Today’s featured article is a warning from Greg Gordon
of McClatchy News in which he points to the fact that the
recent disclosure of flawed software in Premier/Diebold
machines points directly to a system of testing and
certifying voting systems that was broken. Gordon points
out, “NASED watched over the issuance of "qualified"
reports from Independent Testing Laboratories, but with
little control over the testing. The vendors secretly
negotiated payments with the labs, helped design the tests,
got to see the results first and only shared the codes
driving their software with three NASED technical experts
who signed non-disclosure agreements.”
All it took was
a disclosure by Premier/Diebold that all of their voting
systems of the past ten years have potentially lost votes
and the media has woken up to the issue. Of course, some
election officials are just too wedded to their vendors.
Officials in South Carolina and West Virginia proudly
proclaim that while states around them are doing the right
thing by changing from DRE voting to paper based systems
they are going to stand firm behind their paperless voting
systems, ignoring the facts in doing so. ...
Featured - National: Warning on voting
machines reveals oversight failure LINK
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National:
Opinion - Casting doubt on a voting plan LINK
Ohio:
PERSPECTIVE: Spat over Ohio voting law about politics LINK
Ohio: Ohio
elections officials preparing for 80% turnout in November LINK
South Carolina:
State bucks trend, keeps voting machines SC election
officials have faith in systems LINK
Tennessee: Touch
screens on way out in TN Optical-scanning voting
machines to be in use by 2010 LINK
Pennsylvania:
Guest column: Voter ID laws are a national catastrophe LINK
Pennsylvania:
Westmoreland County - Elections inspector gets role in
documentary LINK
West Virginia:
W.Va. counties sticking with touch-screen voting, despite
troubles elsewhere LINK
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