“Clean up politics. Elect Women.” Indeed.
In our second “New Female Secretary of State Kicks Ass, Cleans Up Mess Wrought by Male Predecessor” story of the day, California’s own Debra Bowen issued her draft criteria to be used for the first-of-its-kind, “top to bottom review” of all electronic voting systems she promised just before taking office. And the electronic voting machine companies ain’t gonna like ’em. But we do.
“The review is designed to restore people’s confidence in the integrity of our electoral process,” Bowen said in a statement issued yesterday to announce the criteria and her call for public input, “Every California voter has the right to have their vote counted as it was cast.”
Imagine that. Am I dreamin’?! The criteria are now posted here [PDF] for public comment.
And, oh, man…Here’s just a taste. From the “Security Standards” section…
The criteria are virtually the same for op-scans and central tabulating systems. And from the “Security Testing” section (Jeff “1000 to 1” Stone of Riverside County is not gonna like this)…
a. Red Teaming. The “red teaming” process is analogous to military training exercises in which the members of the “red team” are adversaries trying to defeat friendly, “blue team” forces. The red team exercise will be designed to simulate conditions in which a voting system might be vulnerable to attack in the actual cycle of manufacturing, programming, delivery, testing, storage, temporary storage and use in California elections. Initially, the team will approach the system knowing nothing of its source code. Knowledge of source code may be used in subsequent attack attempts. The objective will be to determine whether and to what degree it is possible to compromise the security of the voting system to interfere with the accurate recording of votes or alter the record of votes to change the result of an election.
Now we’re getting somewhere! And we’re also reminded why Bowen was the only candidate ever officially endorsed by The BRAD BLOG!
“I want input from as many people as possible — voting rights activists, county elections officials, and anyone else who wants to offer an opinion,” said Madame Secretary, putting the voting rights folks first for a refreshing change, in her statement.
Input on the draft criteria can be sent here: votingsystems@sos.ca.gov. The criteria for California, or as Diebold refers to it, “the world’s largest voting market,” will be finalized by April 6.
Elect two heroins from california (Bowen, Pelosi) and guess what …
It has begun. The psychological barrier has been broken. The House passed 218-212 the funding bill that includes a way out of Iraq. Good!
There is hope still …
Excellent! Thank you SoS Bowen and THANK YOU Brad!!
This has made my whole day, after the dropping of the congressional 50th suit.
2 women who were NOT elected to anything, and stink, are Condi Rice and Jean Schmidt. Jean Schmidt is assured of 51%-49% “victories” every 2 years…I think they have the results out for Schmidt’s 2008 election: “51%-49%—>Schmidt”.
I hope everyone notices that what Bowen posted is a ‘draft’, NOT the final requirements AND that she is -apparently- willing to ignore the fact that the Federal ‘qualifiers’ under the NASED and EAC have/did NOT ensure these voting systems met the applicable Federal standards.
And that the ‘draft’ does not address accuracy at all.
So put the comments in regarding these facts and see what the ‘final’ requirements turn out to be.
The ‘fat lady’ is a long way from singing.
Bruece, like she’s going to require all of this, and not require accuracy testing?
Comment #1 Dredd
Beauty–ful Bowen yes.
Pelosi –impeachment off the table and increasing the war funding -no way. The lie is that we can’t bring the troops home from bush’s illegal oil war – right now 2007 – safely.
The bushit administration are lying murderous criminals and need to be indicted starting with their 9/11 wargames. That is unless she or any other Congressmen can explain how 3 steel concrete building neatly fell down in their own footprint. You want a blowjob to impeach? Building #7 was a pure neo-con blow job and no arabs required.
Once impeachment was taken off the table, the fix was in. Continued funding of the war and allowing Bush the executive powers of war he grabbed after doing 9/11 was the icing on the cake.
Ghouls of the Thor Hearne ACVR scandal have arisen, and it isn’t even halloween yet.
We now have a link to the new US Attorney in Arkansas, who was Rove’s point man on “voter fraud” (anti-minority dems), and Rove and the ACVR conspiracy.
Check this out:
(Link Here, emphasis added).
Before last year’s election, I posted this:
It turns out that Bradblog was on the right trail when this was happening behind the scenes:
(Bradblog Article, emphasis added).
Ney is now in prison where Gonzales and Rove should go … after all Scooter will be there too.
Bottom Line: Rove ran the largest criminal election fraud organization in American history … directly from the White House!
Its a great start. We still have stop voter purges, intimidation and other techniques used to steal elections.
We all need to continue support Debra, Brad, Bev and other Patriots working towards truly fair elections.
Brantl,, again I ask people to remember that it is a ‘draft’ and the draft does NOT specify accuracy testing AND appears to ignore the issue of what has occurred re the Federal qualification process.
Please don’t assume such accuracy testing will be done, write and specify that such much be done and that the only accepted standards be those of the Federal standards and that extrapolation from a subset of volume is NOT the same as full volume testing per the Federal standards. While I’m fully supportive of SOS Bowen’s efforts, everyone should be aware that she does not support banning DRE’s and does support HR811 as per her testimony in Washington this past week.
Everyone should inspect the language in her criteria before celebrating. Like “untraceable vote tampering”. What is that? If it’s untraceable, then how does one know it ever existed? You can’t prove it existed because it’s “untraceable”.
Also, she says that she “may” initiate the process to withdraw certification. We don’t need “may” – we need “SHALL” initiate the process…. No loopholes!
If you want to make changes to her ‘draft criteria’, you have until March 30th.
I voted for Debra.
But. I’ll believe it when I see it. I figured she’d smack some heads together, and get this all done asap.
but were waiting still…………………
Should I hold my breath?