FINALLY: Someone is Telling the U.S. Gov't Where to Put Its E-voting

[kster]

April 25, 2008
by Bev Harris

Black Box Voting was invited to submit comments into the record for the United States Election Assistance Commission's Round Table, which featured and agenda entirely devoted to a what is basically a celebration of computerized vote-counting. We took this opportunity to tell it like it is.

To our great surprise and joy, so did others, including Dr. Rebecca Mercuri and Brad Friedman. Portions of some of their testimony will follow. Here are the formal comments from Black Box Voting:

EAC VOTING ADVOCATES ROUND TABLE: April 24, 2008

I have accepted your invitation to submit the following comments to be entered into the record on behalf of Black Box Voting, by its founder, Bev Harris.

To members of the EAC and participants of the Round Table:

The entire premise of technology-based elections is based on support for the "verifiable voting" concept. But before designing technology for elections, we must first determine how it will empower citizen controls, enabling the counting of votes in public rather than counting them in secret. We do not consent to any form of secret vote counting, administered and controlled by government insiders and their vendors.

SNIP..."We do not consent."


SNIP...FROM DR. REBECCA MERCURI TO THE EAC: "Another VVSG rewrite, novel designs, or more extensive testing cannot begin to solve these problems until the voters' demands for Transparency, reliability, security, accuracy and auditability requirements have first been appropriately defined and addressed. So long as the goal of certification trumps the need to ensure election integrity, the resulting systems, no matter whose imprimatur they bear, will be invalid and must be rejected."

FROM BRAD FRIEDMAN TO THE EAC, of the BradBlog: "The blizzard of technical specifications serves only to obscure the fact that, even if such specifications are followed to the satisfaction of federal testers, it will likely continue to remain next to impossible for citizen voters to determine for themselves whether or not reported election results are truly accurate.



http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/genera_bev_harr_080425_finally_3a_someone_is_.htm

[cui bono]

1. k & r

[magellan]

2. K&R

[Trajan]

3. As ugly as the 'Bev Wars' got here in DU ....

I am still quite thankful for her tireless efforts on behalf of Black Box Voting issues ...

Thanks Bev ....

Oh .. and thanks Kster and Bradblog too ...

[Stevepol]

4. The EAC will pay not the slightest attention of course.