited to the meeting. He had been under pressure to resign, but decided he wasn’t going to do that.

After that meeting, Bruce was dismissed from his position. The Emery County Commission Chairman said that Bruce would not be allowed to document what the Diebold machines were doing.

Diebold officials downplayed the problems to other election venues as a “screen calibration issue.” After his dismissal, Bruce was treated as a pariah in the election process community for making these problems visible, despite receiving support from all over the world for his attempts to expose machine flaws.

At an event Bruce Funk spoke at in 2015 in Salt Lake City, Joycelynn Straight of Utah warned of three red flags we should look for in election officials.

"Trust me!"

"You're destroying public confidence!"

When the election process becomes less open, less transparent, access to records is slow-walked or denied. When you are charged exhorbitant prices for records or get them too late to ask for an election recount.

Diebold eventually changed its name to Premiere Election Solutions, then it was sold to Election Systems & Software (ES&S). ES&S machines are used all over the country today, including most counties of Utah.

You can watch a 2 hour presentation from 2015 on Youtube. You will be amazed how long Utah's high ranking officials have resorted to these tactics we still experience.