D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh, raising questions about the performance of Sequoia Voting Systems in September's primary election, wants a judge to order the company to adhere to the council's subpoena power.
As chairman of an investigative committee, Cheh (D-Ward 3) served the California-based company with a subpoena to get information about how thousands of phantom votes appeared in initial vote tallies. The company runs the city's elections systems.
Sequoia and an internal panel at the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics found that human error and glitches contributed to the problems but neither body pinpointed the causes.
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