Lawsuit targets voting machines

[dogday]

A group is going to court to try to prevent the use of two types of electronic voting systems being acquired by most Arizona counties for use by disabled voters.

Voter Action, a Berkeley, Calif.-based not-for-profit, said the lawsuit it planned to file today in Maricopa County Superior Court would challenge the security and reliability of Diebold Election Systems and Sequoia electronic voting machines and contend they don't accommodate the needs of voters with a broad range of disabilities.

While most Arizona voters will mark paper ballots for reading by optical scanning devices, the Diebold and Sequoia machines are two of three touch-screen machines being acquired by counties to comply with a federal law requiring that each polling place have a means for disabled voters to cast ballots without assistance

The lawsuit will name Secretary of State Jan Brewer and some county election officials as defendants, Voter Action said.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0510votingmachines0510.html

[helderheid]

1. RECOMMENDED (I am yelling)

[shance]

2. This is great, but where is Elections Systems and Software (ES&S)??

It's musical electronic machines if we don't address that it is ALL the machines that are unsuitable for elections because they all demand software (and hardware) that can be both programmed and manipulated to change votes and the data is OWNED by the private companies who own the machines!

Its about as dysfunctional as a system can get.

Remember, its NOT just Diebold. That is just one of the many spokes on a very broken wheel.