Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
According to a NewsHour report, some county election officials in California believe that changes ordered by Secretary of State Debra Bowen, including decertifying some voting machines, may put the integrity of upcoming elections in jeopardy. Seriously. This despite Bowen’s explanation for her actions:
Steve Weir, an election official from Contra Costa County, explains why election officials are concerned with Bowen’s directives not to use some newly purchased machines:
However, Stanford professor David Dill backs Bowen and proclaims, “It seems that there is almost a national consensus that we have a serious problem”. Dan Ashby, of the Election Defense Alliance, agrees that the use of voting machines is a dangerous endeavor:
Voting machines pose another, often overlooked, problem beyond the technical problems most often associated with such machines. Mainly, voting machines have led to a vast public distrust of elections. According to Bowen, the lack of trust in voting machines has caused people to “check out and not participate” and is thus, “a major threat to democracy”.
Alan, in case you hadn’t heard:
San Diego, CA, January 16, 2008 ““ Psephos, a San Diego-based election integrity group, revealed today that it has confirmed Kern and Riverside Counties are supporting San Diego County’s lawsuit against Secretary of State Debra Bowen. This news, released informally by the Secretary of State’s office yesterday, follows last week’s news that San Bernardino County voted to support the lawsuit. Taken as a whole these developments confirm a coordinated effort among County officials, unelected Registrars of Voters and election systems vendors to defy the Secretary of State’s efforts to restore California voters’ confidence in their elections.
Also, if Brad’s post about Diebold indicating that a 1% error rate is ‘expected’ from the opscans, then the machines ARE NOT HAVA complaint re ‘error rate’ ; see here:
utahcountvotes.org/docs/error-rates-HAVA.pdf
Alan,
I watched the entire clip. Since PBS has moved to the right they promote right wing ideology.
The evidence is wholly in SoS Bowen’s favor, and the evidence will have its day in court.
Why isn’t the MSM telling the public that Professor Dill is a second generation revealer of these dangers?
Instead they should tell the truth that electronic voting problems, exactly as Dill explained, go back some forty years now.
Might this be a problem that the SoS did not communicate adequately the urgency of her decision with the various counties?
They shouldn’t rely on technology when problems like these are happening
What must be understood is that the MSM can edit any footage they record to present the tone that they want to convey. Clearly this was an attack on Biowen, masked to look impartial.