{"id":6901,"date":"2009-02-09T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2009-02-09T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T01:00:53","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-february-09-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For February 09, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Premier\/Diebold has filed a lawsuit against SysTest Labs. The voting machine vendor claims that SysTest’s loss of EAC accreditation in the middle of testing on the newest Premier voting system has wreaked havoc on Premier’s business. This should be an interesting suit. <\/p>\n

“Even though reports from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and dozens of computer security experts strongly and unanimously warn of insurmountable threats to the privacy and security of ballots cast over the Internet, the Washington State legislature is proposing “\u201c and fast-tracking “\u201c a bill to allow Internet voting for its military and overseas voters.”\u009d “VotersUnite does not believe in using military and overseas voters as guinea pigs in a voting scheme that has already been determined by experts to be an “essentially impossible”\u009d task given the current architecture of the Internet.”\u009d …<\/p>\n

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