BBV: E-Vote Machine Certification Criticized - Great AP Report

[althecat]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/9468198.htm?1c

Posted on Sun, Aug. 22, 2004





E-Vote Machine Certification Criticized

BILL POOVEY

Associated Press


HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - The three companies that certify the nation's voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in November.

Despite concerns over whether the so-called touchscreen machines can be trusted, the testing companies won't say publicly if they have encountered shoddy workmanship.

They say they are committed to secrecy in their contracts with the voting machines' makers - even though tax money ultimately buys or leases the machines.

"I find it grotesque that an organization charged with such a heavy responsibility feels no obligation to explain to anyone what it is doing," Michael Shamos, a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist and electronic voting expert, told lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/9468198.htm?1c

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If AP is true to form then this report is likely to end up all over the place... which is great since it is such a great report.... and it makes the decision to certify Diebold in California increasingly odd....

[KoKo]

1. Interesting ...thanks for the read on this...

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