Susan S. Bernecker is a former Republican candidate for the Jefferson Parish

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

Jefferson Parish is a parish in Louisiana, United States that includes most of the suburbs of New Orleans. The seat of parish government is Gretna....

 City Council in suburban New Orleans. She was defeated 33% to 58% by Nick Giambelluca, nephew

Nephew

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 of the Jefferson Parish election supervisor, Tony Giambelluca.
After her loss and under the protection of state law to inspect the voting machine

Voting machine

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s, Bernecker went to the warehouse

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 where the Sequoia Pacific computers had been taken. There a producer videotape

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d Bernecker as she pressed the button next to her name on the ballot

Ballot

A ballot is a device used to record choices made by voters. Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots are not shared. In the simplest elections, a ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on which each voter writes in the name of a candidate, but governmental elections use pre-printed to protect the...

 which registered the name of her opponent on a LED

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 screen. Bernecker checked twelve machines and her name appeared displayed only a third of the time.

Bernecker was a participant in the Hursti Hack

Hursti Hack

The Hursti Hack was a successful attempt to alter the votes recorded on a Diebold optical scan voting machine. The hack is named after Harri Hursti.- Participants :The participants were:*Ion Sancho, Supervisor of Elections, Leon County, Florida....

 held in Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, and is the 128th largest city in the United States. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2010, the population recorded by...

, Florida

Florida

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, and featured in Hacking Democracy

Hacking Democracy

Hacking Democracy is a 2006 documentary film by producer Robert Carrillo Cohen and producer / directors Russell Michaels and Simon Ardizzone, shown on HBO...

, an HBO documentary

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 on the errors of the Diebold Election Systems Accu-Vote OS 1.94w (optical scan) voting machine.