Electionline Boosts GuvWorld and the Voter Confidence Committee

Electionline is a bit staid. As such, I'm surprised to see them run this story on today's news list . You see, the article publication date is March 24, 2006, so why'd they list it today?

Oh. By the way... Humboldt: VCC Rejects Results of CA Primary

Saved by VotePAD?

Low-tech disabled-accessible voting device pursued despite Diebold certification

Friday, March 24, 2006

By Charles Douglas
HUMBOLDT SENTINEL

EUREKA – Election insiders and voting security critics alike seemed relieved at the Mar. 2 Elections Advisory Committee confab as a new disabled-accessible balloting apparatus, the Voting-on-Paper Assistive Device (VotePAD), was introduced. Their reaction led Clerk/Recorder Carolyn Crnich to recommend to the Board of Supervisors on Friday they spend nearly $214,000 to purchase the VotePAD system, with hopes of being reimbursed with federal funds made available by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).

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Local activists from the Voter Confidence Committee, while celebrating the decision not to purchase new Diebold machines, still had questions regarding the continuing use of the AccuVote optical scan ballot system, preferring hand-counted ballots.

“The primary objection is that our votes are recorded by optical scanners that use illegal interpreter code,” Voter Confidence Committee organizer Dave Berman stated on his GuvWurld blog (guvwurld.blogspot.com). “There is no basis for confidence in the results reported once the date has been converted into the non-human readable, proprietary AccuBasic programming language of Diebold…while VotePAD is far superior to touch screen machines, the method of counting renders it a false alternative.”

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Her initial estimate of $175,000 was exceeded by the eventual purchase price of $213,980 ($199,515 plus tax), but far less than early estimates of installing a similar number of TSX machines from Diebold as earlier recommended by Crnich.

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http://www.humboldtsentinel.com/060324f.htm

I have been pestering Doug Chapin, and definitly people at VTUSA have
been writing them.

They were slanting so heavily in favor of DRES and paperless voting that
I looked up the contact at Pew Cheritable Trust and started emailing
him!

Also, sent them some VTUSA articles.

I suppose that folks could send news to ElectionLine,
you know the news that they usually ignore.

Maybe they will take more baby steps in the right direction.

Also point out that some of their sources and advisors
(Like R. Doug Lewis - R is for wRong) are not credentialed
experts and make no sense.

www.electionline.org go there to email them

And kudos to the Humboldt Sentinel and reporter Charles Douglas for coverage of this vitally important matter!

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