BradBlog: CACEO Goes Coo-Coo Over New 'Top-to-Bottom Review' Criteria for Voting Systems in CA

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CACEO Goes Coo-Coo Over New 'Top-to-Bottom Review' Criteria for Voting Systems in California

Official Comments from CA Election Clerks on Proposed Test Criteria by SoS Bowen Reveal They Are in a Panic...And Are Clueless About the One Thing That Truly Matters to Voters...

Brad Friedman

3/26/2007

California's election clerks --- or at least those who are members of the California Association of Clerks and Elections Officials (CACEO) --- are freaking out in light of CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen's newly proposed draft criteria for her promised, "first-of-its-kind top-to-bottom review" of all electronic voting systems in the state.

Bowen's most welcome and strictly drawn draft criteria, as we reported last week, is open for public comment through April 6th, after which testing will begin on systems which will lose their certification for 2008 if they do not meet the refreshingly strict standards to be reviewed (finally!)

In a document dated today and obtained by The BRAD BLOG, the CACEO --- who worked very hard, if unsuccessfully, to see Bowen's irresponsible predecessor, the hapless Bruce McPherson, be re-elected --- filed their comments on Bowen's test criteria. And they don't like 'em. They don't like 'em one bit.

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In their list of "basic tenets of elections" as embarrassingly included in their comments to Bowen on what the the "Scope of Review" ought to be in her testing, they leave out the one most important tenet of all --- underscoring yet again how clueless these folks must be about what the voters actually need in a democracy:

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