Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
States are now beginning to question whether their voting systems were originally inspected and tested by Ciber and whether the quality of that testing should be questioned. / Meanwhile the EAC has sent their commissioners out to handle damage control. Commissioners are denying the existence of negative reports against Ciber and denying that Ciber has any problems beyond what they think is normal for an accreditation process. They, however, are not explaining why two other labs were accredited almost immediately and why Ciber’s process has taken 5 months longer and is still not complete. / Another key member of the House of Representatives has weighed in on the disputed Florida Congressional election, saying that not only the litigants but the House itself would benefit from more open discovery. On Thursday, the incoming Chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, which has the responsibility for evaluating any House election contest, submitted a letter to the Florida First District Court of Appeal expressing concern with the inability of the Plaintiffs to pursue their claims….
NAtional: Electronic Voting Machine Tests Halted LINK
NAtional: Feds Failed to Warn on Flawed E-Vote Lab LINK
NAtional: Vote-test crew under fire LINK
NAtional: Feds: Voting system is not doomed LINK
NAtional: Fifteen Republicans Squeaked by in 2006, Analysis Shows LINK
NAtional: Press Release – Election Experts Offer 14 Recommendations for Federal Legislation LINK
CA: Bowen plans full review of voting machines LINK
CA: New CA Secretary of State Bowen to Review Every Voting System in Use From ‘Top to Bottom’, Will Consider Decertification of Machines Approved by Predecessor McPherson! LINK
CA: Riverside County – California County Official Who Dared ‘Hackers’ to Manipulate Voting System Gets Desperate! LINK
CA: Riverside County – State official petitioned on e-voting challenge LINK
CA: Riverside County – State’s OK sought in test of e-voting LINK
FL: ‘No vote’ choice would be on ballots under new bill LINK
FL: FL-13 – Vote Still Contested As Congress Convenes LINK
FL: FL-13 – House Encourages Florida Court to Allow Access to E-voting Source Code, Hardware LINK
FL: FL-13 – ES&S vote machines skipped a step [FL-13] – promised at Election website LINK
FL: FL-13 – UPDATE: New U.S. House Administration Comm. Chair Sends Letter to FL Court, Gives Notice Concerning Release of Touch-Screen Voting Machine Source Code in Jennings/Buchanan Election! LINK
FL: Martin County – Voters: We want a paper trail LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Ciber Inc. at center of touch-screen controversy LINK
IN: Posner on Photo ID: The Unbearable Cleverness of Being Wrong LINK
MD: Election tech company under scrutiny LINK
MI: Oakland County — Editorial – Clerks deserve applause for questioning voting machines LINK
NY: New York State May Suspend Tests of New Voting Machines LINK
NY: Firm that tests voting machines not accredited; state cites inadequacies LINK
WV: Jefferson County – Election woes prompt state audit LINK
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States are now beginning to question whether their voting systems were originally inspected and tested by Ciber and whether the quality of that testing should be questioned. / Meanwhile the EAC has sent their commissioners out to handle damage control. Commissioners are denying the existence of negative reports against Ciber and denying that Ciber has any problems beyond what they think is normal for an accreditation process. They, however, are not explaining why two other labs were accredited almost immediately and why Ciber’s process has taken 5 months longer and is still not complete. / Another key member of the House of Representatives has weighed in on the disputed Florida Congressional election, saying that not only the litigants but the House itself would benefit from more open discovery. On Thursday, the incoming Chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, which has the responsibility for evaluating any House election contest, submitted a letter to the Florida First District Court of Appeal expressing concern with the inability of the Plaintiffs to pursue their claims….
I smell oversight in the air. Not ozone,.. but governmental oversight,.. it has been a long time coming. Fresh, sweet fragrance of a Spring meadow of the flower – of governmental oversight, examination, and review. The Executive and Administrative branch of government must now justify it’s actions. Georgie the spoiled frat-boy ain’t going to like this scrutiny.
John was apparently under-quoted in the article, “Voting system is not doomed”
“In Colorado, there were no reported problems with electronic machines switching votes – or not recording significant numbers of votes, said John Gideon, executive director of the nonpartisan VotersUnite.”
They didn’t ask you about all the pollbook & machine failures reported at the voting centers then, eh ? 😀