The threat of paperless verification systems is now rearing its head
once again in North Carolina. Last year, it was the VoteHERE device being pushed by Guilford County NC Election Director
George Gilbert, anti paper activist.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/s9/index.php?/archives/8-Thwarting-democracy-in-Guilford-County.html Gilbert led a lobbying effort against our verified voting law since 2004.
He organized other election officials and county commissioners against us.
http://www.ncvoter.net/guilford.htmlThis year, Gilbert tries a fresh approach - the Ted Selker audio verification
system. Famous/Infamous Ted Selker is promoting an audio verification system.
The NC State Board of Elections LOVES
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
Ted Selker, aka "Mr. Gadget"
Last year the NC State Board of Elections got a pilot program
for independent verification to be tested in volunteer counties,
slipped into our law in 05, as a test.
The test of alternative or paperless verification systems,
aka the
"Rube Goldberg Voting System" -
didn't happen for many reasons. (Thankfully).
We still have many obstacles: Election officials who love paperless voting, who respect the Election Center,
the EAC, and election officials like Linda Lamone. These entities,
have never seen a bad idea for Elections that they didn't just love.
And they are the Fox in the Henhouse
If we do not make paperless voting ILLEGAL across the US,
then we will lose our ground, even the states that have
VVPB laws.
NIST, when recommending "software independent" (SI) systems, didn't say PAPER.IF they meant that voting systems must have a voter verified paper BALLOT,
they would have said so.
Instead, NIST left the door open to paperless verification systems.