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[Edward Wesolowski <edwes AT idisplay.com>]

>Maybe there is still hope for the democratic process in the United States.
David: I'm reacting to a posting from a few days back, I realize, but I 
just saw a few min. of this "U.S. Election Assistance Commission" C-SPAN 2 
coverage and it put me in mind of the topic. ...caught my eye because there 
was a Dr. Brit Williams Kennesaw State University Center for Election 
Systems speaking. I'd read a paper he wrote, "Security in the Georgia 
Voting System."

OK, I agree there are problems (...and I have had the impression of an 
arrogant Diebold! (...I hate that:-(

The issue has to do with security, but not with "The machines are bad" so 
we should dump them, these so called Direct Record Electronic voting 
machines.  Electronic voting machines are inevitable (Yikes, did I just say 
that?). Are ATM's inevitable? Are bank accounts online inevitable? Security 
and paper trail need to be dealt with, totally. I don't think we can expect 
that these electronic voting machines will just go away. Is that what 
you're saying?
Dude, what's the issue here?
Ed W.

P.S. DRE's have been used in parts of NC since 1997. Voters & election 
folks both seem to like them.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Minton
Sent: 5/3/2004 10:01 AM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] California Bans E-Vote Machines


From Wired.com on Friday:


http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html

"California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley ended five months of
speculation and announced Friday that he was decertifying all electronic
touch-screen voting machines in the state due to security concerns and lack
of voter confidence.

He also said that he was passing along evidence to the state's attorney
general to bring criminal and civil charges against voting-machine-maker
Diebold Election Systems for fraud."

Also

"Counties will not be able to purchase any new e-voting machines unless the
machines can produce a voter-verified paper trail that voters can use to
authenticate that their vote was recorded accurately. This pushes up a
previous deadline Shelley put forth in December when he mandated that all
new voting machines purchased after June 2005 would have to produce a paper
trail."



Maybe there is still hope for the democratic process in the United States.

David

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