Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
As reported by VoteTrustUSA, “The Financial Services Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on “Ensuring the Integrity of Elections” on Wednesday March 7 at 2:00 PM in the Rayburn House Office Building. Witnesses for this hearing will be EAC chair Donnetta Davidson, former EAC commissioner Ray Martinez, Randolph Hite, Director, Information Technology Architecture and Systems, United States Government Accountability Office and Avi Rubin, Director of ACCURATE and professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University.”
David Allen of BlackBoxVoting.Com has stated about the possible sale of Diebold’s election arm, “It would be easier to sell Titanic brand cruise ships, or Hindenburg brand zeppelins than a Diebold voting machine company.”…
CEO promises word of its fate early this year LINK
The elections office is “proactive” on improving, panel says. LINK
Dutchess focus is education, aiding disabled LINK
Bucks candidates say county has failed to assure valid tallies. LINK
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A computer that can’t count would definitely be a hard sell.
NAtional: Financial Services Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Elections LINK
“Ensuring the Integrity of Elections”
Seems to be mostly pro-evoting witnesses. Shafting ahead… again.
(Randolph Hite is an unknown factor to me while Avi Rubin means well but still seems to have that implicit faith that “e-voting can be done right somehow”…)
How much are the electronic election machines worth as scrap iron, copper, etc … probably not worth the cost to take them to the dump.
With Sequoia up for sale, and now possibly Diebold, I would be very concerned about the quality of elections in the next few years. These companies will experience potentially severe staff shakeups – Sequoia and ES&S have recently laid off employees. They depend on loyal employees working horrendous hours during the runup to elections and the pending sale of one and possibly two major vendors does not bode well for quality elections.
So here’s a question: has the relentless stone-throwing from election activists helped election quality, or in actuality made it more difficult to conduct a quality election?
Ah, Tom Wilson and the “It’s all your fault!” argument.
We’ve been expecting you 😉
But that was a particularly unbright argument to essay… because now you must prove, somehow, a causative link between “e-voting” and “quality elections”…
… good luck with that.
Tom Wilson:
The less Diebold employees milling around Utah, the better. Most people in Utah are honest. It’s our leaders that are corrupt.