Columnist Thomas Elias gets it right again. Today, he begins this way…
Nor does she appear impressed with safeguards that satisfied her appointed Republican predecessor Bruce McPherson. McPherson believed the presence of voter-verified paper trails from touch-screen and other new voting machines would guarantee accurate recounts wherever needed.
But in the only significant recount of the last year, just after a February special election for Orange County supervisor decided by less than 10 votes between two candidates each named Nguyen (pronounced “win”), paper trails weren’t even counted.
He then reports again on the Jeff “1000 to 1” Stone’s apparently-aborted “Riverside Hack Challenge,” the dangers of voting machine “sleepovers,” former CA SoS McPherson’s backing out of an invitation to Harri Hursti to hack Diebold systems in the state last year, and, most importantly, CA’s current SoS Debra Bowen’s important plan to finally properly test all voting systems used in elections.
If we didn’t know better — and that nothing useful to the MSM is ever reported by those crazy, unreliable, “left-wing bloggers” — we might have even thought that Elias is a regular BRAD BLOG reader or sumpin’ 😉
He concludes his column thusly:
Bingo. The full recommended column is here…
If you’d like to send a thanks for Elias’s consistent good work on this issue, he can be reached via email here…
“The machines are safe, the machines are secure, the machines are 100% accurate.” “You don’t need to watch.”
What, you want to TEST them? To quote the latest reaction by the Chairman of the RivCo Board ‘o Supes, “I think she’s nuts…” in referring to the Honorable Secretary of State Debra Bowen and her plan to do a “top to bottom” review of all e-voting and counting machines in CA. Can you imagine – actually testing the machines???
Everything is “safe, secure and accurate” so long as the curtain is never drawn. God forbid the curtain be drawn and REAL tests take place!
Jeffie Stone … where is our money? You ran your mouth, now pay up or shut up.