Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“Florida’s Congressional District 13 race and the report of conflicts between the paper trail records and the electronic ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio are only two recent examples of how elections using DRE technology cannot be trusted and how confusing the technology can be to voters. Evidence overwhelmingly confirms that, even with the addition of a voter-verified paper audit trail, DREs cannot be made to serve our nation’s need for universal citizen enfranchisement. It would constitute a grievous error to further codify the use of DRE systems, as is currently done by the redefinition of “voter verified paper ballot” found at the beginning of HR 811’s Section 2(a)(1). We believe that all voters should have equal access to accurate, secure, meaningfully observable, and verifiable election systems. DREs have been touted as providing this kind of election system, but America’s experience with hundreds of documented DRE failures and thousands of voters disenfranchised by them proves otherwise. Any voter required to use a DRE is at once relegated to second-class status, given that other voters can vote on voter-marked paper ballots. Evidence shows that voter-marked paper ballots, combined with existing ballot-marking interfaces, provide both equity and parity to disabled and language minority voters in full compliance with ADA and HAVA.”…
State finds ‘flagrant violations,’ demands change immediately LINK
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If our vote is impaired, then to the extent our vote is impaired is the extent to which we are deprived of a democracy and to the extent that we are dictated to.
We are becoming known in the world community as rapists and plunderers and imprisioners without fair cause, in violation of treaties.
Our entire concept of our national identity is being challenged and even our psychological state of mind is being challenged.
Vote the republican and democratic senators and representatives, who violate our national sense of who we are, out of government forever and ever!
Here’s some old E-Mails to read ala Ms. Fuller (MIT) and Diebold, you can form your own opinion
For example one “My unsolicited two cents is that this is a crazy way to run an election. Expecting jurisdictions to train for and administer two systems is just nuts. It is the worst of a paper-based election with the worst of an electronic election. I wouldn’t worry too much about whether GEMS can receive results from two systems simultaneously. Even if that were the case, we could always fix GEMS. I’d be worried about whether poll workers can send them.”
http://fuller.mit.edu/diebold/l...dex.html#00038
BTW if you read any of the above link at all, Ken Clarks E-mails are by far the most entertaining and informative
I was watching debate and voting one HR 556. Rep Maloney, D from New York indicated (CSPAN) that electronic voting machines raise the spectre of national security.
RE post #4
HR 556 attempts to fix CFIUS (committee that oversees foreign investment in the US) which had approved the Dubai/UAE purchase of ports in the United States.
The new bill makes congressional oversite a reality rather than a wish.