Tonight Lou Dobbs completely gets it - he even goes so far as to
predict that Georgia's Secretary of State, Cathy Cox (AKA Cathy Diebold)
will win the election for Governor on the paperless voting machines she picked out.
He says that if he were betting... "I'd bet on, is it secretary of state Cox in this upcoming election? She gets to certify the results, decide on the machines, while running for governor."
Lou interviewed Johns Hopkins E-voting Expert Avi Rubin, Donna Price of Georgians
for Verified Voting and John Fortuin, Defenders of Democracy as guests!
All were excellent.
John Fortuin finds that Diebold comes up quite short to financial industry standards:
JOHN FORTUIN, DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY: I have 20 years experience programming computers mostly for the financial sector, and the standards that are used in the financial sector are wholly absent from the Diebold voting system.
Avi Rubin points out the conflicts of interest with an election official
overseeing their own election, calls for transparency:
AVI RUBIN, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: That's a terrible conflict of interest. I think elections need to be run by unbiased, independent parties. And such things do not exist, what we need are very transparent voting mechanisms so no one has to bring into doubt anybody's motives or behaviors.
Donna Price drives the transparency and auditability factor home:
DONNA PRICE, GEORGIANS FOR VERIFIED VOTING: It is not political. It is not with Cathy Cox. It is about making sure that the election is legitimate for Georgia...
Voting in a democracy is not about trusting that behind the curtain individuals will do the right thing. It's about security, transparency and auditability. It's about checks and balances. And Georgia's voting system fails on all counts.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/20/ldt.01.html
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